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This is hard.....
Jan 19, 2011
I knew it would be, oh man did I know it would be. I understood my feelings would be everywhere, that I would have to take vitamines, have trouble with certain foods, eating would be completely different, and my habbits would have to change.I never thought that I would get to the point of being concerned if my calories go over or get close to 1000 a day!
I had an issue last week......
First of all I keep a food diary, so I know how much protein I'm getting and how many calories I'm consuming on a daily basis.
I had called my nutritionist asking her how many calories I should be consuming a day at 4 months out. Her reply was 600-at the most 800. Ok, that's cool, I can do that.
At the gym I scared a friend of mine, lately I had been having these "head rushes" where my vision would go black, the room would spin, and everything would seem distorted. This gen occured when I would stand up. I took it to moving to fast. It had been happening on and off nothing to major. Monday this week it happened again, but it wouldn't stop. I'd sit down, think I was good, then stand up and bam again, there it would be, it did this for about 5 mins.
I called my surgeons office on the way home from the gym that day. My blood work came out amazing, nothing there, she asked questions about how much I weighed, how many calories I was eating, protein etc. I told her all, minimum of 60 protein, 600-800 (rarely 800) daily on calories. I then told her I worked out gen a minimum of an hour and a half a day, with possibily a day off break. She said it sounds like my blood pressure and that I need my calories to be upped. I called my dietician, told her the same story, she was very skeptical about my working out. Apparently most wls patients that they've had stop working out around this time out (which is sad to hear). I then had to stop her and tell her very seriously that I infact do work out that much. RIght away she told me oh, then you need 1000-1200 calories a day.
Food diary, easy.
Working out, piece of cake.
Healthy food choices, alright done!
Upping my calories freaks me out! I know it's something I have to do, I just feel so abnormaly weird about it. I know I shouldn't. Medically they told me to up them, and that's good right? That I work out enough to need more calories, but my mind makes it so hard. I feel almost as if I'm having 1000 a day now what's it going to be like in 12 months?
The hardest part of this journey is the mental part of everything...........
I know we all have to work through it,
but I realize that I have a problem....... and It's something I def. have to work through.
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Columbus, NE
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BMI
Jan 10, 2010
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Highest recorded weight
298 lbslbs
149 lbslbs
