Behemoth350 ain't 350 anymore....

Jun 21, 2010

Behemoth350 is an email address I have and that was the weight I was when I created it.  My weight fluctuated so much that I would have been updating the name all the time so I just left it there.  I'm happy to not be anywhere near that weight anymore at just under 11 weeks out from surgery.  I am sitting at 286 lbs as of today, which is down 88 lbs since I started this process and 98 lbs down from my heaviest! 

I'm not one to talk much, but I'll try to give some info and hopefully it will help someone.  It wasn't until about 3 weeks ago that I finally started to get energy post surgery and that is when I also started working out.  Goal is 5 days a week at the gym with 3 lifting and doing cardio on all 5.  It is going well and I am starting to get more strength back.  I wondered how lifting was going to be after surgery and I thought I would just be doing more circuit type training, but I'm already seeing that I'll be able to get back to my semi-pro football days of supersetting and making every workout into, well, a workout.  So I am happy about that and trying to maintain as much muscle mass as possible while losing all this weight.

Eating is getting better, but I currently will not eat chicken.  All those weeks of only eating chicken, turkey, and fish took its toll on me and I can't stand chicken.  I think the pureed stuff is what did it to me.  I am on the last stage of my diet before I get to maintenance and no real problems.  I have been able to eat everything I have tried.  Stuff like salad and rice, where I have heard a lot of people having problems goes down easy for me.  And NO DUMPING yet.  Hopefully never.  I'm very cautious about my sugar intake and plan on always staying that way.  The only problem I have had is that on occassion I haven't chewed enough when I'm talking and not concentrating on the food.  A few of the times I actually had to throw the food up, but don't want to get in the habit of that.  But I did find a good remedy that has really worked for me if it does feel like meat is stuck, and that is meat tenderizer.  Just swallowing a bit of that takes care of what is stuck in 2-5 minutes.  The only times I threw up is when I haven't had it with me. 

Always remembering prtein first in the meal and if something happened like when I threw up I made sure to have a protein shake to replace the protein that I just lost (and more).  I'm glad that I have been able to try foods, and I'm not talking about greasy foods or stuff that is breaded, etc, but foods thatsome have problems with that are approved foods.  But it does worry me a little that I don't have problems and I hope I don't overdo it because my body is handling everything so well.

Well next I hope to post some pictures.  Some right before surgery and some current and then every once in a while to show continued progress.  I'm going to keep pushing and I hope you will too!!!

0 Comments