hercules411
hercules411 uploaded a photo 15 years, 5 months ago
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Feet not so ugly - When I weighed around 500 pounds. I had very thick callouses on my feet... especially my heels. Now that I am losing weight, I notice that the callouses are going away. My feet are...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 5 months ago
Now I understand my NUT's warning about "grazing". - When I met the first few times with my nutritionist before my weight loss surgery, she repeatedly cautioned me about "grazing". That's when you just nibble at food almost constan...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 5 months ago
Post WLS fast food - In an earlier post, I asked members the first "Fast Food" they ate after WLS. Here are the top two choices and their nutritional information:
Item ...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 5 months ago
Are people treating me differently? - Now that I'm losing weight, I find that more women that I don't even know are glancing at me and smiling. (don't tell my wife )
The two other times in my life when I dropped ...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
Taking care of yourself - Most of us have worked with people who call off from work constantly. They're the ones who abuse the company sick leave policy, and make it tougher for the rest of us who have to ...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
Still obese - I haven't been into a doctor's office in a few weeks. But if I stepped on a scale, they would say I'm still obese.
I weigh 247 lbs and have a 46 inch waist.
At six foot on...
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What I ate today - This gives you a pretty good idea of what I've been eating since I could eat solid foods post RNY.
B- 3 microwaved egg whites & mustard
S- 1 scoop of Isopure protein powder in...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
Monday Morning weigh in - I lost four pounds last week. The scale read "247 lbs." this morning.
That means I have surpassed one of my goal weights... that was to weigh 250 lbs by this coming April so...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
Powerless over food - A Sunday morning program about sex addiction had one addict say "At the core of addiction is powerlessness" I don't know if that's an actual word.. but I thought about the quote i...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
Stalls? Gains? Just bumps in the road. - Stalls are a much talked about issue here on OH. As you can see on my post-op weight loss graph below, it's been an issue for me as well.
You can see th...
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WOW I'm "extra large" - "No kidding" you say?
I reached another milestone in my weight loss journey this past week. Those black microfiber size 48 slacks that were tight a few weeks ago started feeli...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
WOW! I fixed a toilet! - Talk about a glamorous benefit from weight loss surgery! Today I fixed the upstairs toilet. We kept having to jiggle the handle and a simple flapper replacement wasn't fixing it....
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
What led me to choose weight loss surgery - I used to love cheese. I probably could have finished a whole wheel of Camembert in one sitting during those crazy years. In fact, I could probably eat anything with fat in it unt...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
New avatar - I don't want my posts here linked to facebook.
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
What I eat - My food plan is still pretty spartan. I drink at least one protein drink a day. Sometimes it's a shake from the Eggface blog. But, many times I just dissolve a scoop of powder i...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
A little fear when I eat. - I was eating about 2 ounces of cooked shrimp today when I realized I was a little bit afraid. I have gotten chicken stuck in my chest a few times previously, and it was very unple...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
I got RNY -- the easy way out! - A poster on the main forum mentioned how since she smoked, she couldn't take the "easy way out" and have RNY.
This is my response:
RNY the "easy way out"?
Spending six m...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
Weight loss "rules" for myself - A fellow OH member who is having a bit of a crisis asked me for my thoughts on ways to get her weight loss back on track. It gave me a chance to put into words some ideas that have...
hercules411 wrote a blog post 15 years, 6 months ago
Monday morning weigh in - The scale read 251 lbs this week. That's a loss of nine pounds last week. Eight pounds the week before. That's so much better than the ZERO pounds I lost three weeks ago.
Only o...
