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Sean_B's Blog
7 months and all's well
well I'm SO glad that the new drug "Alli" has finally been approved for over-the-counter sales, and brought to market so I can try to lose this damn weight (SARCASM PEOPLE..... SARCASM)   OK... so my weight lately has been floating around 175.... almost 150 lbs down from where I started. I'm solidly in a 32 waist pants and MEDIUM shirts!!! I never would have believed it if you told me this back in November. Also, I didn't think I even HAD a spare 150 lbs... I thought maybe 80-100 lbs, but I feel great and I look much better too except possibly the upper half of my face, though it may be that I'm still not used to it yet. From my Mother's side (Irish and Cherokee) I have very high and prominent cheekbones... with the weight loss, it kind of makes my face (at least from comparison) look a bit sunken. part of it is that I still need to get used to some parts of my change of appearance, the other part is that I've just about leveled off in my weight loss... so if I'm a typical DSer, I'll probably gain back somewhere around 10-20 lbs and that should fill out some low spots. Though I'm sure most of the problem is the fun-house mirror effect... I'm still not used to much of what I'm seeing in the mirror so it still looks strange to me. I had my 6-month followup with Dr Shah last month... he couldn't be happier with my progress as well as with my bloodwork.... everything from the lab came back PERFECT. He even suggested I stop taking the sublingual B12 that I was taking (my B12 levels were so high that the labs couldn't measure that high)... instead, he suggested I take a B-100 or B-150 complex, that I seem to be having no trouble absorbing B12 normally, and that I might notice a better energy boost from the other B vitamins (particularly B1 and B6)... it's only been about 2 weeks (I waited until I finished that bottle of B12) that I've been taking the B-150 and do notice at least a SLIGHT increase in energy and alertness...but since it's only been 2 weeks, it could be other factors as well. Who cares, so long as I don't feel WORSE, right? I'm so glad the weather has finally gotten warmer so I can get outside and DO stuff... I'm almost done building my shed (so I can clear out much of the garage and some of my office)... my boat is almost complete (I've been building a fiberglass canoe/kayak hybrid... almost ready for water testing, then final rigging and paint. Took my family to Great Escape (a 6-flags amusement park here in upstate NY) last weekend and had a BLAST... rode many rides with my 4 y/o. I fit the rides SOO much better than I used to, though there were a couple that I still smashed my knees to get into. funny thing about having WLS... your legs stay the same length  Also the last couple weeks I've been getting out hiking more... averaging 4-5 miles each time. In a week or two, I'll be adding the pack to those hikes, and gradually adding weight to the pack. The way I look at it, my average pack weight for a 3-4 night trip is around 60-70 lbs... 175 plus 70 = 245.... my preop weight was close to 325... so even with a fully loaded pack, I'll be about 80 lbs below my preop weight  I should be able to hike Everest with THAT kind of advantage hehe.I'm gearing up for a late-August or early September trip with my Dad to hike and summit Mt. Marcy... highest point in NY at 5344 feet, an elevation change of about 3300 ft. Probably not much to those of you living out west, but Marcy ranks second only to Mt Washington in NH for Northeast peaks (and possibly the entire eastern half of the US) This trip means a lot to me in that first, I haven't been hiking/camping with my dad since he was my scout leader back in 1980... next, my last hiking trip to the Adirondacks, I had to sit out the summit run (along with a small handful of others in my group) because of problems with my knee... so I never, in my mind, got to "finish" that trip... my knee had for a while gotten even worse, but recently has been getting better and now that I've lost so much weight, I haven't so much as felt ANYTHING from my knee since February. I guess the thing is, as I lost weight, my knee hurt less... with my knee hurting less I've been able to walk more... which both strengthens my knee and promotes more weight loss... both which make my knee hurt even less (and even feel good) which makes my able to walk more... it's a (not so) vicious cycle  guess it's just as well I don't enter something every day, huh? look at all this typing... jeez, I swear they're going to start charging me rent around here. 0 Comment(s)
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