100 Freakin' Pounds

Jul 10, 2011

It's official,  I've lost 100 pounds, and celebrated in the best way today, by biking to Leesburg and back, a 33 mile trek.  I couldn't have done that 6 months ago, and it feels so good.  I feel so good.  

I've still got 17 to goal, and it's getting harder to lose, and harder to keep away from junk.  It seems I can tolerate just about anything food wise, and although I have restriction, it's no longer like at the beginning where I could eat only a couple ounces at a time.  Right now, I can easily eat 1500 calories in a day if I don't watch myself.  So that's what I'm doing, logging everything again and exercising daily.  I'm aiming for 1000 calories a day, 80 grams protein, and I'm trying to eat HEAVY proteins, to keep myself full.  It's too easy to eat the slider stuff... which was OK when I was newly post op, but now just slides right through me.  Protein drinks do that, and don't keep me satisfied long.

I'm also battling constipation.  This forum is so valuable for providing advice, and information about whether what you're going through is normal.  I've always had a slow system, but gosh, now, if I don't take miralax every other day at least, I get painfully stopped up, and the descriptions people have posted.... giving birth, baseball sized, etc.  are so true.  So in addition to my supplements, I'm a faithful miralax user.  Don't leave home without it.

Exercise is a joy and a burden.  It's easy to let it slide too.  But I really do enjoy getting stronger and faster, and fitter.  I get up and go to the gym first thing, and get it out of the way.  It's too easy to make excuses after work.  The one thing I've put on hold is running outside.  We have tons of sidewalks around my new home, and that's the problem.  The streets are busy, even at 5:30 a.m., and I can't run in the road.  The sidewalks have so many cracks, I'm afraid of falling.  I've fallen twice and the second fall I slid on the asphalt in the street, and scraped myself up badly.  I'm now gun shy of falling, so I'm back to the treadmill inside.   The workout isn't as great, but I guess, I need to push the speeds and inclines to make up for the cushy surface.  It's also great inside, as it is getting hot out there, and I can catch the news and weather while running, so I'm multitasking while exercising. 

I've moved during this journey, from Charlotte NC to just outside Washington DC in VA.  I'm loving VA, and am becoming much more active, determined to be a tourist here and experience everything.  I started a job (the reason for the move) and I'm loving that.  I had a long unemployment, over 2 years, and it's great to be back in the workforce.  I'm finding it difficult to drink enough water at work.  I get caught up in my tasks and forget, so my goals are not being met there at all.   I guess I need to get on a forum and ask for tips and tricks to keep my fluids up.

I've always loved shopping, and now it's fabulous.  I bought a size 10 pair of shorts today and a medium top.  Looks great.  The items I swore not to buy in size 14, but did anyway are swimming on me. So now I'm going to try and find a tailor that doesn't cost a fortune and see about having some stuff taken in, cause I really like some of the stuff I've bought.  My work is super casual, but I don't follow the norm, nope,  since I now can wear nice stuff, I'm gonna wear it.  Last week, I wore a dress or skirt everyday, even though most folks are in jeans and tops.  In fact, I'm saving buying jeans, until they're a size 8, most likely my next 17 pounds, aka. goal.  Then I'm gonna splurge and buy a great pair of jeans.  Who know, they might even be a size 6.

OK, Haven't blogged in a while, sorry this is so long.  I'll try and do better, shorter, more frequent updates.  But you see, life is so much fun now, it's hard to go backwards and focus on the weight loss stuff.  I have so much more to do.

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