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Rounding UP: Fat Friday

17
Feb 2012

I was hoping that by today’s Fat Friday update I would be able to report that I had lost 70 pounds. I am .8 pounds away from that goal, so I can’t make that announcement.

Bummer.

I also have no one to blame for failing to make this goal by today except myself. I have not truly exercised in more than two weeks. I quit doing my morning workout when I became sick with sinuses. I normally do workouts about 4 times a week, and I haven’t done so for the last two weeks. I have also been spending a lot of time sitting at my computer. I am working when at my computer, but it makes it harder to get my workout in.

But I do have good news to report. I need a drum roll.

[rat at tat tat atat atat]

I have lost 64.25 inches from 13 key areas that I measure: right thigh, left thigh, right arm, left arm, neck, chest, waist, hips, left calf, right calf, and the widest area on my body that I call butt/hips.

I need to get back in the swing of things. I have seen an improvement in my breathing, so I no longer have an excuse.

I also need to continue to drink lots of fluid. I was doing well early last week, which brought me some additional losses. I have slacked off the past few days, and the scale stopped moving.

Yesterday, my husband and I had 45 minutes to spare before my daughter’s basketball game started. He asked me how I wanted to spend the time. I suggested we use the time to walk around the balcony area that circles the basketball court and get some exercise in.

At the time of my suggestion, he was turning into the high school. He looked at me weird and said, “Who are you and what have you done with my wife?” He did a little u-turn instead of turning into the high school. Instead, we went to a nearby bar, and I nibbled on peanuts.

So we didn’t do the walking, but it does show that my thought process has changed. Now, I just need to make my actual actions change too. This coming week? No excuses for not exercising!

 

That’s a 64.25 loss in inches!

 

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Friend Making Monday

13
Feb 2012

Today, I am going to participate in Friend Making Monday. I learned about this from Sarah of OnMyWayToHappiness.

If you’ve taken part in FMM then you know the rules. If you’re new, please take a moment to answer this week’s question on your own blog then add your link in the comments section here at: www.alltheweigh.com so we can all see your FMM questions and answers. Please invite your blog readers to add their links here too so everyone has to opportunity to be seen. The idea is to connect with other awesome bloggers so take a moment to post your own FMM post and comment on a couple of other posts. Now it’s time for this week’s topic!

FMM: Before Photos

1. Are you on a weight-loss journey? Have you lost weight in the past? Are you trying to lose it now?

I am on a weight-loss journey. I didn’t always struggle with my weight. I never had a problem until I gave birth to my fourth child in four years. I used diet pills to help me lose the weight, but I didn’t realize I ate huge amounts of calories. I didn’t change my diet, and I ended up gaining the weight back. That was in 1999. In 2003-ish, I was maintaining at a high of about 180 or so. I wasn’t actively trying to lose weight. Then my dad died. I started working very long hours, and I brought in a grocery bag full of food with me to eat at my desk while working. This often included things like a box of Wheat Thins and a half-pound of spinach dip. I don’t even want to know what kind of calories that added up to.

Needless to say, I gained weight. I was now hovering around 200-210. In 2006, I went back to grad school. For the next two years, busy is not enough to describe what my life was like. It was overflowing, and my eating was the least of my concerns. I frequently ate fast food twice a day because it was all I had time for as I commuted between home work and school. I was putting 700 miles on my car a week. My days started at 6 a.m. and usually went until 1 or 2 a.m. I’d be away from home from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. I gained weight.

In 2007, I tried to lose. I would have some success and then put it back on with even more weight. In 2011, I noticed that no matter what I tried to do, I was gaining steadily. In June/July of 2011, my weight had reached an all-time high of 255 pounds, and I decided that was unacceptable. I went to a meeting about bariatric surgery at the end of June. My surgery was scheduled for Aug. 9, which was less than six weeks from the time I attended that first meeting.

In addition to my surgery, I am doing a lot of exercising, drinking fluids and eating right. The weight is coming off. I am now almost back to that 180 that I haven’t seen since at least 2003 if not longer.

2. Do you like being in pictures, or do you shy away from the camera?

I am usually the one taking photos in my family. I do like being in pictures although I shied away from it more when I was overweight. I know that pictures aren’t just about me, and my family would like pictures of me too, so I tried not to avoid getting my picture taken. Still, there were few pictures of me since I am the one behind the camera.
3. Does looking at old photos of yourself motivate you?

Old photos do motivate me, and I am motivated by photos of me when I was skinny and when I was obese. There are some pictures of me from 13 years ago where I was very skinny (the first time I was on the diet pills actually), and I was at the goal weight I hope to see soon. Those pictures are just as motivating as the ones where I was 255 and couldn’t walk without rubbing my thighs together and getting chaffed.
4. Weight-loss bloggers, do you post progress pictures on your blog?

