Ok, so here it is my first day of food...reality time...what worked before will not work now or at least some parts of it..brutal truth is I live alone, work long hours, and don't like to cook..so..well the Lean Cuisine for lunch was ok only ate half of it, but it upset the stomach..seems like frozen meals might be a thing of the past...so instead think of fast, healthy meals, for one...breakfast may be an issue if I don't come up with some various menu plans..in keeping with the OCC rules I wil
Day 7 Wow What can I say. Still doing the usual, 2 cups of coffee and a shake in the morning, A shake for lunch and a bowl of steamed broccoli later in the afternoon. Chicken club panini for supper and 11/2 liters of water. I'm pretty pumped I bought a Wii fit plus and when I hooked it up it said get off you are over 330lbs. So I thought I would try again today and was able to get it all setup because it said I weighed 325lbs. I am suppose to lose 17lbs by Monday. I don't know if I will lose tha
Hi everyone, I haven’t posted to this blog in a while so I have some catching up to do. Basically for the last couple of months my third fill has been pushed back for several reasons. It was scheduled for Friday February 26th. We had a huge snow storm and my doctor had to re-schedule. I re-scheduled with Fill Center USA, for Friday April 2nd. This was a tentative date because they didn’t have the doctors schedule for April as yet so within a couple of days they called me back and told me that t
What up, What up. Well let's see day five is done. This was my first tough day. Hunger kind of crept up on me a lot today. I did not do that bad though. I did my usual for the day with 2 cups of coffee, and a shake in the am oh yeah and a Metamucil capsule. For lunch I had a bag of celery with Wishbone Spritzer and a shake. I came home and had a lean cuisine angel-hair pasts and shrimp + a lean cuisine steak, mushroom and cheese panini and a bowl of steamed broccoli. I guess I can't watch Food
Day #4 over with, gone, done, history. Today I got up at 5:30 am. I had 2 cups of coffee and a shake at 9:00. I then walked about a mile and a half. We went over to my Mother in laws and got some games loaded onto the laptop (slots and such)and my golf game. Came home had a shake and a bowl of steamed broccoli. For supper I had a lean cuisine shrimp and angel hair pasta with a cup of steamed broccoli.Still not to bad for the fat guy having major doubts about doing this. Pre-op is 1/2 over (wooho
Day 3 was pretty easy. I had a shake for breakfast , some celery , another shake for lunch , and a lean cuisine chicken club. I mowed the yard , cleaned out the fridge and cleaned the house toady. Not much else to tell. I'm still kinda weirded out that I not climbing the walls yet. Oh yeah I vacuumed and washed my truck some wher along the line.
please tell me how much weight I can really expect to loose, I tend to loose weight easily , keeping it off has always been my problem.... and I know that everyone is different but I am asking with my weight of over 300lbs now... what can I expect to loose approx @ 6mo-1yr etc.... please help me with your input. I am in the saving part of my journey right now and it will help motivate me to sacrifice that much more. I need to keep my eye on the prize ya know. thank you!
Hi all it's day 2 and so far so good. I can't believe it I'm sitting here drinking a shake and I'm doing pretty fair. Yesterday I started my pre-op diet. I had a shake for breakfast and lunch. I had a Lean Cuisine Chicken Club Panini and 2 celery stalks. Today I have had 2 cups of cowith spinach leaves a shake, 2celery stalks, and a shake. I'm going to have a salad with Spritzer(ranch)with spinach leaves and another Chicken Club. I was sure I was going to have problems. You know I think if you
Last night was another personal victory, which may seem small to some but for me was kind of a big deal...so, here I was sitting at home feeling sorry for myself as I look in the fridge at three types of soup..booring, soon over though...anyway, I picked my evening dinner soup, did my reading homework, and decided it was time to do my "in house walking" tape by Leslie Sansone. Now I had to really clean house to find this DVD since I had moved stuff around after my husband died a year and a half
Well the first day is here. This is also my first blog. I really don't know where to start. So I guess I 'll start with me. I'm 50 years old and weigh 350#.For years I had no trouble maintaining my weight. To the point that I never even thought about it. I used to be very active with hiking, mountain biking,weight lifting etc. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest which I believe to be the best place in America to live. Anyhoo I usually had jobs that were physical or where I needed to stay in shap
I am scheduled to be banded at the end of this month. I will be having it on Monday and flying back on Wednesday. I have about six hours of flying and of course a lay over in Atlanta. Total trip is about 8 hours each way. Just curious on any tips or issues.... Thanks
Well, It's Easter Sunday, year two after the death of my husband and childhood sweetheart..this year was a bit easier and I have accomplished so much today..The time of re-birth and re-newal is very personal this year. My first week as a banded person learning to live without food for comfort...I can't even believe I am saying that. I had to write it down today because I want to look back at this next year and remember that I did it! I was able to go to a family function without feeling so stres
I am scheduled at the end of this month. I am growing more concerned with recent news stories about border violence at the borders. TJ is aleays painted as a war zone and now the recent government travel warning I just dont no what to expect. I am interested to hear from anyone that has visited OCC from san diego airport in the past 60 days or so. I am so impressed with DR. Ortiz and OCC staff and know I found the right place for me. I am most concerned with travel to hotel lucerna and OCC.
