September Sleevesters

[MacMadame 81]

Anyone else get their sleeve in Sept. '08?

[Crystal 0]

Here I am ready to join you!!

[MacMadame 81]

Yeah!

So... at this far out, how much do you eat?

[Crystal 0]

Hey there MacMadame...I've been meaning to get back with you about the amounts and what I am eatting this far out. This weekend has proven to be crazy busy, leaving me just enough time online to check e-mail and that's about it! My son Graduated PRE-K Saturday!! Then we followed that with an excuse to have a party and friends at the pool!! It was great fun, but I do plan on getting back with you later today. I will talk later.

Crystal

[MacMadame 81]

Hey, my son graduated from HS on Sat!

I am thinking about stopping losing weight and maintaining. But then I freak out when the scale goes up a pound -- even though in maintenance your weight is going to fluctuate. I've also been super-hungry lately. So my eating is very much in flux as I try to figure out what works for me.

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

Hey, my son graduated from HS on Sat!

I am thinking about stopping losing weight and maintaining. But then I freak out when the scale goes up a pound -- even though in maintenance your weight is going to fluctuate. I've also been super-hungry lately. So my eating is very much in flux as I try to figure out what works for me.

I went through that too at goal. I finally had to give myself a 5# "give or take" and then I was able to relax. But think about it, unlike a year ago you can put weight on or take it off, it is your choice this time.

[MacMadame 81]

I think it's because deep down I want to lose a few more pounds. But I don't want to continue to eat 1200-1400 calories a day, either.

[Crystal 0]

Ok...at 9 months post op...my eatting habbits are most likely not what they should be. Usually in the morning I enjoy 3/4 of a packet of oatmeal flavored with applesauce and splenda. Followed by a cup of coffee *YUMMY*. Then between Breakfast and lunch, I usually fill in a snack with 4 mini beef sticks and a stick of pepper Jack cheese. lunch is usually a very tiny serving of leftovers from the night before. Between lunch and supper is a snack usually consisting of fresh fruits or more beef sticks with pepper jack cheese (my favorite snack). I really do need to start tracking my eatting. I tend to feel that I do eat way too many carbs and not nearly enough protien. For supper a regular meal I will prepare is usually a beef steak and gravy with rice (I usually subsitute my rice with slightly steamed cabbage), some frozen veggies sauteed, following supper I usually enjoy ending my day with a cup of yogurt. You seem very in order and organized...what kind of eatting habits do you have this far out? I do exercise on a regular basis...I attend personal training 2x's a week for muscle toning, and I do cardio the rest of the week...I just bought a new cardio program for the Wii FIT...It's a killer!!!

[MacMadame 81]

I track all my food on MyFitnessPal.com. I still mostly only eat 3-4 oz. at a time but lately I've been able to eat more at lunch. Unlike most people, I start out the day wide-open and get tighter as the day progresses.

My schedule has recently changed and I haven't worked out a new routine. But meals such as lunch or dinner tend to be meat and veggies. I sometimes have a few bites of potato. Once in a while I'll do Soup or a salad... I put a lot of cottage cheese and egg on the salad if it's from a salad bar and I get salad with grilled chicken if I'm at a restaurant.

Snacks tend to be yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese sticks, nuts or trail mix, Protein hot chocolate or a Protein Bar. Sometimes I do fruit or beef Jerky. Breakfast is almost always a Protein shake. Sometimes I put fruit in it and sometimes I do not.

When I work out, I do trail mix, gels, sports drinks (I mix in a compatible Protein Drink to up the protein), Protein Bars and bananas. I'm still experimenting with that as well.

At this point, I still don't really eat bread or Pasta. I do sometimes have pizza and will eat the crust. But I've never been a big bread person and Pasta now sits too heavy in my sleeve.

I exercise 7-8x a week on 5 different days but I'm trying to get up to 9-10x a week. I'm training for a Half-Ironman and I need to do more than I've been doing. I just started working out with a personal trainer and I run 3-4 times a week, bike 2-3 and swim 1 time. I need to get another swim and another strength session in there!

[Crystal 0]

You seem soo organized...I dont know that I could ever be that together!! Your exercise regiment is amazing!! Mine seems pathetic compared to yours, but it is a whole lot more than before surgery (aka. None)...I have a personal trainer 2x's a week, and do a strenous (so I think) cardo workout on the Wii Fit.

[MacMadame 81]

It's all relative. I don't do nearly as much as a lot of other triathletes training for my distances. Which worries me a bit but there are only so many hours in a day!