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Trip To Red Lobster

Well I'm 5 weeks out, recently started soft diet. Glad to be able to eat "solid" foods and not pureed everything. Of course my first outing is to Red Lobster with out of town family. It was a victory for me. After waiting an hour I was actually hungry,, which is not usually the case. I shared a bowl of clam chowder with my hubby. No drinking during meal is still hard but getting used to it. Its funny telling the waiter.. no thanks nothing to drink for me.. not even water. For diner, I thought to eat from hubby's plate (he's good and lets me do that), but I really wanted grilled shrimp, so I ordered the grilled shrimp and brocolli. Cut up each shrimp into little small pieces and enjoyed!!.. Then becuase we waited so long for a table the manager gave us deserrts on the house. Most deserts in RedLobster is a la mode, so I had a few spoonfuls of icecream and I was totally satisfied and had shrimp for lunch the next few days. I had a great time with family, friends and my sleeve!!
BrownDoesAll

BrownDoesAll

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Still going

I have been following the 5:2 plan for eating, and recently shed 2 pounds. Strange experience.. I had a great fast day on Friday.. Fast days are not really hard for me, when I'm at work. I stay so busy time goes by and cups of green tea or crystal light get me through until the one meal for diner. If I get hungry before that I eat a salad with a bit of protein. The strange part was the next day. Saturday is typically a shopping day for my daughter and I. We simply love the malls and shopping.. or just looking for things we'd like to buy. Recent trips have been to find a dress for a 50th wedding anniversary I am hosting for my favorite Aunt and Uncle. Normally I put on my sneakers (gym shoes) and can walk and walk and walk. I wear a pedometer daily my normal step count is about 5000 steps a day (I am an IT manager and typically sit at my desk most days) but on Saturdays I typically average 9000 steps easy with no problem. However this Saturday I was in pain, total agony after 5,000 steps. My knees were killing me!! I could not explain the reason for the pain. I had not felt like that since before the surgery in 2011 when I weighed 330 pounds. I've not had knee pain for over two years I'm not sure what caused that.. I can only attribute it to water retention in my knees. Still I will forge on. More determined than ever to get under 200 pounds. Making my goals 10 pounds at a time. .
BrownDoesAll

BrownDoesAll

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Inches Melting Away

I was sleeved Nov 8th 2011. So I'm about 2 months out. Since surgery I've lost 23 pounds. I feel that is slow loss, my Doc says its right on track. They expect me to lose 5 - 10 pounds a month. So I'm not discouraged, I'm in it for the long haul. Learning how to eat and lose as a lifestyle. I'll admitt I HATE excersise and hope I can lose weight without adding excersise.   What I am excited about is the loss of inches. In those two months I'm down two pant sizes and that really feels good. I'm getting comments about my weight loss,which at times is a trigger to eat more, but i'm learning.   I'll take the slow weight loss and the fast inches lost. Feeling good about the sleeve. I can eat what I want, or should I say I can eat what it wants. Sometimes I feel deprived from carbs, but I'm determined. Eating the protein first, then the veggies, theres typically no room for carbs so I'm good.
BrownDoesAll

BrownDoesAll

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Sabatoge Or Love

Its been 3 months and 33 pounds down since by sleeve. I feel its going slow. but I am in the mind of slow and steady wins the race. As long as the number and my size continues to go down I am happy. However, I wonder if my family is as supportive as they say they are. Yesterday my hubby, a bit overweight himself, proudly bought in a platter full of chocolate and vanila cupcakes. These cupcakes were given to him by a mom he teaches karate to. This lady often gives my hubby backed goods, which in itself is another topic.   When presented with this plate full of goodies, I asked, "Dear why would you not leave those in your dojang (karate school), there is a fridge there and you could share those with your students and other moms", to this he replied, "I thought you'd like some". Then began the discussion of my journey to a smaller, healthier, happier me, which did not include a plate full of cupcakes.   No sooner did I finish that discussion with hubby and he agreed to leave these goodies from where they came. My son came home and happily presented me with a large chocolate chip cookie from the place he works. I LOVE LOVE those cookies and had not had one in a very very long time. So as I was eating that delicious cookie (I had lost all will power at that time), I had to explain to my son, Ilove you for thinking of me, you know how much I LOVE LOVE these cookies, but please don't bring anymore home. I have no will power against these and really want to complete my weight loss journey.   Now. I ask you is this sabatog? Does my hubby and son (the only other two living in the house at this time), want me to go back to the old ways. Maybe they were happier when I was brining in these type of goodies. I must admit the pantry is no longer stocked with chips, cookies, brownies etc. Now they find more fruits and veggies and anything no carb I can find to snack on. Maybe they really want things back the way they were?
BrownDoesAll

