Wendy M.
Avoidance?
Mar 29, 2010
I haven't posted in a couple months, and I think it is just that I am avoiding it because of my difficulties right now with grazing. I am not losing any more, but not really gaining - just going back and forth about 6-7 pounds from the 190's to the 200's - maybe I am having an issue with being under 200. Maybe it is a trigger for some reason. Can't figure it out, but am doing a couple different "back-on-track" programs. One is called "Back-On-Track With Barbara" and the other is "WLS Success for Life". They are both on-line plus workbooks/assignments. I am learning a lot about myself, and I am sharing the information with my husband for some added support and encouragement. He is even trying to follow the same sort of eating/exercise plan I am doing to help him take off some extra weight. I have scheduled exercise into my calendar at regular times, and even set up a back-up exercise plan for each day in case something unexpected interferes with what I have scheduled. (Before I would just say "well I guess I can't exercise today" if something came up - now I am planning ahead so that I don't have an excuse.) I am journaling my food and emotions everyday to see if I can find some pattern - some food that affects me more than others, or some emotion that is contributing to my grazing. My meals and snacks are planned and are right on plan. It is the grazing (especially late afternoon and into the evening) that is getting me in trouble.I go to the West side of the state this week for my last post-op appt. I have healed well, the seromas are all gone, the incision line looks great. I am very happy with the results of the surgery. I just wish the legs weren't so bad. I think that is where 70% of my fat is right now. But that will come in time - and spandex works wonders : )
Bloomsday (a 7.5 mile walk/run here in Spokane) is coming up the first part of April. I had initially planned to try and jog part of it, but a couple things have changed that part of the plan. I will be walking it with my husband (his first time!) who is disabled and I want to be there for encouragement for him (and a couple other gals who are walking with us as well). But an additional problem is my knees. They use to give me a lot of trouble before I lost all this weight, but were doing gerat. Then I started working out with a trainer who had me do this one stretch that did something to my knees and they get pretty painful after a few miles. I really need to get them checked out and perhaps get some exercises from a physical therapist to strengthen those muscles. That trainer I had has moved on to somewhere else (he was right out of college and I think worked at the gym while going through college). Later on, I may get another trainer, but for now I am doing well and doing some classes at the gym as well as training for Bloomsday. And I also have a half-marathon coming up in late September that I plan on at least walking.
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Spokane, WA
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47.0
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Surgery
09/05/2008
Surgery Date
Aug 12, 2008
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