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MIA has been it for me too mostly but I'm trying to get back online. Can't see a damn up close some days but I must keep 1) Do my part to BAF alive and 2) Keep my inner fat girl from bumping my @$$ out of my clothes and 3) Find motivation when its not comming from within.
Sooooo, yeah bay--beee! I am still here waiting for you to be all the way back.
MSW Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Eat sensibly & enjoy moderation
Links: Are you a compulsive eater? for help OA meets on-line Keep Coming Back, One Day At a Time Overeaters Anonymous
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V'N MY RNY. WORKING FOR ME BECAUSE I WORK FOR IT.
TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH AND BE ACCOUNTABLE: Are you managing your obesity or something else in control?
Surgery: Under consideration, approval process, pre op, post op, or maintaining we have responsibilities that we must be committed to. Even if we never admitt to ourselves there are dysfunctional food issues in the mix at some level our agenda must include a radical change to make this a long term succcess. The physical cure is not an automatic obesity cure any more than many disease modifying medications can work optimally without the patients active participation in ensuring it is tken as directed.
No Surgery: Not an option for most who find this site but there are many silent no ops who can loose and maintain by diet and exercise alone. In spite of the 95% failure rate of diets, what can work for you is a complex combination of physical, emotional, metabolic, and even speritual factors that need your direct attention to resolve. Moe dillegence is required at the outset because there is no benefit of a tool to allow time to gt your head straight while making progress.
Activity: The fact is there fat people who are healthier than thin people because acgtivity is an important component of good health. The only option here os to get out and do it. A little or a lot, some form of exerrcise is a requirement for maintaining the body both short and long term.
For many of us, the calories in/out math doen't work. Lucky folks can exceed the numbers and there is where you seee the bragging rights taken full advantage of. For some of us the numbers are average and where wls is concerned and we've been falsly led to believe that wls = rapid wl we are dissolusioned and impatient. Then there are the true nightmare folks myself among them that don't loose normally and may even gain when the numbers are saying there is a nice calorie deficit. We're the folks on suicide watch.
Whatever you situation, it is up to you to create the agenda you need to address it. You may have a phenominal medical/ wl support team that can creat the plan that surs weight loss even in the worse case scenarios. Most of us do not although our practitioners are well meaning and believe what they tell us. If it is not working, you may have to figure out why and create your own fix.
Suggestion:
Review plans of eating.
This is another way to say diet. However, I want to distinguish between weight loss industry product and clinical research. What type of foods work best for your body? Is low fat helping or hurting you? How many carbs can you process daily without over taxing your insulin production? Do you store fat easily and have hell to release it? Will a week of stress or eating light cause you to drop a few pounds or result in weight gain?
Various ways of eating fit a multitude of metabolism scenarios. Keep a food journal and note how your body reponds to what you ingest. Then look at medical data on differrent dietary schools of thought and see what fits your profile. You may find that what you are doing, like the arguably now infamous food pyramid appears to be for many people, is not the best plan of eating for you personally.
The folks running the obesity information pipeline have no consensus on what is really happening in our bodies. The weight loss and drug industry profit machines are largely in control with plenty of government support. Results that go against the grain don't get renewed grant funding so our doctors often cling to what does not work. This is what they accepted medical literature states so it is their cofort zone.
Create your own agenda. Find your comfort zone. Find what you need to do in order to enjoy food, activity, and life without obesity as your constant nemisis. This is your universe to re create your way.
Make this week a good one. Think about what went well and what was not so nice recently. Consider what works for you and what is counter productive. Make a plan. Work your program.
...All are welcome, jump in at anytime.
For reference:
5 Day Pouch Test (5DPT) website
http://www.5daypouchtest.com/plan/theplan.html
5 Day Pouch Test Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3995048/Hold-my-feet-to-the-fire-please-Accountability-Mision/
Protein Train Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3993571/Protein-Train-Educate-me-please/#32309205
Wagon Plan Instructions
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/black_american/3650242/The-Wagon-Plan-Get-back-on-the-wagon
Overeaters Anonymous
Online Meetings Around the Clock * Information on changing eating behavior
Protein Sparing Modified Fast (PSMF)
The no op version. This version is still severe but far more liberal than the one many pre ops are given.
http://www.holisticmd.org/downloads/ProteinSparingModifiedFast.pdf
Daily calorie needs calculator
A more advanced calculator that's still easy to use.
