Food and Update

Hey guys. Sorry I stopped posting again for a few days there. I was sick. Ran a fever of over 100 for 5 days, and couldn't get it to break. I was NOT a happy person, or very much fun to be around. I didn't get to the gym at all this week because of it. My eating wasn't like it normally is either, because I just felt so bad.

Now, having said that. I hit my 6 month surgery anniversary this week. As of 6 months out, I had lost 112.8 pounds, and 126.75 inches. Not to bad at all. I will also be posting my 6 month picture soon too.

My weight loss and inches for this week were 2.4 pounds and 4 inches lost. Which considering that I did nothing but lay in bed this week, is pretty good. It was a very VERY hard week for me though. I'm really struggling with some food issues lately. Feeling very frustrated and wanting things that I know I can't have if I want to continue on the path I'm on. I can have them, but if I choose to, I will start to undo everything I've fought for these past 6 months. I do not want that to happen. I've come too far to throw it all away now. Its just really hard, and its effecting my attitude towards everything else. I've got to figure out some way to work through this. I also had never really gotten in the habit of measuring my food. Which is very dangerous. So I have started measuring everything now. Here is my food and water for today.

Food

Well... today went pretty well. I didn't get in any exercise really, but I did pretty good with my food.

Breakfast - one slice double fiber bread, low fat peanut butter, one ounce kashi

Bottle of water
peppermint lifesaver (not sugar free)

Lunch - a third of a pecan crusted chicken breast, a couple forks of corn (my size forks, 4 or 5 kernels), a few SMALL bites of potato, and a small piece of cantaloupe

2 cups of water

Supper - one fourth of the quesadilla burger

have water now, will drink several cups before bed.

Food journal

Hey guys. I know I haven't been doing very good on keeping you all up to date with how things are going. I'm sorry about that. I am going to try very hard to stay on top of this. I am almost 6 months out now. Tuesday will be 6 months. I am starting to struggle a little with the food stuff. I am starting to crave my "old" style of food, the stuff with a lot of really strong flavors. It is critical that I don't get into a place where I allow myself to start eating that way again. So, I'm going to try to post my food daily on here, as a way to kind of keep myself honest and on track with it all. I would greatly appreciate your support and encouragement while I continue my journey. I have lost 110 pounds so far. I still have a long way to go, but I am more then half way to my ideal weight. I'm not sure what my "goal" weight is right now, but I'm more then half way there. I have dropped under 250, and I refuse to let myself ever go back above it. That said... here is what i ate today.

Breakfast: One piece of bread with lowfat peanut butter and kashi

2 bottles of water

Lunch: 1/4 of quesadilla burger from Applebee's

1 bottle of water
1 cup of water

Supper: Steak (cut in strips cooked with onions, served in gravy.... i didn't eat onions and very little of the gravy), a tiny bit of rice, and squash cooked in lowfat butter made with olive oil, and onions

2 cups of water

one piece of sugar free gum

I also walked a little over 3 miles this morning at the park

Today is my weekly weigh in and measurements. my new weight is 245.2, which is actually up from last week, but I'm sure its muscle. Jerod is working me out really good lately. I lost 2.5 total inches this week, again not as good as i have been doing, but that is partially due to muscle too. I'm not too upset with it. Another week next week, I just need to step it up a little and be more careful with food.

See you all tomorrow!
Love, Steph

5 month post op stats

Ok, so I'm about a month late getting them on here. Sorry about that. Better late then never though, right?? I had made a goal a while back that I wanted to hit 100 lbs lost by my 5 month anniversary. That meant I needed to lose 20 lbs that month. Now, I had seriously slowed down in my weight loss the 2 months before that, so I had pretty much given up on it happening. Well, a week before my 5 month mark, i realized i was 10 pounds away from my goal. Keep in mind this means I'd lost 10 lbs in three weeks. Well, I decided I was going to try to reach my goal still. So I would need to do in ONE week, what I'd done in THREE weeks. I talked to my trainer and told him about my goal and that I really wanted to try to hit it. I worked my self to death that day, and then went in on my own the next day and did all cardio. Well in my quest to get 10 lbs in a week, I decided I was going to try the elliptical. I have never had any success on the thing, for some reason I just can't do it. I usually only did one cardio machine, for a half hour. That day I did the tread climber, the bike, the treadmill.... and the elliptical.... for 20 minutes each. It was awesome! Until the next day... I couldn't do anything with my right leg. Turns out I'd pulled a muscle doing the elliptical. I ended up not getting to have a real work out the rest of that week, because I was hurt. They wouldn't even let me go to the gym on Saturday. Well, Friday I weighed... and I was at 98 pounds lost. And Saturday was 5 months out, I just knew I could get it then. So I weighed Saturday morning, because I always weigh in the morning. I had GAINED two pounds. I was devastated. I was in a bad place all day. Very upset and frustrated. So I decided that I would give myself Saturday, since it would still technically be a part of that month, and weigh on Sunday morning to get my official 5 month weigh in. The results were.... well.... priceless... I started my journey weighing 355 at the surgeons office. On Sunday, I weighed 254.4. I had done it. I lost not only 20 lbs in a month, which is amazing that far post op, but I had lost 100 lbs total!!! So if that wasn't enough.... I did my measurements for the anniversary too, and I had lost a total of 113.25 inches. I hit the 100 pounds, and the 100 inches mark on the same day!! It was an absolutely amazing day. Completely made up for Saturday. Gotta try to keep that attitude positive, it always works out in the end!!