BMI - 42.1 UGH!!!!

Apr 12, 2013

cheekyI have had it with this losing and gaining. I eat like a bird 6 times a day and exercise is limited but I do it daily. I have a great nephew that I chase after 12 hours a day 4 times a week and that's busy busy busy for me the whole 12 hrs. tending after a 9 month old who is just starting to really crawl and get into everything. I got so frustrated that I ate a small bag of worthers candy and a small bag of chips. Wrong thing to do I know but could not get the mental images out of my head and after a mental bout with some things. I just lost it last week and all I am losing is inches and got a lot of sagging skin all over and it really bites when it starts to pinch when I roll over in bed or move a certain way. I am at 277.4 lbs. a 5 lb. loss from last month. Yeahhhhh right. Not for me cause I see this loss every 2 or 3 months and gain it back after a shameful bout or something dealing with whatever. Counseling does help with things but it does not fix things all the time. people if you have wls please follow your surgeons orders and try and stay exercising.

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Eating healthy and keeping it moving...

Feb 03, 2013

Since seeing my surgeon in august and him telling me to just go back to the beginning...starting over..well I tried and lost 12 lbs. right off. Some stressful things came about and wow 12 lbs. and more came back. November got down on my luck and decided to just eat healthy and exercise like walking playing with my little great nephew and cut out certain foods that I did not need. I have not weighed at home but do when I go to the drs each month. I do not look at the scales and do not want to know what I weigh anymore. It just makes things worse. I will be fat the rest of my life and any surgery or any diet pill will not make me 100 lbs. lighter. I need to have the 6 inch panni removed and financially I cannot afford to have that done even with medicare paying their part. My RA is always in full flare due to I am on no Retuxin or anything but methotrexate right now and life can be very painful sometimes. I will always be greatful for losing the 145lbs. that I lost 9 yrs. ago and gained a lot of it back, but I still want to be 190 lbs. and some day I may get there but right now I am joining a gym and hoping to keep eating healthy and slowly getting me back as I need to be. Til next time..Irish aka Ms Pisces

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New med for pinched nerve in neck.....ugh

Sep 06, 2012

Found out new med makes you gain weight. Well I added on 4 lbs. Not happy with this at all. I am already depressed and pissed about the last 8 yrs. at myself. Now after gaining most of  the weight back and now without this med the problems with my neck and arm will not get better but help with the tingling nerves and pain upon trying to sleep at night. I see my WLS surgeon next week and see what I can possibly do about getting this weightloss thing going again. I need to get healthy again and soon. I was hoping to report better news and have been eating more calories than I thought. I wake up hungry and tired. I go to bed tired. Lack of exercising due to the weather and such here I can ride my stationary bike and walk only a small amount of time in the house. I cut out all my soda cravings and but started to drink coffee late nights. My pcp told me to eat more meats and cut out mostly every food item that can make a food dish. But weightloss surgery patients can't just cut out everything but protein...atleast me anyways. Meat has been a nightmare for me. I can chew it but have problems swallowing it. If I do I throw it back up or gag. I feel miserable hours after eating meat. Fish I can stomach quite well though baked. Broccoli is my favorite veggie alone without butter or anything. Protein shakes are getting to be good with the lite grape juice early mornings and late nights. 'Til next post.
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No excuses just do it...

Jul 22, 2012

Monday starts a new chapter for me. Added on another med for the messed up vertabraes in my neck from the RA. God is testing me to see how far I can be pushed. But I am going to show him how I can bounce back and take control of ME. As I know he wants anyway. Today was good. Nothing in the house to set off a craving. Back on getting in as much water and proteins as I can. Kicking the exercising back into gear: Riding stationary bike, walking, sit down weights and letting nothing or no-one stress me. Those who read this please pray for me in strength and health to accomplish some weightloss and keep on track. I have 2 home with me who are not in this journey with me and keeps me wanting food. So pray I can truely stay on track and focus on what is best for me. I will not weigh every day but 1 time a week. I have 8 yrs. to make up for...Irish aka Ms Pisces.
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Failing at WLS

Jul 15, 2012

February 2, 2004 was suppose to start a new life for me. It started off good and as time progressed and I got comfortable being smaller...BIG MISTAKE. Several surgeries(8) unrelated to WLS and stopped exercising as well as introducing old food habits back made me FAT again. My lowest weight after WLS was 212 (195 lbs. because I was with the flu). I am now last weigh in at my Rheumatologists 281.8. I am miserable and it is getting harder to keep my blood sugars regulated. I am afraid that I may be back on diabetic meds before long. I started trying a new diet called Paleo. After WLS I basicly warded off meats. Meats did not taste good or did not go down and or made me sick no matter which way they were/are cooked. Vienna sausages and soups as well as plenty of vegetables and fruits are what I mainly eat daily. I eat less than 900 calories a day and my RA keeps me from doing any strenuous exercising except walking with limitation. I have always had a good bit of loose skin all over. But hid it pretty well. I feel like I let myself and my surgeon down. I knew this was not a quick fix and started off my journey right. I want to start losing again and where do I start? I have not seen my surgeon in 4 years and feel ashamed to do so. But hopefully there is something that I can do to get to losing again. I do not want to be on a diet, to only fail miserably.
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Slowly getting things back on track and losing

Feb 06, 2010

Started November 2009 getting my life/health back in order. Started taking better care to eat healthy and exercise with limitations, but engage in some type exercise every 3 days or more often. God knows best...my car died on me in October 2009 early in the month and getting around I had to pay friend or relatives. Got kind of expensive, but things had to be done. After about the first one-hundred dollars spent on getting a ride here and there I started to walking where I needed to be. That is if it was grocery shopping or needing small stuff from the store to make do. They remodeled a grocery store a few blocks from my house so I made a shopping list, small of course and walked every time I needed something from the store. I hurt like no other each time I did it, but I did it. I rode my stationary bike on the days I did not walk. Weight and inches started coming off but slowly. The last 2 months I lost 10 lbs. I eat healthy, no junk and no sugar, white breads or sodas. I feel myself getting full and I stop. Water is still something that I cannot get down. I can drink tea without sugar or sweetner and lemon water or crystal light. I do drink orange juice every now and then. I am no where near where I want to be but am slowly getting there. I felt so embarrassed that i had gained weight and just knew my surgeon would really feel disappointed in me. I had let myself down and my surgeon. I know my tool works. I did not take care to do what I was suppose to do to keep what weight I did lose off. I lost 145 lbs. in 2 years and not having gained all of it back is a miracle in itself. Taking care of me first always and making healthy dealing with stress from family life, kids and finances. These things are under control now and hopefully I can stay on the right track and successfully reach my new set goal of 199 by end of 2010.
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Starting over

Nov 29, 2009

I started my journey 5 yrs. and 9 mos. ago. It will be 6 yrs. February 2, 2010. I new with a lot of health problems my journey/weightloss would be hard, but never thought that I would manage to gain as much weight back as I have. True eating the junk foods and stop exercising will put the weight back on for sure. I am starting a new chapter in my life and want to get my life back on track and be healthier. I am at 263.5 lbs. as of November 11, 2009. My goal was to be at 180 or 190 and I never got there. My lowest weight was 195 lbs in February 2005. Too many wake up calls and I cannot mess up anymore. Wish me well on my new weightloss journey ya'll.
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02/02/2004
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