KKSUNSHINE
Almost a year post op
May 07, 2011
I have not posted a blog in a long time. I have been busy with other sites, however I am getting back to where I started & part of that was OH.
Over the past 6 months my life has been through alot of changes. For one I started eating junk again. For the first 6 months I didn't eat any cookies, candy, bread, crackers any of that stuff that put the weight on my to begin with. However it slowly crept back into my diet. Although I have still managed to lose weight, its been a slow process. I feel fortunate that I have been able to lose at all, however, one thing that I do on a regular basis is workout. I started walking after surgery & have not stopped (whew that is alot of miles) haha!!! I go to the gym 5 days a week & walk on an incline trainer (up to 21 incline) for 1 1/2 hours. I have been able to tell a difference in my legs, but not to the degree I would like.
I had been doing Body Pump for a while after surgery but that has gone by the way side. I was also very involved with a spin class, that also has gone to the way side. I have only focused on the incline trainer because I can burn 600 calories in a little over an hour.
However, over the past few weeks I have been reevaluating my entire approach to weight loss again. For one I am working on eliminating the bad carbs from my diet again. I say diet, but it only means, "how I eat". I am getting back to the protein and complex carbs (that I can tolerate) and rid the junk. Also I am taking another look at how I am working out.
I am a member at Golds Gym, so I have access to ALOT of equipment and even a pool, that I do not utilize. My only problem is that I can't seem to get my mind wrapped around the fact that I won't burn as many calories lifting as I will if I spend 1:15 hr on the treadmill.
They have trainers at the gym, but I don't want to pay for a trainer when I know HOW to lift, in fact when I see people using improper form at the gym, I want to jump off the machine & tell them they are going to hurt themselves (sorry just a pet peeve of mine). I was even going to go to school to be a personal trainer at one point, but a car wreck blew those out of the water.
I am going to Vegas this coming up weekend but before I leave I am going to get a plan together & when I return, I am going to put it into place. I want to lose 35 more lb to be at my goal weight, however, I want to be tight & tone not flabby & jiggly when I get there. I pray I'm not too far gone. I am down 75 lb & let me just say things are near as filled out as they once were....the skin has started to sag. = (
I guess I can just hope for the best & work my hardest & what I can't get fixed have the plastic surgeon take care of? = )
Just don't want him to have to take care of more than he has to.
Any suggestions or advice or comments you want to give, please do so. Thanks.
