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Yesterday I made a start on getting into an exercise routine. My problem in restarting before has been I try to go at it like I was still doing two hours, three nights a week in the gym and still down at 83kg. Burn out!

Started early morning walks at a moderate pace for 2 miles. I'll up that to 3 miles in an hour or less next week when my legs are used to it. I use a TomTom Sports watch to track my walking, and it synchs to Myfitnesspal when I finish so my diet and exercise are in one place.

Dusted off my old dumbbells and bench, and will start on 3 nights a week with easy weights at high reps tonight. Found a great app. Found what looks like a great app to start a home dumbbell program, and most importantly record and track progress. It's called JEFIT, and I forked out for the subscription version. NB I wasted $4.99 downloading Dumbbell Workout Routine Pro first. What crappy piece of software.

Hopefully this will keep me from platyeuing, and I can keep the pace of my weight loss to better than 1lb a day.

Ron

So it's been 3 weeks since my surgery and I could not be happier. I was 132kg, or 290 lbs just before my surgery, and now I am down to 121kg or 266 lbs. The weight loss is amazing, especially as I am sticking to all the food, protein and vitamin requirements. Even better is my glucose is steady at 130-150, and my blood pressure is way down at 108/78 to 115/82. I could not be happier.

OK, so I will be happier when I can eat something I can chew again, but I'm trying to make pureed food from things with really strong flavors, and that satisfies the mental hunger. Physical hunger has not been a problem, and I have to remind myself to eat lunch.

Last weekend I went throuygh the cupboard and found all the clothes I've kept for 10-15 years because they'll fit me again one day, and it was magical to find that a lot of them now do. Especially my South Sydney guernsey - go rabittohs. This did my self esteem wonders, and I'm ready to post a belated before photo now. Other kewl things - I have to get my watch band made smaller, and I can see the veins in my arms - I have biceps again woo hoo!

OK, signing off now, but the journey so far has been great.