Well, my pre-op was scheduled and finalized today. On June 13th I will be doing my appointment with the surgeon at the hospital to go over the final details of the surgery. I am also going to be meeting with nutritionist again to go over diet and requirements pre and post op. On June 11th begins the preop diet so I am almost there!
Past 2 days at the gym I did C25K week 4 day 1 and day 2
day 1:
Time: 32 minutes.
Calories Burned: 372.5 cal.
Distance: 1.93 mi
day 2:
Time: 32 minutes
Calories burned: 353 calories
Distance: 1.96
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Friday, May 25, 2012
30 days!
Thirty days, exactly one month from today, begins a start for a new life for me :). I am really excited and feel like this is it. This is the final stretch of this journey that has been years in the making! I will be starting liquid diet on June 11 so that will definitely be a challenge but one that I am looking forward to, as I know it will help jump start weight loss prior to the surgery :)
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
32 days left
So my little count down thing is showing me as having 32 days until surgery. That means 17 days until I start my pre-op liquid diet.
During these next 32 days I am challenging myself to drop some weight. I am challenging myself to get down to a weight of at LEAST 290. I have bounced back up and down so much as of late, it is so frustrating, but i know I am doing it to myself. I started going to a boot camp program at my gym on saturdays... I have gone to 2 classes thusfar and love them. They are VERY physically demanding on me, and very difficult, but I know by the end of the class I will be a stronger person that has been able to work through this. I weighed in at 309 at the gym, so my goal is to lose 19 pounds before the surgery. I know that I can do this if i put my mind really to it... I am guessing that with pre-op diet i will be able to easily shed 8 pounds minimum, considering its 2 liquid meals a day, with only 1 regular healthy meal. I need to get back into exercise mode, and know that I am doing it to myself finding reasons (some valid, but reasons none-the-less) to not be able to go during the week.
So, I also found another 5K I am interested in. The registration is already open, and I am waiting to get paid to be able to register. So, as of right now, I am looking at doing two different 5K's, one in August (on august 11th) and one in November (november 3rd). One is "Color Run" and the other is "color me rad".... same idea with them, fun and relaxed with no time constraints, but still a '5k' in that sense. I have been taking it easy with c25k... repeating each week at least once so that I know I can do it... I think its helping, but it does mean the program won't be 9 weeks for me, more like 18 weeks... plus with the surgery coming up in 4 1/2 weeks I will have to take a break from c25k for recovery, although i don't think I will need to start back all the way at week 1... (I am in week 4), I will try week 3 to see if I can do it sucessfully after surgery when cleared, hwoever if needed I can drop down to week 2
Alright, so I am going to wrap this up (not even sure if anyone read this, or if just for me, but either way still wrapping it up). leave a comment if you want :)
During these next 32 days I am challenging myself to drop some weight. I am challenging myself to get down to a weight of at LEAST 290. I have bounced back up and down so much as of late, it is so frustrating, but i know I am doing it to myself. I started going to a boot camp program at my gym on saturdays... I have gone to 2 classes thusfar and love them. They are VERY physically demanding on me, and very difficult, but I know by the end of the class I will be a stronger person that has been able to work through this. I weighed in at 309 at the gym, so my goal is to lose 19 pounds before the surgery. I know that I can do this if i put my mind really to it... I am guessing that with pre-op diet i will be able to easily shed 8 pounds minimum, considering its 2 liquid meals a day, with only 1 regular healthy meal. I need to get back into exercise mode, and know that I am doing it to myself finding reasons (some valid, but reasons none-the-less) to not be able to go during the week.
So, I also found another 5K I am interested in. The registration is already open, and I am waiting to get paid to be able to register. So, as of right now, I am looking at doing two different 5K's, one in August (on august 11th) and one in November (november 3rd). One is "Color Run" and the other is "color me rad".... same idea with them, fun and relaxed with no time constraints, but still a '5k' in that sense. I have been taking it easy with c25k... repeating each week at least once so that I know I can do it... I think its helping, but it does mean the program won't be 9 weeks for me, more like 18 weeks... plus with the surgery coming up in 4 1/2 weeks I will have to take a break from c25k for recovery, although i don't think I will need to start back all the way at week 1... (I am in week 4), I will try week 3 to see if I can do it sucessfully after surgery when cleared, hwoever if needed I can drop down to week 2
Alright, so I am going to wrap this up (not even sure if anyone read this, or if just for me, but either way still wrapping it up). leave a comment if you want :)
Friday, May 18, 2012
Thoughts on final goal...
Well, not doing too well remembering to post often. I am 37 days away from surgery and will definitely be posting more the closer I get.
Today I am posting about goals after surgery. Now, when you have surgery the goal of what is considered a "success" is to be at 60% of excess weight loss. So first excess weight must be determined. For my height a "goal" would be 150. That puts meat a body weight with bmi of 22.8. That is normal. My actual goal would be 175 but that is still considered "overweight". 60% of my excess body weight loss would leave me weighing in over 200 lbs, with a loss of 99 lbs. to me while that is a big loss I know I can do better. For me to reach less than 300 I need to lose 70% of excess body weight. If I lose 80% it would put me af a weight of 184. Still overweight but a much healthier overweight. I have read and talked to people who have done it. Who went from 300 lbs down to 140 so I know it is possible. I just need to keep the mind frame of how to achieve it.
Later tonight I will post about my Saturday mornings :)
Today I am posting about goals after surgery. Now, when you have surgery the goal of what is considered a "success" is to be at 60% of excess weight loss. So first excess weight must be determined. For my height a "goal" would be 150. That puts meat a body weight with bmi of 22.8. That is normal. My actual goal would be 175 but that is still considered "overweight". 60% of my excess body weight loss would leave me weighing in over 200 lbs, with a loss of 99 lbs. to me while that is a big loss I know I can do better. For me to reach less than 300 I need to lose 70% of excess body weight. If I lose 80% it would put me af a weight of 184. Still overweight but a much healthier overweight. I have read and talked to people who have done it. Who went from 300 lbs down to 140 so I know it is possible. I just need to keep the mind frame of how to achieve it.
Later tonight I will post about my Saturday mornings :)
Friday, May 4, 2012
Surgery date
Well I have the surgery scheduled. Originally they put me in for may 29th, however my work contract is having me work til June 1st so I couldn't do this date. I have been rescheduled to July 2nd! I start a liquid diet on June 18th, and do my pre op meeting on June 25th I believe. So I am pretty excited to be on this journey. I will post another update once I get on my regular computer. I haven't been on it in a while which is why I haven't updated.
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