BrownDoesAll

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Back on the move

Sleeved in Nov 2011 started at 330 now almost 2 years after I'm about 255. About a year back I sort of went into maint mode. Down to a comfy size 18 I was very content. I did want to go down one more pant size so I attempted to "diet" to lose more weight. I excersied, joined a gym ( URGH!! ) I so hate gyms, I so hate excersise. I bought the Wi Fitness Zumba Kit,, Did enjoy that for quite a while. My daughter and I really got into the dances. But as with most things time gets in the way. Got home too late from work to get in a good zumba session before having to cook, eat diner and get the grandson ready for bed. Went back to the NUT she suggested a 3::2 way of eating.. Stick to 3 low carb high protein meals a day and only 2 snacks. Did that.. and careful tracking of everything I ate. Found that I had been snacking more than I realized. Eating the 3:2 way helped me stop the food grazing and gain some control. With that I did lose another 5 pounds,, which got me to 255.. Where I've been stuck again for many many months. I"ve recently stumbled on Intermittent Fasting (IF). yes another FAD.. but appears to be working. You basically eat normally ( what ever your normal is ) for 5 days and eat 25% less calories for 2 days called fasting days. I call them CONTROL days. Having done that for about 4 weeks the scale is moving in the right direction again. During the normal 5 days, I eat what I consider sleeve normal, low carb high protein with added veggies. Portion sized are larger than in the very beginning of the sleeve, but still smaller than most. I do track what I eat using my Fat Secret phone app and I can see I average between 1200 - 1700 calories a day for normal eating days. I've cut back on the snacks, but will admit to having the occasional bad snack a couple of times a week. Then on what I call CONTROL days ( Monday and Thursday) I don't eat until evening diner. Then its my normal chicken, fish, pork, minimal days beef, with hearty veggie, on occasion small amount of rice, or pasta, totals to about 300 cal meal. Followed by a power crunch bar (200 cals). The rest of the day I drink, typically hot green tea. there is science behind the IF way of eating.. Might very well be another FAD, but the theory is two fold. One of course obvious.. eating less calories 2 days a week, then you'll average out eating less calories for the week, resulting in weight loss. The other, not so obvious.. is making the body rest from eating for a length of time caused the body to " eat its on fat" for energy. Therefore I stop eating from 7pm on Sunday night and don't eat again until Monday night around 7pm, giving my body 24 hours of rest..hence the term Intermitting Fasting. MOnday would be considered my FAST day. I call it my CONTROL day. because that's the day I start off with a cup of protein hot chocolate, then control my urge to eat until my diner meal. If the urge to eat ( typically not hungry ) gets the best of me I eat a small salad. These days have helped me gain control over my grazing and junk food eating binges. So.. I'll be bloging on my goal to go down at least one more pant size. I'm on my way!!
BrownDoesAll

BrownDoesAll

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Still Going

My Thursday fast day was fine. Fast days are still easy. Start the day with hot chocolate protein drink, then green tea when I feel hungry. then around noon or 1PM I have a no cal salad.. just the greens and a small amount of dressing. That fills me up and I'm good to go until diner. I'm pretty busy at work so I typically don't think about food. Then when I get home I'm good with diner, I cook for the family. Last night was delicious salmon, easy to cook, no fuss.. along with noodles for the hubby and green beans . Easy . I had my fill of salmon. Watched Scandal..one of my favorite TV shows!!.. drank some Diet Green tea.. Should have been the end of it.. BUT NO WAY!!.. for some reason the brain said.. gotta have something else.. What else can you eat.?? What else can you eat?? Good planning for me.. I don't keep a lot of junk foods in the house. What little does come in.. my family has learned to hide from me.. which is great. outta sight , outta mind. But those darn Power Crunch bars are always there.. The are protein 12g, 10 carbs, but 200 calories. Not good to add on my low cal fasting days. But they are CHOCOLATE.. one of my weaknesses. So my brain says.. Okay.. you've been so good, have half and save the rest for later. I do that.. I get the taste in my mouth of the chocolate.. and Its all over.. Half becomes the whole thing. (brain.. you've been good.. this wont be bad). The whole then becomes a small bag of cheese gold fish. Salty always follows sweet. Then sweet must follow salty and a perfectly good day becomes a fail!!.. Then I am frustrated and angry with myself. The good news is.. God gives us a new day.. A day to start over and try to get it right. I am trying.. God knows I'm trying. Just gotta keep working on the evening brain thing. I'm going to try to join the 5:2 group. Those ladies post daily. check in with each other..Maybe that will help me, trying to be accountable to someone. When I get the urge to snack at night, i'll try to post. Just say no Brown!! Just say no!!..
BrownDoesAll

BrownDoesAll

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Slow going

Entering week 5 of the 5:2 plan and my focus to move down. I've started feeling like a failure, having had the surgery almost two years ago and still I weigh 255 pounds. If I had it to do over again I would have kept going once I hit that first 3 month stall. I would not have settled for size 18.. now a comfy size 16 dress. I'm still satisfied with not having gained any weight. But now I am focused to keep going down. 255 pounds is not a healthy weight for my age.. heck for any age . So the focus is back on. Having had the surgery I have better eating habits (except for the night time grazing when I'm not fasting). I still eat smaller portions. I still keep carbs low. It's the head and mind battles. Well facing another day.. its Thursday and I fast today. I'm focused
BrownDoesAll

BrownDoesAll

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