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February 25 Talking about 2/7/08Well, it's been a while since I have blogged, and I guess it's cuz I have been depressed. I know that this is the point of using the blog... I gained 5 pounds the first month. Not sure what happened. I followed a diet, and exercised more than before. I guess I can't do the same diet as jim. I became so focussed on calories that I think I was eating more than I was before I actually started counting. This month has not been good because I haven't followed a plan. I am still going to work out, but not as much as I should in order to lose the weight. I am scared too. Me and Jim decided to try for a baby, and I guess I am afraid of the weight gain and if it will come back off. I don't want to end up like I was before my gastric bypass! But, I have a good guy to help me and I am soo glad about that. I also have the support of this club, and I need to reach out for it. 2/7/08 February 07 Month EndThe weigh in... On 1/31 I weighed in. As you may or may not know, I do not want to know how much I weigh as I lose weight.I have just experienced too much failure when I stop at "good enough". However my wife knows how much I weigh as well as everyone she works with at the hospital. Her reaction was awesome! She was SOOOO trying not to give away that I had done well by hidding her smiles behind the collar of her jacket. i am on record of predicting 20-25lbs loss in the first month.
As a side note, Les is not doing so well with her weight. It is completely my fault. I put us both on a diet I had designed for me and she has not lost a pound. She has joined a gym and will continue the diet she was doing before when she was stable. The combo should lead to weight loss. Please feel free to send her love and encouragement.
Thank-you so much!
Jim January 27 Wait-InThis time I am thinking about NOT checking my weight as I diet. That way it would be a lot harder to have a sense of accompllishment too early on. I mean there are LOTS of ways to tell how well I am doing: how clothes fit, comments from others, the distance between my belly and the steering wheel... And at the end of the day, I don't have a weight related goal, I have a 36" pair of Levis goal.
So what would happen is that I would weigh myself on 2/1 but with my eyes closed, My wife however would see what I weighed. So I am nervous but excited. Les and I went to Snowfest in Frankenmuth (national snow and ice carving competition and general carnival atmosphere) and I wore my belt at one MORE hole down! It is such a great feeling! I have hardly worn a groove around the hole I had gotten down to last week!
So that is it for this week, I love reading everyone's blogs and sites. My wife came up with a funny observation:
I will be seeing more of you, when there is less of you to see!
Jim January 23 Damn Dog!So today I did some emotional eating... I have always wanted a decent size dog since I was a kid. Well the opportunity occured for us to take a beautiful 1 year old yellow lab for a "test drive". She is SUCH a good dog. We had her for almost a week and we decided that we could just not keep her. She is very lively and with my wife and i gone 10-12 hours a day, she would have to be in her crate, which is absolutely heart-breaking. It just was not fair to the dog.
Well, knowing it was the right thing to do did not make it any easier. So we cashed in the Applebee's card my brother gave us for Christmas. I got a serloin, Jac/Mac-n-cheese, onion rings, hot wings for an appetizer and a chocolate mousse for dessert.
So I skipped my late night 200cal snack and I will take 200cal out of my menu each day for the next week. I think the important thing is that I do not use this to justify thinking that continuing my diet is not worth it. It was an unscheduled splurge but I think I will be able to mke the calories work.
I am going to miss that dog though.
Jim January 19 Weekend!Hey, anyone else noticing more food staying in their fridge now-a-days? We used to eat out about 7 meals a week and even though we are eating almost exclusively out of the kitchen now, food seems to be lasting FOREVER!.
It is official, the first person (my boss) mentioned that I looked skinnier. I really feel like I am losing that life-sucking brown fat that suffocates your organs first. My big belly is getting softer. Big-fat hard bellys are a bad thing.
My biggest problem this week ironicly is my sucess. I always feel like I can stop once I lose enough to notice. I have such a long way to go and this is where I start to employ my secret weapon (help). It is kinda difficult though. With people telling me that I am looking better, that just (in me) reinforces the notion that I can stop. This time is different. I will make it to 36" waist jeans. I want to do all those things I have forgotten I like: taking pictures, playing softball, riding my bike and being able to run and run.
Working on my health may not be the MOST important thing in my life right now but I take it with me were ever I go, and it can always be worked on.
Jim Thanks for visiting!
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