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I dragged my sorry butt out of bed and got dressed and walked - yes walked to the gym. Just to be clear I live in Turks and Caicos and it is hot hot hot at 8:30am and the 20 minute walk should count for about 10 workouts ..... anyway I went and worked out with my trainer. I did not eat breakfast before I went and almost passed out. Very strange for me. I have done the gym thing before and had lots of success so was shocked at my reaction. I usually do  not eat before a workout, but now that I am eating so few calories I guess I did not have the reserve. So the moral of the story is eat or drink protein before I workout or else I will pass out and be mortally embarrassed.

I have decided to join with some other oh-ers in a 30 day challenge. Here are my goals. I am planning to post my blog on Wednesdays and Sundays so here is post number 1. I am pretty excited. I am not focusing on weight loss numbers because I know that if I stuck with this plan the weight should come off. 
 
Here they are......
1) 90g protein
2) Drink 64oz of water
3) take all vitamins and supplements
4) exercise 3x a week (more would be great)
5) do not weight or measure myself - except for tomorrow start day. I am getting a little too obsessed. I need to focus on being healthy and not just dropping weight.
6) blog at least twice a week about thoughts and lessons learned.

As I said in number 5 I am a little scale nuts. I am going to the gym for my appointment with the trainer and she going to weight and measure me and that will be it for 30 days.

good luck everyone and I look forward to the journey 


Jaime


 

My scale sucks. I am not sure if the scale is broken or my body is off. Lets hope it is the scale. I bought it just after my surgery and think it is defective. I can go to be one weight and gain 6 pounds overnight. I have also weight around the same for almost three weeks give or take a bit. So I cannot tell how much weight I have lost. So instead of letting the scale mess with my brain everyday I have measured myself so i can see how I am shrinking. I know that I am as my clothes fit differently. I am thinking that I should just chuck the sucker to the curb and just weight myself at the doctors every few months. I know that the scale is  not the best way to measure myself - I should be looking at general health, inches and physical fitness. I also lknow that muscle weights more than fat. But tell that to the little part in my brain that pledges allegiance to the scale.   I do think that i have bad scale karma. When I went for surgery the scale was broken so I did not have an accurate start weight.

My acid imitated hunger. It was killing me and I was freaking out that I was hungry all the time. After buying some prilosec each morning I am feeling much better.  I was getting annoyed when water was giving me gas.

I am realizing that I need to eat more solid food to fill me up. I think I have stayed on mushies too long and they are not filling me up - causing me to eat more.

It is a struggle to find protein that does not include dairy. I was eating dairy and it is not sitting with me. I wonder if that is why I am stalling. It is not only a high source of fat, but cheese is a trigger for overeating.

I also am learning that I need to learn to eat slowly. I bought small spoons which help, but I need a way to figure out how much I should be eating at one shot. Just need to train myself I guess.

I have been struggling with weight for as long as I remember.  I went on my first diet during the summer between grade three and grade four. I (my mom and grandma) wanted me to look good when I started my new school. I did not get to my goal weight then or any other time.

I have done weight watchers, counseling, Atkins, carb addicts, cabbage soup, south beach - you name it I have tried it. I cringe with the thought of all the money I have spent on diets (food, books, supplements, club fees) and on clothes of all different sizes.

I was looking at weight loss surgery for a long time but was not sure. It did not seem like a good fit and Ithought only really really big people needed it.  Well if 280 pounds at 5'2 is not big I am not sure what is.
 
It is hard to get approved by OHIP in Canada and I ended up living outside Canada for two years so I would have to go home to begin the approval process and who knows how long that would be. So I managed to get enough money together and headed to Mexico. I still cannot believe that I went to Mexico for surgery, but I was very pleased with the experience.

So here I start my new sleeve adventure. Fingers crossed!


Jaime :)