VSG Maintenance Group
Monday, 01/13/2020,
Weight: 141.0
Veggies/Fruits: 8
Macronutrients: Cals - 1,415, Carbs - 131, Fats - 45, Protein - 100, Fiber - 24
Green SmartPoints: 34
Water: 1 cups
Sleep: 6 hours
Exercise: 9,394 steps and 20? of yoga@home
Good Monday morning!
My weight's holding steady. A little too steady. But the big picture is that in the past three weeks since returning from Antarctica I've lost 3.8 pounds while also returning to yoga, which definitely rebuilds muscle. So 1.25 pounds/week isn't that bad. Consistency, patience, and forward. Might be an important life principle, eh? 
Last week I averaged 7,800 steps/day and did yoga six times. My exercise goal this week is to average 8,000 steps/day, go to two yoga classes and do four home yoga sessions.
Right now, a good friend of mine is dying after many years of bad health. Today it's my intention to enjoy the gift of life, which doesn't last forever and isn't guaranteed even for a day.
Today, more important things than weight are being kind to others and being grateful for thousands of people whose past and ongoing contributions make my life so lovely.
Today's musical theme: "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong
ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22
POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.
Weight 134.2, WW points 42 (wine...).
I agree Ann that we should be grateful for our lives and for the wonderful people in it (like all of you).
Family starts arriving today. Late dinners and disruptive schedules. At least I am starting the day by washing my sheets and towels and going to yoga.
The pictures for the wake are done. I didn't do poster board collages but printed 8 x 10 collage photos with 4 each and framed them (see example below). I discovered that I can play a slideshow of additional pictures from my iPad with music so today I am going to cull out the repeat pictures in the album of pictures of Paul that I had set up.
And I have to steam the wrinkles out of the new dress I bought.
Have a grateful Monday.
Liz 5'3" HW: 219 SW: 185 GW: 125 LW: 113 Desired maintenance range: 120-125 CW: 119ish
Oh, Liz ... those pix are wonderful! What a beautiful family you have. Those still here and those gone on.
ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22
POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.
- Within Range: 4 over
- Blue SmartPoints: 23
- General Wellbeing: 9.5
- Fitness: swimming and water aerobics
- Self-Care: swimming and water aerobics
- Fun: swimming and water aerobics
Two days in a row, my serenity scale is rising and my fitness, self-care and fun were interconnected. Do you think being physically active is essential to my well being ?! My Sunday calendar review and intentional planning are helping. Ann, your outlook and priorities are spot on ! Liz, your pictures and corresponding plans are wonderful. I hope working on them brought you peace and pleasure.
Age: 64; 5' 5"; High weight: 345; Start weight: 271 (01/05/15); Surgery weight: 218 (05/27/15); Pre-Op (-53); M 1 (-18); M 2 (-1.5); M 3 (-13.5 ); M 4 (-13); M 5 (- 8); M 6 (-12) M 7 (-5, Xmas); M 8 (- 9) Under surgeon's goal and REACHED HEALTHY BMI 12/07/15!! (Six months and one week.) AT GOAL month 8. Maintaining at goal range (139- 144) ~ four (4) years !!
Back from the binge barge, ahem cruise.
166.2 Ship sure lives up to its reputation. Hoping some of that weight is water retention from flying.
Not my favorite kind of vacation. But I realized the last thing other people want to hear is complaints about a vacation! And it's not that great for me, either. But briefly: I need not to have that kind of access to food without a whole lot else to do. Luckily, even at an all inclusive, I don't indulge that much.
Thank God for my sleeve. It still helps protect me. But the trouble with eating in this fashion is that I was able to eat multiple times a day, therefore getting around the whole portion control issue entirely.
Since New Year's I've been doing quite a bit of reflection.
I'm not sure I like the direction I'm growing/aging. I think it can be boiled down to FEAR. I don't learn the new technology etc. so I fear it rather than embrace it. I'm afraid of all the what ifs and so I forget to enjoy the present. Someone cruising with us made the comment "that's future Kelsey's problem." Whoa. What if I treated all my anticipated "problems" that way. It may not even be a problem later, but if it is, that's future Bonnie's problem! Another quote I heard recently is "what would you be doing if you weren't AFRAID." Afraid to fail, actually afraid of things (like heights), afraid of judgment or being wrong or consequences.
Some of these traits are probably too deeply ingrained to totally change. I'm a very "cautious" person and I'll never be that person who doesn't make plans or who goes skydiving. But I wonder how I can learn to embrace spontaneity and unload some of this anticipatory fear. I want to have more fun and just enjoy.
Ha. Don't we all. Wish I had the answers. But I guess I'll just slowly try to retrain my brain on this.
In the meantime, I think not eating 10 times per day might help with the weight ;)
I could not tolerate a cruise ship that encourages passengers to "eat all day all you want when you want as much as you want." Would not work for me. I don't think it works for anybody. But I could be wrong ... I often am.
ANN 5'5", AGE 74, HW 235.6 (BMI 39.2), SW 216, GW 150, CW 132, BMI 22
POUNDS LOST: Pre-op -20, M1 -10, M2 -11, M3 -10, M4 -10, M5 -7, M6 -5, M7 -6, M8 -4, M9 -4,
NEXT 10 MOS. -12, TOTAL -100 LBS.
on 1/13/20 8:06 am
Weight 198.4. Today is my weigh in day for WW and I was down 2.8 this week and 9.8 in the 2 weeks since I started.
Losing was never my problem! Being "ready" to lose, which means giving up my food-based coping and celebratory mechanisms is. When I'm on track, I can see I have many other ways to cope and find joy other than eating large amounts of crappy stuff. But something switches off in my brain when I go off track that erases all of those things and tells me I don't enjoy eating healthily or moderately, which isn't true. And I know from experience, a flip of the brain switch and I could regain all of this in a week and a half. It takes constant vigilance to keep the switches where they belong...
I'm still liking intermittent fasting! It's been really helpful to keep me from snacking at night.
