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March 23rd, 2008. Wow, I visit obesityhelp frequently, but have not checked my profile for awhile. Shame on me! Not a whole lot to report. I stay active. I continue with regular exercise and I watch what I eat. I stay motivated with the way I live now. I keep all my thoughts with my health in mind. I eat goo d healthly foods. I get in all my vitamins and supplements daily. My weight flucuates between 168 and 173 (5 lbs). I'm not sure why. Some days I may be retaining water, someday's I don't. I'm happy at this weight, although I would like to drop another 10 solid pounds. Not sure if lifting weight is adding weight. My cloths fit good. I'm wearing a size 32 inch waist pants and a medium shirt. Before my weight loss surgery, I was wearing a size 48 inch waist pants and a 2XL shirt. Best of all, not more medications. I feel so healthy.

Good news. I reach a new goal. I ran the 15K Gate River Run last Saturday. I loved that run. I ran the 15K run in 1 hour 40 minutes. I plan to run in some of the local 5 and 10K runs this summer. I will run a half marathon this October with the Marine Corps. I can hardly wait until next years River Run!

I've been bouncing between the upper 160's and the lower 170's. Now I'm securely in the mid to upper 160's. It feels good at this weight. Today I weighed in at 167lbs. Thanks for reading.

November 29th, 2007 (Thursday). Weighed in this morning at 168lbs.

I visited a nutritional specialist about 2 weeks ago. I felt I was getting off track with my diet. Not so much what I was eating, but when, how much, etc. My weight has not moved for awhile. I described a typical day and she determined that I was eating too many meals. As small as they were, they all count. My typical day includes breakfast about 0630am (Oatmeal with 1 scoop of protein powder), 2 - 3 cup decaf coffee between 0730 - 0900am, protein shake or a piece of fruit around 1000am, lunch around 1230 - 100pm, piece of fruit mid afternoon (Apple / orange), snack after work (usually hungry). I would work out around 5:30pm or so (1 hour minimum), dinner around 730pm and 1 protein shake before bedtime. That totals 8 meals. I needed to readjust my plan to include only 6 meals. It's been about two weeks now. I cut out the afternoon snack and the after work snack and made more room for fluids. I have lost 6 lbs since. Awesome. Calories in, calories out. I was in balance. Not gain, no loss. Even with all the exercise I do.

New photo's taken on September 29th. The traditional side views with my pre-op pants. These pants are size 48. I always wore sizes 46 or 48. depending on what fit better.



Thanks for reading. Michael

I weighed in this morning at 172lbs. My weight fluctuates a pound or two, so no big deal. I would like to lose a little more weight. The mid 160's I would be satisfied. Now that I'm working out regularly and lifting weights, I'm not sure how that will affect my weight. I have an appointment with a nutritional counselor next month at the wellness center to get answers to some of my questions. Awesome workout this morning, high impact step aerobics. Thanks for reading.

Down to 171 this morning. 32" waist pants, Medium shirts. Woo Hoo!!

Week 44, Day 3 Post Op (Wednesday) Wow, it’s been awhile since my last post. I have been out of town (Brick, NJ) for the past two weeks to attend my daughters wedding. Amy and her new husband (Mike) are happy and currently vacationing (honeymooning) in Jamaica. I have really enjoyed my vacation here in New Jersery and visiting all my family. While here, I have also continued working out at the local Powerhouse gym. As a member of the powerhouse in Jacksonville , Fl. I have access to the power house gyms around the country. What a deal. 

This week, my weight fluctuates between 170lbs and 173lbs. I’m now wearing a size smaller, 32” waist pants. My 34” waist pants fit but are becoming loose. Loose skin around my abdomen, under my arms and my thighs is my only concern. If that’s my only concern, then I have no complaints. I’ll take it. I feel great!

  

I have strayed away from my FITDAY.COM food journal. I have been busy, but I will return to it today. I will have regular access again to the internet, so back to the old routine. That’s it for today. Thanks for reading.

Week 41, Day 4 post op. (Thursday). I had my 2nd 6 month check with Dr. Jawads office (RN Kevin) yesterday. I weighed in at 175.5lbs. We went over my labs. I need to retake my labs and come back in 6 weeks. Everything looked good except one reading was a little high. We need to make sure all is good. Kevin told me that I did not need to lose anymore weight (Yeah right!). I have lost 75% of all my excess body fat. I still want to lose at least another 10 -15 lbs. I will. He told me that at 175lbs, that would be a good healthly weight for me. OK. It was kinda nice to finally hear "You don't need to lose anymore weight". I will continue to workout and maintain my nutrition. If I lose more, great!

Week 37, Day 6 Post Op (Saturday) Today is my weekly weigh-in day. I weighed in at 174.5lbs. That's 1.5lbs weight loss from last week. Some weeks I stay the same, sometimes 3 to 4 weeks without any changes to the scale. Overall, I'm gradually continuing to lose weight. I'm getting ever so close to the 160's. WOW, I haven’t seen the 160’s since high school. As a matter of a fact, I haven’t seen my current weight since high school either.   

I attended a high impact step aerobic class this morning. I love step aerobics and look forward to the workout every week. Tomorrow I will attend the Sunday morning power pump class and afterwards I will attend the 20/20/20 cardio class. 20 minutes step, 20 minutes BOSU and 20 minutes regular exercise (Abs, push ups, jumping jacks, etc.) Right now I’m designing a new weight lifting workout to build and tone. It will be intense. It will be a total of twelve weeks of hard core weight lifting. I will continue my regular routine of aerobics.

My next goal to achieve will be to get involved in a few 5K races. I wanted to run in the annual Beaches 5 mile run, but it falls on the same day as Dr. Jawads annual picnic in Ocala. I really want to go to the picnic to meet everyone, so I will attend the next race. My ultimate running goal will be to run the 9k Gate river run in March 2008.

 Yesterday I met with my primary doctor for my 3 month check-up. I took my blood labs August 2^nd,07. My thyroid was high – 53.94 (I missed some doses of my synthroid) So I took another set of labs on August 20^th. My thyroid was with normal limits. Dr. Romine was completely impresses with how everything has changed (to the better). My blood pressure was 112 over 76. My resting pulse was 56. I weighed in at 178lbs (with clothes) My last visit I weighed in at 199lbs (22lb weight loss). No medications, no problems. I just need to continue using synthroid for my thyroid.

 My blood labs:                      Level                      Range

 Thyroid                                   2.74                        0.34 – 5.60

 Cholesterol                           133

 HDL (Good)                          35 (a little low)

 LDL (bad)                              82

 Triglyceride                           81                           40 – 150

 Glucose                                   82                            74-118

 Calcium                                   9.2                           8.6 – 10.3

 Total protein                           7.3                           6.5 – 8.1

 Vitamin B-12                          609                          180 – 914

 My FITDAY food journal is available for public viewing:

http://www.fitday.com/WebFit/PublicJournals.html?Owner=jaxbchwaterman
Thanks for reading