Sunday Weigh In

Current Weight: 228.6

Last Week Weight: 227.8
Starting Weight (pre-surgery): 280
Goal Weight: 150
Dream Weight: 135

Another week of weight gain.  I'm not happy, but I'm not surprised.  I haven't even tried, it's been too hot.  But on the up side, I've been staying off my foot so much it's finally starting to feel better.  I'm very excited about that.  This heat will keep me off it a little longer, I'm not going to even try to hike in this weather.  I've found lots of healthy recipes that I want to try.  We're starting with one tonight.  I think I'm going to get my Weight Loss Support group going and start posting some of the recipes I've tried.  Would any of you like to join my little group?  I'll post a link next week, hopefully by then I'll have a little bit of content posted there.

Sunday Weigh In

Current Weight: 227.8

Last Week Weight: 223.6
Starting Weight (pre-surgery): 280
Goal Weight: 150
Dream Weight: 135

Well, this week was a bust.  I didn't want to post this, but when I started this blog I wanted to document my entire "re-boot" even if it wasn't all good stuff.  So here we are.  The un-fill has been very unkind to me.  I didn't realize how much I was relying on the band to keep me in line.  I've been out of control for the last week and now it's time to put it to an end.  I've had a week to eat what I want now it's time to remember what I really want... to get healthy!

Sunday Weigh In

Current Weight: 223.6

Last Week Weight: 225.0
Starting Weight (pre-surgery): 280
Goal Weight: 150
Dream Weight: 135

I'm happy.  I still need to do better.  I've set a mini goal- 200 pounds by August 28, that day will mark 1½ years since my surgery and 80 pounds of weight lost.  My foot has been holding up pretty well with regular walking which is good, walking is one of my favorite things to do.  But I think I'm either going to need to start walking more or add in something else.

Yesterday the boss handed out gift cards to ColdStone.  Couldn't let THAT go to waste, so it went to my waist.  I felt awful after eating that.  It was SO sweet and disgusting.  But it was good, it reminded me I shouldn't be eating that junk anyway.

Just a Phone Call

Monday night I threw up again.  It's been going on for 6 months and I still haven't figured out why.  I chew my food very well and I don't think I'm eating too much.  In fact on Monday I got a mini cheese quesadilla from Del Taco.  It was a mini tortilla filled with some cheese and folded in half.  Just about the size of my hand.  I admit, I was driving when I was eating it, hubby thinks that may have contributed.  So on Tuesday I decided to call my doctor and see what I needed to do to make an appointment for July to get an un-fill.  July is when my new insurance plan at work starts, so that's why the wait.  Well, when I explained the situation the receptionist said she wanted me to talk to the nurse.  I explained to the nurse what was happening and she wanted me to talk to the doc.  Oh boy.  So he gets on the phone and he's not happy... at all.  He wanted me in THAT day.  I agreed to come on Friday, my day off, even though I would have to drive an hour and a half to get to his main office (I usually see him in his satellite office which is local for me).

Fast forward to Friday.

I drove to Olympia in rush hour traffic, the normal hour and a half drive took closer to 2 hours BOTH ways. It was very frustrating.  I saw the Doc he gave me a lecture about how what I was doing wasn't healthy... DUH!  And I could cause all sorts of problems if I didn't get it taken care of.  I got a small un-fill and another lecture and I was back on my way.

My doc says liquids for 48 hours after any type of band manipulation, whether it's a fill, un-fill, vomiting what ever.  So, as of right now I'm back on liquids.  I did my daily weigh in today and the scale is definitely my friend.  But I'm not going to tell you what it said until tomorrow because that is my "official" weight LOL.

I'm also very happy that I've been able to get some walking in.  The foot has been holding up pretty well and I'm thankful for that.  I still haven't been on a hike, but I'm off until Tuesday, there is still time.

So that's my story.  Be back tomorrow with a weigh in.

Sunday Weigh In

Current Weight: 225.0

Last Week Weight: 225.8
Starting Weight (pre-surgery): 280
Goal Weight: 150
Dream Weight: 135

Well... nothing spectacular but more than I deserved.  I had cheesecake at work, not once but TWICE!!  And last night not one but TWO apple-tinis at the bar we went to to watch the Sounders Game.  So, I will take my .8 and be happy.

I've been doing a teensy bit of extra walking and the foot seems to be holding up.  It pretty much hurts all the time but it's at a dull roar and doesn't seem to get worse the more I'm on it.  I was thinking of going on a very short hike on some nice even terrain today to test it out but there's too much to get done in my one day off.  Next week I'm off Thursday-Monday, I'll get at least 1 short hike in then.

Rough Day

Everything I have had to eat today has been a struggle. I made myself a bowl of salad for lunch. I was only able to eat half of it before it got stuck. Fortunately it went down finally. A couple hours later I tried to eat the rest of it and it got stuck again. Same deal, finally it went down. For dinner I decided a protein shake was in the cards for me.

Last Sunday night I had another "episode". So I'm at 5 days since the last time I threw up. It was a stupid thing. I had a really bad head ache during the night so I took some nopal (amazing anti inflammatory) and no way was it going down. I'd only been in bed an hour but I guess that was long enough for my band to tighten down enough that even liquids weren't getting through.

I'm not really looking for a scale victory this week. I haven't done anything to warrant a loss. My foot still me but I think it's time to suck it up and get back to some sort of activity. Maybe a short hike this weekend. I'll let you know.

Sunday Weigh In

Current Weight: 225.8

Last Week Weight: 227
Starting Weight (pre-surgery)t: 280
Goal Weight: 150
Dream Weight: 135

Ahhhh it's good to see the scale moving.  I've been stuck between 227 and 230 for months!  I'm so happy to see a change.  And I feel good.  On the 28th I started eating right.  Cut the junk and the portions and things were moving in the right direction.  Yesterday was Leonard's Day 1 so he wanted to have a pig out on the 31st.  It was awful.  But at least it didn't throw me off.  I was able to get right back on track and start eating right again without any problem.  The cravings are even easing up already.  It's such a mental game.  I just have to remind myself from time to time to not think about food and I'll be okay.

SO... here are a few other stats:
7 days since last time I threw up
1 day since last junk food
0 days of exercise (I'm embarrassed about that one)

My foot is still giving me a good amount of trouble so I'm still not walking much.  I'm thinking about just getting out there and doing it though.  Maybe I just need to push past the pain... I don't know.

I'll end with a little inspiration...