2WEEKS OUT
Listen to your doctor and your body. We have all this new found freedom and we want to go nuts with it...like winning the lottery. Soon the mental side of WLS will be harder than the physical side. People will treat you different...You soon will have to go up to old friends and family and reintroduce yourself...They will not know you!! I tell people the closest way to explaining what is happening is like an amusement park ride. You won't know what is around the next corner...It happens that fast. Hang on for the ride. Brian
I to am 2 weeks out and I know what you mean. The only thing holding me back right now is I have this G-Tube in it lets me know when I'm overdoing it, plus I am nervous about getting an infection so I'm careful to keep it clean.
I walk 30-45 minutes twice a day. I want to do more but can't. I was told no BLT's(Bending, Lifting or Twisting) for 4-6 weeks.
I walk 30-45 minutes twice a day. I want to do more but can't. I was told no BLT's(Bending, Lifting or Twisting) for 4-6 weeks.
Mike 
Part of what got us to the point of morbid obesity in the first place is a personality that tends towards over-indulgence. We are no different psychologically than other addicts we just chose to doctor ourselves with food as opposed to alcohol, narcotics, or the big V. It sounds to me like now that you've been temporarily taken out of the over-indulgence game as far as food is concerned, you are transfering it to exercise. Which isn't neccessarily a bad thing except for the fact that you could injure yourself severely at the stage you're at right now. In my journey, and I'm 17.5 months into it now, I found that you have to constantly fight that urge to over-indulge and find ways to be happy and satisfied with a normal amount of activity or food. I've gone through various binges along the way and have had to and am having to deal with them as I go. But I think it's important for us mentally in the long term to learn about not giving in to our urge to go above and beyond what we know is normal behavior, because at some point in time, and I'm already there, you'll be able to over-indulge with food again. And you want to have some weapons handy when that time comes.
Please don't jog again for a couple of months. That's crazy as ****
Please don't jog again for a couple of months. That's crazy as ****
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking....... If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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