Advanced option lets you choose from 3 different calculation methods. Enter data once for calorie needs at maintenance; plus calorie needs for 2 different levels of weight loss; and, results include a week long calorie cycling plan. Calculator takes into account age and gender as well as activity level. Links to other calculators are on the same page.
http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
Podrunner
Not just for runners. Site has a variety of workout music and music timed to progressive running programs for 5k, 8k, 10k, and speed. In place indoors, treadmill, or at the track run to the beat and you'll complete the stated distance. There is also a variety of interval training music from about 130 bpm up to to 180 bpm; and, fixed bpm workout music as well. Lengths of tracts vary but there is a speed/ length to suit most workout needs.
http://www.djsteveboy.com/mixes.html
A WORKOUT site to get you started or keep you going
http://www.exrx.net/index.html
No special equipment is required for this group of progressive workout programs designed for those new to it all and for those wanting to step it up a notch. Perhaps you can only do one or even none today. Perhaps you do quite a few already. Either extreme or somewhere in the middle, this self challenge is still for you.
http://www.twohundredsitups.com/
http://www.hundredpushups.com/
http://www.onefiftydips.com/
http://www.twohundredsquats.com/
http://www.twentyfivepullups.com/
USDA - database, nutrition facts
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
MSW Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Eat sensibly & enjoy moderation
Links: Are you a compulsive eater? for help OA meets on-line Keep Coming Back, One Day At a Time Overeaters Anonymous
LV'N MY RNY. WORKING FOR ME BECAUSE I WORK FOR IT.
on 7/26/12 4:54 pm
Still working on all these dam pictures so that I can share them, i'll be done soon, i'm nearing the end which is great.
I hope everyone is doing great especially you oldies, cause the newbies don't have to do a dam thing and it will still fall off, lucky *******s don't know how good they got it. LOL.
Anyway I can't promise I wil be posting a lot cause I probably won't, but that is just because i'm out of the habbit right now, but I do miss yall and I have not forgotten anyone.
| Fat(g) | Carbs(g) | Fiber(g) | Net C(g) | Prot(g) | KCals |
| 75.14 | 60.94 | 41.4 | 19.54 | 102.18 | 1229 |
Today however I fkcu'd up real early. I'll be spending the day trying to recover from last night's insomnia fueled nibbling.. No such thing as low carb/ low cal raisins damn me. Gotta fix this thing. The day isn't lost unless I allow it to be.
Kells
on 7/25/12 10:49 am
MSW Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Eat sensibly & enjoy moderation
Links: Are you a compulsive eater? for help OA meets on-line Keep Coming Back, One Day At a Time Overeaters Anonymous
LV'N MY RNY. WORKING FOR ME BECAUSE I WORK FOR IT.
I ***** a lot but Lord knows I'm grateful for the progress I have made 
. MsMartitaLinda and I last week pictured here at our regular 5am early bird breakfast at our usual spot. She is 5+ years post op and I am 3+ years post op. Not only is she a good friend but most of us know how much encouragement she provides through her regular "Picture a Day Keeps the Pounds Away" posts.
MsMartita's DH was our photographer on this morning.
No doubt, pictures are motivating!
Trying to keep it off? Surround yourself with like minded people or at a minimum those who do not bring out the old habits in you. Find something else to do with the folks you love but intentionally or not discourage you from eating well. There are far too many special occasions in most people's lives to stray at each one. Plan your indulgences when possible. Adjust your menu and exercise for those spur of the moment events. If you are still a compulsive eater, acknowledge your binges; track the calories over eaten; then cut back and increase your activity to avoid weight gain.
Some of us will always struggle to behave ourselves. My inner fat girl is working to kick my outer less fat girl's @$$ on a daily basis. Damn it sometimes hourly, lol. I am determined to stay in my size zero Gap/ Old Navy jeans and I measure all new clothes to ensure vanity sizing does not trick me into moving on up. While I'm 5 lbs over weight and 10 lbs above my lowest I am far from where I once was for sure. I will be back in my "lifetime" size: American Eagle Jeans size zero. There is no other option for me. RNY is a life time solution only if I make it so.
MsMartitaLinda and myself in one of her before and after collages.
Five pounds down or a hundred pounds down, remember how hard you've worked for it. Some regain? Focus on how far you've come even if you have lost ground. All pounds lost regained and then some? Figure out what went wrong and know you have done it before and will do it again. This time, you have your new insights to further empower you.
MSW Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass: Eat sensibly & enjoy moderation
Links: Are you a compulsive eater? for help OA meets on-line Keep Coming Back, One Day At a Time Overeaters Anonymous
LV'N MY RNY. WORKING FOR ME BECAUSE I WORK FOR IT.
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