You're about to see something real ugly, this is a fair warning! Also to any of my workout guru friends, please forgive my workout ignorance ... I did what worked! I have mentioned that the last week or so I have been a little derailed. I have not followed my diet to a T, I have been able to eat more and have moved very little. For the last 3 days I have conscientiously tried to remedy this and have done better with a few cheats along the way however I still felt ooky.... Behold though... today ... Today... miraculously I woke up and drank 8 oz's of water then I had a sliver of baked ham (<30 calories) & got a few things done around the house! Then somewhere out of the blue I filled up a Rt. 44 cup with ice water and started working out. I decided that I would work out the entire time the Chew was on TV. During the show I walked laps around the living room and during commercials I stopped took a drink and did strength training or toe touches or ab. twists or squats. In the end I had walked over 3000 steps for a total of 1.5 miles, did 12 squats, 10 minutes of twisting and toe touching, and 15 minutes worth of lifting. I used candles as weights when I walked and a green bar stool as a kind of barbell. In that time I got sweaty... I felt the burn ... and I consumed 44 oz's of H2O!!! Since working out, I have had a P3 turkey and chedder & cottage cheese for lunch and a handle full of granola for a snack. Plus about 35 oz's of water! I really hope this desire to "work it" stays with me. I think it is exactly what I need!
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Everyday is a new page written in this journey 105 "pages" in and I am feeling great! Here's our weekend recap and a little NSV insight. NSV 1, 2, 3! - Shopping for MYSELF at Maurices ... Yes they sell plus sizes but my body shape before never would fit the sizes ... Since I am 55+ pounds down and I was out and about all by myself, I thought I'd just see if they'd fit and this weekend they did!!! Moving up the car seat and Still no tummy rubbing against the wheel!!! Look at that gap!!!!!!! Fireworks show at the ball field sitting in a bag chair - I swore them off after the 2nd one broke last summer (real confidence booster)! This year I sat comfortably and didn't worry about crashing to the ground! This weekend I also had the chance to just hang out with a few people I love/admire/enjoy having in my life! --- Fathers Day celebration with the Pop-ster --- End of the season Summer Ball Party ... at least one boy in that crowd <3's TJ ... oh wait he's mine! --- Fathers Day with "grandpa Rust" and special guest Crew, he stole the show! --- This weekend I got a chance to meet - in person - 2 awesome ladies ... they had the sx in Mx about 9 months before Sunny and I and we heavily rely on their experience! I will not post their names or photographs in case they prefer to remain anonymous but, I had a blast just hanging out and chatting at the Mexican restaurant! I'll just post a couple of selfies from that day in my Mexico inspired shirt! This journey has taught me that life and those in it are worth enjoying! That every day changes and that you are only stuck in a rut as long as you allow yourself to stay there!
The most important thing in life though is to be yourself... unless you can be Batman... if you can be Batman be that!!! I have to say this week has kicked my booty! The combination of rainy days and hormones have me sitting on the couch mindlessly eating, and if I do happen to venture out I find a way to fit in fast food or junk. This has to stop! I am not seeing the scale creep up yet but it will soon! Nothing healthy is appealing to me and I am managing to find ways to fatten it up! I will label this week Fatty Fat Fat and never celebrate it again! I have a plan for next week now just to find the inspiration!
...and so it begins! This week I lost somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 lbs... I am a little worried though that much of it was "hair weight"... or weight loss due hairloss! Yes! It's totally a thing! If you can lose baby weight & water weight than you can lose hair weight. ... no I didn't just make that up! OK I did just make that up ... but it sounds legit .... right!?! I was hoping this day would never come... I already have hair thinning/loss due to PCOS. I was praying that it'd skip me but as I took my shower I realized there was more hair falling out today than before .... The plan? Up my protein and biotin intake! I'll spare you all the nasty hair wad pics cause I can't handle those myself! Instead I took some hair selfies... I felt like it should have its moment & be photographed before it starts really thinning & I have to get a new style! Any fellow sleevers having hair trouble? ... and in case you didn't see it, I had an NSV today .... see the pic below... Instagram cut off the reason I am excited ... me in this shirt is a great big huge deal! You who know me know why! This shirt is Michael's ... when I ordered them I had to get a different style because they didn't make my size in these ... I would always joke that it was my fat girl shirt, but it is one of the many reasons that pushed me to have sx.
I have almost always been fat, so I never really grasped just how different my body would be when I started losing weight ... But It changes a lot. Of course, I expected shirts to get looser, pants, too. ~I had hoped that would have been sooner, if truth be told. ~ I even expected my double-chins to shrink and hoped to see a jaw and neckline. I think I will never get over the fact though, that shoes fit differently and my rings spin around my fingers. People told me this would happen, "you lose in the little places 1st." I have never been the big girl with frankfurter fingers, elephant ankles and amazon feet. These areas were freakishly small for my weight. I seriously thought there was no way I had much to lose in those area. I wore a size 7 to 8 in both rings and shoes, pretty normal I'd say. I guess the truth is though, every single inch of my body is shrinking. I am kind of in awe that even the padding on the bottoms of my feet in gone, I "feel" more with my hands and under my feet now, it is interesting. I find myself clenching my fists and rocking on my feet just to feel the difference. Intellectually, I knew the loss would happen all over my body. But I guess as humans, we are so obsessed with the large, visible areas of our body and we tend to forget that the "small" stuff. Ultimately, I guess maybe I was hoping I'd lose 10 pounds in my midsection and not my ring finger ... but whatever it takes to be healthy I suppose! Any other sleevers notice odd/unexpected changes in their bodies? Comment below! |
This weight loss is only from June 2015 (I had lost another 51 pounds prior to this)
Blog MissionIt has taken me a long time to get to this point, but I feel like God opened the right doors at the right time. My vision for this blog is not only to document and share my journey with those who care, but also to encourage those who may be following in my footsteps. First and foremost though, I want to give all the glory to God & to focus on his plan for me throughout the journey. What you talkin' 'bout?VSG = Vertical Gastric Sleeve Categories
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