I do use progress photos on my blog.
5. Will you share a before photo with us (even if you don’t have an after yet?)

This is a photo that I shared not that long ago on my blog. It shows a 64 pound loss. Since then, I’ve lost another 5 pounds.

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Loving the Scale – The Fat Friday Edition

10
Feb 2012

This morning after I stepped onto the scale, I made my husband look at the results. It was a new low and showed I had lost more than a pound since yesterday.

He predicted pictures of the scale would be on my blog before the day is over. Well, I couldn’t make him be right about that, so there are no scale pictures. :-)

Instead, I give you my ticker. Look at that ticker — my banana is completely past the rollercoaster. It is not touching a single thing on the rollercoaster. I remember when it seemed like I would never even make it to the coaster.

Edited to add: I was reading blogs this morning, and I found out about the UASW at Bandster Momma’s blog. I, of course, had to join. Plus, it means I am now adding a picture of the scale to this post:

My ticker shows I have 47.8 pounds to go, but I am really looking forward to a normal BMI, which will happen at 161 pounds. That is just 26 pounds away. I had to double check my math. I was right. That doesn’t seem very far away.

There are days that I hate my scale, but these last few days I am back to loving it. I haven’t taken measurements lately, so I should do that as well.

This morning I was not expecting a loss. Before I even stepped onto the scale, I was resigned to the fact that it would probably show something in the 190s again. That my flirtation with the 180s was just a brief affair. So to step onto the scale and see not just a number in the 180s but more than a pound lost was thrilling. I had to tell everyone in my family.

On Tuesday, my doctor mentioned that I needed to up my fluid intake because I won’t burn calories if I don’t have enough fluid in my system. I told my husband that, and he was like “Well, duh! Who has been telling you that for years?” In fairness, he has been telling me that for years. I need to drink more fluids, specifically water. And so I think I will listen to hubby more often. He seems to have good ideas. He married me after all. :-)

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Bringin’ Back the ’80s

09
Feb 2012

As a very young child, I wrote the numbers on the steamed up window of my bus: ’89 Forever, Class of ’89, and the ever popular, ’89 Rules!

I remember writing it on folders and notes and doodling it in the margins of paper. I was obsessed with the year I would graduate high school. It seemed so far away, but it arrived oh-so-quickly.

Today, I am reliving that feeling of ’89 arriving faster than I ever imagined. Only this time, it is a number on my scale.

That’s right. My scale said 189.

189.

I am thrilled about this. It is one more milestone on my journey down the scale. It represents 66 pounds lost since August.

189.

I was right all those years ago — ’89 rocks.

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Six Month Post-op

05
Feb 2012

My six-month post-op appointment is quickly approaching. Officially, my appointment is exactly 26 weeks after my surgery date. My surgery was on a Tuesday, and my appointment is also on a Tuesday. Twenty-six weeks is actually 6.5 months if you count a month as four weeks. If you count a month as the 9th to the 9th, it is still two days short of my six-month anniversary.

I had surgery August 9, 2011 and my appointment is Feb. 7, 2012.

Before my surgery, I had hoped that I would have lost all of my excess weight by my six-month appointment. That’s right, all 115 pounds.

I have lost 65 pounds since my surgery, so I am not yet at goal. I have had several stalls, which I hadn’t really considered before my surgery.

Still, I am two pounds away from the 180s, and I would like to lose those 2 pounds before my appointment Tuesday.

Although, truth be told, even if I did manage to do that, it wouldn’t necessarily be reflected at my doctor’s office since my appointment is at 1 p.m., and I will weigh in with clothes on.

But I would feel better, and it is a goal. It also ignores that fact that I haven’t lost any weight in more than a week. It’s about time, don’t you think?

I am getting frustrated with the scales. I know I’m not supposed to rely on them, and this has proven completely true. The other day, I was completely dressed including boots. I stepped on the scale, and it said 192. My naked weight has been stalled at 191, so I figured if I shed the clothes and boots, I would be less than 191.

I stripped down naked and stepped on the scale again. It still said 192. No difference at all, but it also put me a pound over my low weight. :(

So I complained loudly and proclaimed that I hated the scales. Then, for the heck of it, I put just my boots (which were heavy) on the scales. They weighed in at 1.4 pounds. So shouldn’t 192 – 1.4 be less than 192? Plus the weight of the boots doesn’t even consider that I was wearing a pair of jeans, shirt, jacket and undies.

Scale math — I do not understand it.

Anyway, the good news is that I am seeing other changes. For instance, I can feel a very distinct toned muscle in my thighs. It is still hidden a bit by flab, but I can feel it. It wasn’t there before, so progress.

I don’t really have any concerns or questions to discuss at my six-month appointment. I know that I need to keep up my exercise (if not expand it), and I really need to up my water intake. It is something I tend to slack at (always have).

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