VSG Maintenance Group
Thursday July 14.
125.4 - exactly the same. Only got in 30 minutes on the treadmill yesterday. Feeling super tired today. Just woke up and feel like I need a nap. I have a haircut scheduled in an hour but may nap when I get back home. I'm sure I am still trying to get used to the time difference!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
I'm still feeling post-vacation fatigue, too. While In Alaska I was GO GO GO. Since home, I have easily made my 7 hours target sleep and have had a couple of nights at 11 hours or greater! Vacation is hard work.
HW:361 SW:304 (VSG 12/04/2014)Mo 1:-32 Mo 2:-13.5 Mo 3: -13.5 Mo 4 -9.5 Mo 5: -15 Mo 6: -15 Mo 7: -13.5 Mo 8: -17 Mo 9: -13 Mo 10: -12.5 11/3/2015 Healthy BMI Reached! Mo 11: -9 Mo 12: -8 12/27/2015 Goal Weight Reached!
124.0 On The Dot. No after dinner grazing. That makes 3 days! Skipping the evening graze-fest felt a more comfortable last night although I laid in bed feeling hungry. I woke up hungry, too. Maybe I AM hungry? Always so hard to know for sure.
I am green eyed for a zillion reasons but weight is my most ancient measure of my worth. True confession: My good days are when my weight is south of target and On The Dot; but I like this best when I weigh less than Paula. This doesn't come from the best place in me but I feel safe in confessing this to all of you. (I am unable, however, to make eye contact with Paula.) I haven't, yet, crossed over into a really dark spot of hoping Paula gains weight....that is somewhat redeeming, right? Right????
Devon, your digging deep into the whys of your eating are worthy of my green-eyed gaze. I don't have the fortitude to dig that deep. I keep fingers crossed that learning from your experience (which has clear crossovers with mine) plus practicing new behaviors is enough.
Something I DO love thinking about is how to get more fit and I totally love reading about your fitness program and progress. Honestly, man, your fitness rocks. Do you feel this awesomeness in your bones? You should!
I promise to post my macro's, etc for a couple of days in the next day or two. I am embarrassed to admit that I am again out of the habit of tracking on MFP. I am taking a page out of your book by plating first and then measuring so I can more accurately report what I have been doing. (At least I think that was your strategy a while back....)
Let's all feel our awesomeness today!
Shel
(PS: Linda, I feel I have let you down by not tracking. Perhaps it is more accurate to say I am letting myself down? Yet I don't feel guilty this time. Am I going down the rabbit hole? My (disordered?) strategy is to weigh myself daily and resume tracking if I am above 125 without clear water fluctuation involved.)
HW:361 SW:304 (VSG 12/04/2014)Mo 1:-32 Mo 2:-13.5 Mo 3: -13.5 Mo 4 -9.5 Mo 5: -15 Mo 6: -15 Mo 7: -13.5 Mo 8: -17 Mo 9: -13 Mo 10: -12.5 11/3/2015 Healthy BMI Reached! Mo 11: -9 Mo 12: -8 12/27/2015 Goal Weight Reached!
This post made me laugh out loud! And Shel, I feel the same. You and Diane are my biggest "competitors" out there! I'm actually glad you weight less then me because it helps keep me in line. Now don't go gaining so I don't have to worry so much! I actually expect you to weigh far less once the swelling from plastics is down! I'm not even striving to be close to Linda!
5' 4" tall, HW: 242, SW:215.4 Weight Loss - pre-op: - 26.6, M1: -15.4, M2: -16, M3: -11.4, M4: -11.2, M5: -12.2, M6: -7.4, M7: -7.8, M8: -2.0 Goal of 130 lbs. reached at 8 months, 2 days post-op!
I leave DianeO out of my mental calculations because I think she is an inch, maybe 1.5 inches taller than me! Linda is like an Olympian....I can't compete on her level :)
HW:361 SW:304 (VSG 12/04/2014)Mo 1:-32 Mo 2:-13.5 Mo 3: -13.5 Mo 4 -9.5 Mo 5: -15 Mo 6: -15 Mo 7: -13.5 Mo 8: -17 Mo 9: -13 Mo 10: -12.5 11/3/2015 Healthy BMI Reached! Mo 11: -9 Mo 12: -8 12/27/2015 Goal Weight Reached!
Yes, one of my strategies given to me by the NUT was to sort of reverse measure. I plate what I believe to be an appropriate amount and then will weigh to double check. This is eventually supposed to help retrain the eye to the right portion size so I eventually (someday in the distant and idyllic future) won't have to weigh and track everything I eat. It is a strategy that works best when I'm not focused on losing weight at a clip. When I'm on my WL game I still go the old route of measure then plate.
Where to start .... First, I'm bowing down to the level of disclosure and honesty here, second I'm a little bit frightened by it because I know I'm crazier than anyone else, and third I'm laughing my head off at what we are all too aware are ridiculous comparisons.
And yes the slothful one who is at least three inches shorter is the Olympian. Peed my pants a little laughing on that one because I'm pretty sure my daily steps would be around 100 (no I don't have the guts to find out)
Walked steps 4 and 5 to the scale, which read 113.
Heading off to Nelson today with our entire traveling caravan / posse. But I get to ride thanks to the amazing and talented Violet!!!! Lucky me!
Yours in certifiable insanity,
Linda aka "Olympian"
LINDA
Ht: 5'2" | HW 225, BMI 41.2 | CW 115, BMI 21.0
