Day 1 of my 21 day exercise plan
OK... I am 5 months post surgery and other than walking 2-3 miles a few times a week I haven't been exercising.
I went to see the PT yesterday. Two months ago my weight loss ratio was 0.8 lbs of fat: 1.0 lbs muscle. Not ideal but not bad. Now I am losing 1.0 lbs of muscle : 0.5 lbs of fat . Very bad.
So... I am trying to commit to exercise with short term goals. Hopefully seeing improvement how I look will encourage more exercise. I know that seeing myself in the mirror (with my cloths on) definitely keeps me on track food wise.
Today was day one of my three week plan. I walked five miles. Tomorrow I will go to my first cross fitness class.
I have an appointment to get rechecked by PT in 24 days.
Yay exercise! It's awesome for overall health - not so awesome for weight loss though.
One of the things that helped me, and that I really recommend, is to give everything the "four attempt" rule. I realized quickly that the first 2-3 tries at something are horrible. You feel stupid, uncoordinated, ungainly, and like everyone is judging you. I find that this normally subsides around the 4th attempt, so I forced myself to give every new thing 4 tries before giving up on it.
VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)
Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170
TrendWeight | Food Blog (sort of functional) | Journal (down for maintenance)
Band-RNY revision age 50 5'4" HW 260 SW: 244 (bf healthy range 23-35%) bf 23.7% (at 137lbs) cw range 135-138.lbl with butt lift and mastoplexy March 23, 2018...2.5lbs removed.
Pre-op-16lbs (size 18/20...244) M1-16lbs (size 18...228) M2-15.6lbs (size 16/18...212.4) M3-10lbs (size 16..202.4) M4-11.4lbs (size 14...191) M5-10.8lbs (size 12...180.2) M6-8.4 (size 8/10...171.8) M7-6.4 (size 8...165.4 lbs) M8-11.6 (size 6...153.8) M9-5.6 (size 4/6...148.2) M10-5.8 (size 4....142.4) M11-4 (size 2/4...138.4) Surgiversary -1 (size 2/4...137.4) M13-2.6 (size 2/4...134.8) M14 (size 2/4...134.8) M15 (size 2...135) M16 (size 2...131.4) M17 (size 2...135) M18 (size 2...135) M19 (size 2...138) M20 (size 2...135) M21 (size 2...138)
Haha. I did my 4 class rule for Zumba too and ended up enjoying it quite a bit.
The "Pound" class I tried, however? Nope. My back hurt SO MUCH after the first one that I never went back.
VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)
Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170
TrendWeight | Food Blog (sort of functional) | Journal (down for maintenance)
All my uppity "ladies who lunch" friends take Zumba out here.
Tried it three times -- basically I determined that I'd rather use a chainsaw to insert contact lenses than suffer through another one of those classes. The only class that I found to be worse than than Zumba was Hot Yoga.
Hot Yoga is for the same people who consider kale a viable substitute for potato chips. I mean, I don't hate kale, but they sure are not chips. Hot Yoga was one of Dante's forgotten levels of hell.
"What you eat in private, you wear in public." --- Kat
