The Weight is Finally Moving Again!

Apr 18, 2012

I stalled for what seemed like a really long time at 246.  When I came home from the hospital , I was making sure to get my workouts in, even though I hadn't been able to get in the protein and the water.  Basically, I was going around exhausted.  I took a couple weeks off of the working out to really give myself some time to heal, and to get myself together a little bit. 

I'm doing much, much better with getting in my protein and water.  I still can't get in 64 ozs of water a day yet, but I'm working on it.  I was watching this youtube video, where this lady was saying that her program required its participants to get in 90 grams of protein per day.  I think that's a good number, so maybe I'll try to work my way up to that.  I'm just about to come up on my 3 month mark later this month, and so I haen't had a post-op appontment with my NUT yet (she said that we would start after I hit 3 months), and I'm going to be having my 3 month follow-up with my surgeon this month as well.  I haven't been given a protein goal as of yet, I just know I need lots of it.  The research that I have done suggests that I need to be getting in atleast half of my ideal weight gm/lb, so since that's about 150 lbs, looks like I need to get in about 75 grams of protein/day.  I'm getting over 50/day, and I'm working my way up, and finding new ways to get in more and more everyday.

I get about 45 ozs on the fluids as well.  I'm working on getting this up, because I know it's important, especially with these hot summer months coming up in GA, but hey, my urine is clear, so I take that as a sign that I'm on the right track.

Oh yeah, my vits.  I faithfully take my B12 shot every payday (which is every 2 weeks).  Soon I'll be dropping it down to once a month.  I ordered a 90 day supply of multivits with iron, and calcium chewables from celebrate.  Cost me a 100 bucks with shipping and handling, which is pricey, but the pills desolve easily, and I haven't had any problems with them coming back up.  I've had so many problems with keeping my vits down, and I've felt so bad about the fact that I couldn't do it....it's worth the money for me.

Now, back to my work out.  Like I said, I took a little time to get myself together, and to get my energy up.  I'm getting back into the work out, slowly....which is hard for me, because I definitely am an all or nothing person.  I have been setting my elliptical to a resistance of 10, and raising and lowering my speed, from 4.6 to 10.8 mph, and I've been going for at least a mile daily....which only takes me about 15 minutes.  Which seems like absolutely nothing, and the first time I did it, I felt bad about it....cause I'm all or nothing, but at the same time, I was just at a point where I felt like I have to do SOMETHING at least.  That 15 minutes has caused me to lose like 5-6 lbs in less than a week.

I'm just going to concentrate on building everything, water intake, protein, and exercise.  Hopefully by the time I get to 3 months, I will be at full capacity with the water and protein, and I'll be able to go really strong with the exercise. 

Getting into the 230s this week!  :-)

~elle

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