Fruit is the DEBBIL!

Jan 26, 2010

Where to begin!  I'm doing pretty good so far, but no thanks to the last month!  The weight loss was coming along fine, then I read somewhere on these boards that I should include some healthy fruit in my diet.  Well about a month ago, I started consuming cantaloupe on a daily basis.  So I would eat cantaloupe sometimes 2 or 3 times a day, it was becoming my new favorite healthy snack.  It is sooooo delicious.  People say nice complex carbs are good for you, well they ain't good for this chick.  I didn't lose one pound of weight for an entire month, not an ounce, not a gram of weight.  My calories are always under a 1000 a day, but I just couldn't figure out why I wasn't losing weight.  I was like, great, I'm done losing already what a failure.  

Then it dawned on me that my newest best friend, the cantaloupe, HAD to be the culprit.  Not only was I not losing weight, I found myself craving carbs like crazy this last month.  There is a connection there.  So about 2 weeks ago, I purposely stopped eating fruit.  What happens??  Within a couple days the scale started to drop... and I don't mean just any drop, I have lost my last 10lbs in the last 2 weeks alone.  I started making sure I drink 4 - 25oz glasses of water per day and I eliminated the fruits.  The carb cravings have stopped.   Now, instead of having complex carbs every single day, I will have them sporadically.  I just think I was overdoing it.  But, the weird thing is, I can eat simple carbs and not get carb cravings.  Every day I eat 1oz of cheddar with a serving of reduced fat Wheat Thins (about 16 crackers) for lunch.  This gives me no problems.  So its a major role reversal here.  What should be good for me, is absolutely not.  Perhaps when I get into maintenance mode someday I will reintroduce fruits, but until then, it's detrimental to my weight loss.

I find that now I can pretty much eat anything I want.  I don't have full blown dumping syndrome though.  The other day I had a few chicken wings, the bbq variety, not fried.  After I ate them, I got sweaty, nauseated, and my nose gets real runny.  This is how I dump.  This lasts for like 1.5 hours or so then i'm fine.  It's weird though because I can eat sugar and this doesn't happen, it only happens when I eat something that MIGHT be too high in fat or a mixture of that and too much sugar.  This also happens if I eat a little too much.  I don't indulge in sweets often though, maybe once every couple weeks.  I'm a pretty good girl when it comes to this RNY thing.  The weirdest thing is this runny nose.  When I get full, my nose runs like crazy.  

So anyway, as of now i'm down 55lbs, and that's after 3 1/2 months so it's pretty darn good.  My first real goal is 45lbs away though, so I have some work to do.  That will put me at 150.  But, at least the scale is moving again!

I have to have my abdominal mass removed in 3 weeks, so I'm not hitting the gym anytime soon.  I will wait until i'm recovered from that surgery to start back at the gym.  For me, it's just not worth getting into a routine right now and then having to quit for 2 months.  It makes it harder to start back up, in my opinion.

I feel pretty good.  I had my labs drawn, and my vitamin D was deficient, so I'm not taking 50,000 IU's of it once a week to hopefully bump that back up.  Everything else was looking good though.  My hair is falling out by handfuls now, I'm sure i'll be bald by time it's over, but it does grow back.  I will suffer with that worse than everyone else probably because i've had so many surgeries in the last year and still have one to go.  Hair loss is not only cause by not enough protein, but also the effects of anesthesia and surgery on the body.

I still can't look in the mirror and tell i'm any different.  The only thing that reassures me I'm doing good is the pictures I take on a monthly basis.  I take a picture in the same one piece skirtless bathing suit.  Now, the bathing suit is starting to fall off of me, but I will continue to do my shots in that suit every month.  It's the only way I know I'm doing good!  Plus you can really tell and see the details of where I'm losing weight at.

Well that's all for now.... hopefully when I update again the scale will still be moving!

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