Brandi of the past sends warnings to Brandi of the future, or why I track
Good to see you back, Brandi! I've missed you. I love food logging. I think that is what has helped me to stay within a 2 lb range since mid-April. Sometimes, I do go back and look at past menus to see what I was eating at certain times. I need to do that now.
I'm still weight training, but there is only so much that it can help with. Things would certainly be worse without it, but for 58 years young, I am doing okay.
Gail
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Hey Mz Gail,
You are right, there is only so much lifting can do for any of us, if we have damaged skin, but I also agree things could certainly be worse!
You have done a great job sticking in your 2 pound range! You are one of the consistent ones who does not have much of a bounce!
You are doing a great job and some day I would like to see all your hard work!
You are right, there is only so much lifting can do for any of us, if we have damaged skin, but I also agree things could certainly be worse!
You have done a great job sticking in your 2 pound range! You are one of the consistent ones who does not have much of a bounce!
You are doing a great job and some day I would like to see all your hard work!
Brandi in the future..thank your note from the past and your skin is looking great, your looking great, I can only hope for similar results!
I don't have many posts or much post surgery time under my belt yet, so I will create this one, inside yours about the same thing, as a reminder. This Food Tracking tool has made all the difference for me. A little more then year ago, I had given up, I didn't think I could lose weight and was at my high weight, I could not stomach the R&Y, turned it down 5 years earlier but I heard that my insurance company had just approved this new surgery, they required a 6 month class, I grumbled; "its a ticket to wait in line"...but I was at the end of my own efforts, I got accepted to see if it would help. When I started they said they required a 10% weight loss and early on they talked about on-line food trackers. I started without them but still had to paper log my food, with very little details or calorie/carb/protein counts. I just had three meals a day but too big to lose weight, but when I finally got off my butt and signed up on a food tracking site, 1.5 months later, everything changed, OMG, I'm eating What, and I should be eating What, to lose weight, all the details started to come into focus and pointed to me shoving too much in my mouth to lose weight, DUH, well get er done dude, it was that reality orientation 2 or 3 times a day, that started changing my food plan until I got it to 1,200 calories a day and did what it took to stay there every single day. I lost 58 lbs in there pre-op in 4.5 months and with little or no exercise because of an injury, I attribute it to this one tool and give that pre-surgery weight loss alot of credit for why I had such an easy operation with no complications and fast recovery. I was lazy, I didn't want to take all that time to track my food, I could be doing other things, well, turns out those other things are not near as important as my health. It turns out tracking my food to my plan, has become the solid ground I absolutely needed to make this journey in the first place, to lose the weight, to have the success I have had already, its the cornerstone, for sure and it has to be part of maintenance when I get there, this has to stay a part of my life!
So note to self; listen up brother man....don't even stop logging your food, this is the solid ground your feet have met, that started you on this wonderful journey, that really carried you to the success you had....don't even think about walking on those shifting sands, again.... (but if you drug yourself back to this mirror post because you lost your way; make a plan, log your food, to that plan, do it for a month and tell me again which way is better? You can do it you have the tools!)
I don't have many posts or much post surgery time under my belt yet, so I will create this one, inside yours about the same thing, as a reminder. This Food Tracking tool has made all the difference for me. A little more then year ago, I had given up, I didn't think I could lose weight and was at my high weight, I could not stomach the R&Y, turned it down 5 years earlier but I heard that my insurance company had just approved this new surgery, they required a 6 month class, I grumbled; "its a ticket to wait in line"...but I was at the end of my own efforts, I got accepted to see if it would help. When I started they said they required a 10% weight loss and early on they talked about on-line food trackers. I started without them but still had to paper log my food, with very little details or calorie/carb/protein counts. I just had three meals a day but too big to lose weight, but when I finally got off my butt and signed up on a food tracking site, 1.5 months later, everything changed, OMG, I'm eating What, and I should be eating What, to lose weight, all the details started to come into focus and pointed to me shoving too much in my mouth to lose weight, DUH, well get er done dude, it was that reality orientation 2 or 3 times a day, that started changing my food plan until I got it to 1,200 calories a day and did what it took to stay there every single day. I lost 58 lbs in there pre-op in 4.5 months and with little or no exercise because of an injury, I attribute it to this one tool and give that pre-surgery weight loss alot of credit for why I had such an easy operation with no complications and fast recovery. I was lazy, I didn't want to take all that time to track my food, I could be doing other things, well, turns out those other things are not near as important as my health. It turns out tracking my food to my plan, has become the solid ground I absolutely needed to make this journey in the first place, to lose the weight, to have the success I have had already, its the cornerstone, for sure and it has to be part of maintenance when I get there, this has to stay a part of my life!
So note to self; listen up brother man....don't even stop logging your food, this is the solid ground your feet have met, that started you on this wonderful journey, that really carried you to the success you had....don't even think about walking on those shifting sands, again.... (but if you drug yourself back to this mirror post because you lost your way; make a plan, log your food, to that plan, do it for a month and tell me again which way is better? You can do it you have the tools!)
HW: 425 SW: 337 CW: 262 GW: 217 (surgeon)
Pre-surgery loss; 88 lbs (mostly in my required 6 month insurance class)
Pre-surgery loss; 88 lbs (mostly in my required 6 month insurance class)
Man!! You have rocked it, with and without your sleeve, my friend! I think your coming in with an understanding already of how your body worked with foods really must have been helpful for you!!
I am going to bookmark this and if you ever need it (and maybe you will not, since you understand the path from where you came only LOOKS grown over!) I can find it in a flash!!
I am really proud of you, and your persistence!! I know you must be proud on you too!!
I am going to bookmark this and if you ever need it (and maybe you will not, since you understand the path from where you came only LOOKS grown over!) I can find it in a flash!!
I am really proud of you, and your persistence!! I know you must be proud on you too!!
Aw, Brandilynn! You are such a good teacher. I got dietpower before I heard you used it, but if I hadn't have already bought it, I would have, on your recommendation. I love it.
I know from my pre-op life that my food goes to hell when I quit writing it down. I don't know if this will always be true in the future, but it has always been true in the past. So not sure it will ever change. It is a very small "price" to pay for peace of mind. And you know I love me some peace of mind!! Almost as much as I love you!!
:) Happy
53 yrs old, 5'6" HW: 293 ConsW: 273 SW: 263 CW: 206 
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