stacey1273
I've regained....time to work on this! For real!
Dec 30, 2016
I had WLS in 2002, I was 30 years old and very close to 400lbs, and it changed my life for the better. It got rid of my high blood pressure and diabetes (things that killed my mom), and I got down down to 246 (I'm 5'11). I was successful for about 7 years, then noticed the weight creeping back on. My work was a sit down office job. At the end of 2012 I was back up to 292, but, I decided to go back to college, and started part time while working full time. The weight really came on. I would lose about 20-30 lbs each semester break mostly by starving myself and working out, only to regain, i was in a very unhealthy relationship with food. due to no time cuz of school and work, I was eating all take out or microwave foods. Nothing good, and healthy. I am now back up to 325. What did open my eyes was this year at school, I took a Nutritional Biology class. Unlike anything any doctor had told me, the class, which is basically based on science, had taught me that although we are all different, when you are an obese child, you have a very high risk of becoming an obese adult, due to how being obese as a kid changes your body's biological makeup and you become someone who gains weight very easily. You have extra fat cells and your body will never get rid of them. You can shrink them by losing weight, but they will alsways be there. The other thing that class taught me was about working out. We are in a day and age where they say 3-4 10 minute workouts should help us, but not according to science. Our body burns glucose, then glycogen, then fat,,,,so for us to burn fat, the class recommends an obese person to work themselves up to an hour of cardio exercise a day to burn fat and anything 15 minutes or less won't cut it...and from experience, I beleive that. The book says the best thing is to lower calories each day by at least 500 a day to see the weight come off. Over time you have to change the workout routine and the calorie count. The workouts will change and that's due to incorporating muscle bearing exercises, but to start the first 6 months with just cardio and to focus on calories rather than a certain food to get all nutrients in. Well, we know with WLS, we have to eat protien first. So , here's my contract to myself that I plan. I want to lose 100 lbs in 2017, starting 1/1/17. The plan is to eat 1500-1700 calories a day to start out, and work myself up to 1 hour of cardio a day. I plan on keeping a food and workout diary. In this diary, I will also be keeping my inches lost by taking my measurments. I hate taking selfies, so I may just start in order to see differences. If I feel this is too extreme, and that's after the 1st month, I may do some changing up, but I feel confident about this. I feel hope. I need this. I feel so unhealthy and want to get back to healthiness. Yes, 246 may not be healthy to some, but it's not about that. The number isn't everything. Why, because I wasn't diabetic, I had no co morbities, and my measurements were in a size 18W, where right now I'm 10 sizes bigger than that. I felt good, and felt like I could do anything physically. It runs me out of breath just to walk, and at 44, that's not good. I know I did this to myself. I'm not throwing a pity party, or asking for attention in that aspect. I'm looking for accountability and getting myself back on track. Happy New years!
