Today I went to the gym and weighed in at 336 pounds, definitely a move in the wrong direction. When I’m not posting, it’s a pretty safe bet that I’m off the rails. I did 30 minutes on the treadmill on a weight loss program setting, burning 310 kilocalories. My knee has been fully recovered for about a month.
I’ve not abandoned the blog. I’ve been extended away and will be back to blogging again in a day or two.
It’s quite easy to change your weight fast.
Your clothes will tighten up and you’ll be having recurring chest pain again in no time!
I’m back home and at the office. I was bad while I was traveling. Very bad. Afraid-of-the-scale-bad.
Be that as it may, I’m back, so it’s gym time in a day or so when my back recovers.
Lunch
1 liter of Diet Coke Zero
Reeses’s ‘fluffy’ 3-musketeers-type bar
Dinner
Large can of Wolf Chili, no beans
1/2 pound of pepperjack cheese
1 liter of Diet Coke Zero
3oz vegetable chips w/ 1/2 container of chunky salsa
Big Mac
parafait with granola
parafait with granola
pint of Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream
20oz watermelon jolly rancher soda
20oz Dr. Pepper
1 Liter Diet Coke
Notes:
Binge city.
Early AM
1 troy oz of pepperjack cheese
tin of Colossal Oysters
2 cups of rice mix
Lunch
24 oz water
Strawberries and Cream SlimFast Optima
24 oz water
Afternoon Snack
24 oz water
Stein of Diet Coke
24 oz water
Dinner at the Pioneer Pub w/Colleagues
4 pints of Guinness
Blackened chicken salad with vinegar & oil (ate the chicken, about half a small breast’s worth)
Evening Snack
1 liter Diet Coke
2 saltine crackers with 1tbsp natural peanut butter each
Notes
Most of my caloric intake is in the very early morning - staying up late when I should be sleeping - where I’m hungry as hell. I need to change this behavior.
While I realize I’ve drank quite a lot this weekend, that’s not par for the course. Tonight I enjoyed blowing off steam with colleagues before a stressful week of, well, stuff. No more empty alcohol calories for a few months.
Whenever I’m under stress, I binge on sugar, eat crap, and crave nicotine. I should be exercising instead. I quit smoking in January 2008, not for any New Year’s Resolution, but because I was waylaid by a flu virus and bronchitis. Ugh.
In very short order, my weight shot up from the 310s to 332.25. My low since being banded was 296. At my peak weight, I was over 500 pounds. Anyway, I stopped exercising. While it’s true that I have a bad back, that doesn’t keep me from using a stationary cycle or walking around the track. I sold my BowFlex, which I had bought just before I injured my back a tad over two years ago.
It’s Spring, I’m well, the weather is either rainy or good, and the gym awaits. Yes, I’ve been extraordinarily busy at work, but that too shall pass. The only thing I haven’t been short on is excuses.
Losing weight is not rocket science, it’s medical science. While it’s more complicated with the morbidly obese than Joe Average, the principles are relatively simple:
It’s logically very simple, but overeating is emotional. Stress drives me to sugar. Sugar makes me feel better psychologically and for a short while physically. But it’s bad for me. Exercise is a better stress reliever, provided I don’t go overboard and frak up my back.
One down side to the lap band is that you don’t get the sugar aversion experienced by many (if not most) Gastric Bypass patients. In fact, my sweet tooth got worse. But folks with the gastric bypass typically have an 18 month window before the body adapts to malabsorption. Malabsorption doesn’t go away entirely, but it’s effacy is reduced over time.
Anyway, these are just a few thoughts. Feel free to comment.