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!!

4 Month Post Op totals and Gym Today

Hey guys. I just got home from the gym, and want to get this posted while hopefully I can still remember what all I did. Today was a day with the trainer, although Holly was sick, so I actually worked with 3 different people today. Below is my workout for today:



Today is also 4 months since I had my surgey. I weighed and did measurements this morning, even though its not time for my weekly ones, because it was my 4 months. So far I have lost 79.2 pounds, and a total of 91.75 inches! I am sooo excited. I will post a new picture as soon as I get one taken.

Awesome... completely awesome

Hey guys... I just got home from the gym. I wasn't working with Holly today, so it was just me. I had the most amazing work out ever. I can not believe how incredible it was. I got to the gym as 12:00... I left the gym as 2:45 and I was going hard the whole time I was there. I got to the gym and started on the bike. I did 10 miles, it took me 43.4 minutes to do it. I averaged a level 5.7, but I went anywhere from 4 to 9. My heart rate was 123. After that I went down the the machine area. I stretched out real good and then got started. I did the ab machine first.... and I did... TEN sets of FIFTY reps... uh huh... 500 reps on the thing, at 55 lbs. When I started working out, 2 months ago, I could barely do 3 sets of 25. A month ago Holly increased my reps to 4 sets of 25 and I jokingly said if i keep up this pace in a month, I'll be doing 500 reps. Little did I know... I really would. It was amazing. My abs are burning good, but it feels great. So then I did steps. I did 4 sets of 25 on them. That was the least I did of anything, but they are very challenging for me. After those I went to the bicep curl machine, I did 4 sets of 50 at 20 pounds. So while I was on the bicep machine, I was looking around the room at the other machines. Shortly after I started at the gym, my original trainer left, and I worked with one of the guys that works there one day. I was doing the shoulder press machine, and was really struggling, and he laughed at me because I couldn't do it. I have not been back on that machine since. I couldn't bring myself to do it. Every time I would look at it, I heard him laughing at me. So today, I decided it was time. He had held me back too long already. I did it today. I had at 20 pounds. And I did 2 sets of 50, And 2 sets of 25, and the last 50 I had to do in sets of 10.... but I did the 200 reps that I was doing on all the machines today. I got of that machine and I was crying. I had done it. And it hurt very bad, but I finished. It was a huge accomplishment for me, before if something had bothered me like that, I probably never would have done it again. And I not only overcame the fear of that machine, and the horror of what happened that day 2 months ago. But I moved past the ability to just forget about things that have given me trouble before. After I stopped crying, I finished up on the triceps machine. I did pounds on that one. I did one set of 50, and one set of 150. If I didn't have class tonight, I could have, and would have stayed a lot longer. It was just amazing. I can't believe how far I have come in so short a time period. Someone once told me they expected great things out of me. At the time, I had a hard time imagining I would ever really get to greatness. Now, I fully believe I WILL achieve greatness. Occasionally I do it now. Today was a day for greatness. I feel like I could conquer the world right now. Every time I get like this, the more I want every day to be like this. Life is just so amazing. And every day is a new adventure, because every day I change in some way, and right now there is no limit to what I can do in life. The only thing that can stop me anymore, is me... and if I can keep this attitude, that won't be possible either.

Food today
Scrambled egg and cheese
Half piece of toast with sugar free blackberry jelly
Stuffed Chicken for Lunch and Supper (I didn't have time to cook, I stayed at the gym too long :) )

Tuesday Food and Workout

I talked to Holly my trainer yesterday about my results from the weigh in last week. She couldn't believe it either. She really didn't have any idea why that would have happened, or how it could have happened. She talked to the other people that work there, and none of them could figure it out. So they decided it was either that I was getting sick, like an infection or something, OR that my body has gotten used to the workout I'm doing, and that it is no longer enough. She suggested I come to the gym everyday, I would only work out with her 3 days a week still, but the other days I can work out on my own. Yesterday's workout was a good workout physically, but I really had a hard time with it mentally, I just wasn't where I needed to be. Usually I finish a workout feeling very fired up and energized and ready to take on the world, yesterday none of that was there. My attitude just wasn't where it needed to be. But here is my workout from yesterday.

Treadmill - 30 minutes, avg 3.2 MPH, 1.5 miles, HR 115
Bike - 30 minutes, Levels 3-9, I did it manually this time instead of the interval mode, 7 miles, HR 125.
Ab Machine - 4 Sets of 40 at 55 pounds
Bicep Curls - 4 Sets of 40 at 20 pounds
Thigh Machine - 4 Sets of 40 at 30 pounds
Triceps Machine - 4 Sets of 40 at 30 pounds
Treadmill - cool down - 10 minutes, 2.5 MPH

Food from yesterday
Boiled Egg
Peanut Butter Toast
Cheese Stuffed Chicken
Protein Bar

I still didn't eat enough yesterday. I have GOT to do better. I seem to either want to eat to much, or not eat enough. I did get my protein and water in yesterday, and took my vitamins and calcium.

See you later today with my workout and food for today.