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Weight : 317.4

Chest: 46

Waist: 52

Hips: 59.5

So, I've lost a total of 5.8 lbs and 2 inches.   I feel good, don't feel deprived.  I'm eating an average of 1500 calories a day, sometimes under, sometimes over.  It really depends on my protien intake.  Of course the meals with higher protien keep me full longer.  Not to be too informal, but my period also started this week, and to be honest, that usually comes with about a 3 to 5 lbs weight gain, so I must be doing something right.  I'm not keeping track of fat, carbs, and protien, just staying in the calorie range with foods that keep me full, which kinda force me to eat healthier.  The nice thing with just watching calories is that I can go out and eat with friends.  I also made a taco salad, using fat free sour cream and salsa for my salad dressing, and instead of meats, I used a low fat chili and baked tortilla chips with reduced fat cheese in the salad with tomatoes, cucumber and onions.  I can't even begin to tell you how filling this salad is and I got it out of a Hungry Girl recipe book.    I ate out 3 times this week.  I was scared, but Wendy's has a Grilled chicken breast sandwich that really filled me up and under 400 calories.  I went to a coney island and got a chicken finger salad, and got a small one, and had their low calorie greek dressing....and then, I went out with another friend and had a steak dinner.  The coney island I went to is Leo's and actually bought a bottle of their lo-cal greek dressing, it's only 30 calories a serving, but you would never know it's lo-cal by the taste of it.  It doesn't have that fake taste like a lot of fat free italian dressings have.  I worked out 4 days out of 7. I own my own elliptical machine, and started at 5 minutes here and there,,,,then yesterday, I got up to 40without feeling like I'm going to pass out.  I kept getting on that machine through the days to build it up to do all that at once.  So persistence pays off, but don't do more than your body is willing to.  If you cannot do 5 minutes, don't, but get back on it another time that day, and do what you can.  All of a sudden, I passed the 5 minute mark, and caught a second wind and could breathe.  It's just your body adapting to change.  It always feels like it resists change at first...and it sucks because it makes me want to stop, but I'm happy I didn't.  Well, that's my first weekly update.  

Today is Day 1 of my plan to lose my regain.  Here are my stats:

Weight 323.2

Measurments:

Breast = 46.5

Waist = 53

Hips = 60

I am doing my weight and measurments first thing in the morning every Sunday, and i will do my blog post then, so you will see my progress once a week.  Feel free to chime in some ideas, recipes, etc.    I will say that I haven't taken my measurements for years, so the numbers were shocking.  I'm 5"11, so I may seem to wear it well, but I really am disgusted that I let myself get back to this point.  However, that's why I'm doing this.  Accountability, support, give support, and to have a dose of reality.  Maybe make some friends along the way.  I do plan on doing what the biology book says, so today I will embark on my activity journey as well.  I will get on the elliptical that has been sitting in my living room for the last 3 years facing the tv, and ride it until I can't.  I will, over time, try and work myself up to an hour, but anything is better than nothing.  Happy new year everyone!

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!