I've always kept extreme details of my workouts.
This was in my past life, when I was completely over board with everything I did.
But journaling kept me focused & on track. And knowing I was motivation for others out in cyber-land kept me really motivated and excited to keep going.
I keep a w/o journal, but it's all written down - i'd just have to transcribe everything after i get back from the gym, which was never a big deal. I'm on the computer anyways ...
But I'm thinking about sta
update re this entry.she sent me this reply:
i didn't think i'd have to play my "I was a fat gurl too, and i'll tell you about how me and my other formerly fat friends took it off if you're interested. i'm talking 50- 80, and my homegurl shed 100 in one year. but none of them are you. and i am only one brilliantly unique non-obese person with her own bag of eating among other disorders--hoping like the rest of us to not be judged.
if you're mind is set then i'll hold my tongue.
i just wish
what a good place for a blog: a place where there are only those who are goign there/have been there.
ive told ONE non-obese friend about my decision to get banded and since then, she's said over and over how she doesnt approve and is not supportive. *sigh. i wish i hadnt told her until AFTER b/c i dont feel like fighting. but i'll be ok, it's less than a week away to listen to her "dont do it." i feel hope that it'll be easier to listen to, "i told you to not do it," when it's post band time.
Hey bandsters. I got my first fill today. My sister got banded today and is now a part of the fam. Anyway since I was her guest I got a chance to talk with Dr. Martinez a bit extensively and in person... (so handsome) about why the first fill may not yeild as much restriction as expected and how to get more out of your band. Basically it was what I think I am starting to learn anyway... You have to work with the band and not expect it to do the work for you. In other words DON't test the ba
Well, I did it...I made it through the surgery...the best experience ever. I have to say I have never had such great and caring service. And now the real work begins..my stomach is growling off and on but not as bad as it might be with the band. I can hardly wait to add protein. Now I have to really watch my emotions and learn new ways to deal with them. I have come a long way from when I first started paying attention to my emotions and eating. Now I can recognize when something is bothering me
So here I am 8 days left until I can finally eat. I can still honestly say I've felt good, not terribly hungry. When I am hungry it's still at the dreaded 2-5pm time frame of the day. So I've just been eating my biggest "meal" if you can call it that - during that time of the day.
I was able to move on to creamy soups which is like fricking heaven after all this time of drinking clear liquids. I found that the drinkable yogurt was just too thick for me. I would drink it and it just felt like i
Well, I have actually done it...the first half of a new life...the rest will start when the plane wheels hit the ground and I use this blog to work through emotions insead of eatting through them..I have to say this was a 100% best expierence and all of you thinking about the surgcial part of it like I was can rest easy..
So, here I am two days...to surgery...and all these feelings are surfacing and I feel myself starting to be put in frenzy which at any other time would have sent me straight for food...one of the thoughts that came to me was "what am I going to do with all these feelings?" They were almost overwhelming, or so I felt..as I sat there and made myself take deep breaths I slowly was able to at least calm myself...I can see a future where I am going to have to do this a lot and also find a way to proc
I am not very good at giving a play by play action about my surgery...but here it goes.
For all of the people thinking of having this surgery, and ones who have a scheduled date, maybe this will help. As you see, my name on here is Apprehensive. That is putting it mildly. I have an anxiety disorder and without the help of my little pill when I need it I would have been a total basket case. I grew some bigger huevos (that is what my brother-in-law who is from Mexico calls BALLS), and I gathe
working on it, I don't have much so this is a major purchase..... I hope it's worthit. please write with your success to encourage me... I am having a hard time with this , but am tired of being so unhealthy too! I am over 300lbs now! and i have 2 kids, makes me want it even more, and it also makes it harder to spend that kind of money! thank you for your advise!
