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OK... without getting into the crazy of the last five years of my life---
I am 11 years out from WLS. I started around 300 and got down to 156 at my lowest--and am up to 196 now. My resting weight has been about 172 which looked good on me.
I gained weight over the last few years due to stress and not taking care of myself while I had to tend to everyone and everything else. Not good, but there it is.
Time to get back to being healthy!
I have been sick with a headache every day since about mid October. In doing lots of research I figured out that I was apparently iodine deficient. This could be in part due to my Adrenals being burnt out from the stress of the last 5 years. (MIL illness & death & estate, husband 2 illnesses, pregnancy... new baby, teen ager being a dumbarse...losing 2 of my dogs...house renovations...my mother falling ill and major surgery and subsequent care-taking for her then long term care for her...dealing with her house and finances... just the few things off the top of my head). All these things and more, plus my not taking care of _me_ while going through all of this--my nutrition and adrenals are CAPUT. B12 is off, Vitamin D is off, my protein intake was down and I was eating Too. Many. Carbs.
Oh I eat good carbs..we pretty much eat only all organic. But by eating the wrong things, combined with my body chemistry being all shot to hell, my weight shot up and here I am with 40+ lbs I need to shed. I need to have a hernia repair surgery, and also get my muscles fixed in my abs as they are separated. While there I am going to get this skin removed that no amount of exercise or time will shrink.I was heavy for too long, and I am just _too_ white---not enough melanin in this girl's skin to encourage the skin to shrink back.
Now because of gaining weight, my clothes are not fitting well! I will be hanged if I am buying a new bloody ward robe! lol
Right now I haven't been feeling well for weeks. I think the headacehs are conquered (HALLELUJAH!) and the weakness and brain fog and overall feelings of malaise from my B and D bottoming out are starting to life. I hugely upped my D this past week, am being more consistent with my B12 and other supplements. I found a REALLY good protein shake (Garden of Life) that doesn't make me feel gross after I have it (apparently non organic whey is a no-go for me now). I also like Orgain and Svelte shakes, and have no shakiness or sickness from them. My go-to shake (Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard) I can no longer drink and am passing it over to a friend. I am glad I can bless him with them. :)
Anywho..so my goals: Feel better so I can get to walking. Feel better so I can get to the gym. Feel better so I can do things around the house again and lift the burden from my husband. Feel better so I can take care of my little girl and help my 20 year old. Feel better so I can do things with friends and participate in LIFE. I have pretty much dropped out since September.
Get healthy---Lose weight---Get fit---Get my life back.
And hopefully get surgery this Fall so next year I have a nice flat tummy. I don't' need perfect...I just turned 49 and am lily white. I will still have lots of lose skin. I just want to feel comfortable IN my own skin and this droopy belly that will never go away, that makes all my clothing fit odd, that makes me feel FAT no matter what my weight is... I need it gone. I need my muscles fixed and this hernia amended so I can strengthen my core so my back is strong. If I don't do this now before I am much older, it may never happen.
So...who's with me in reaching a fitness goal?? :)
I am 11 years out from WLS. I started around 300 and got down to 156 at my lowest--and am up to 196 now. My resting weight has been about 172 which looked good on me.
I gained weight over the last few years due to stress and not taking care of myself while I had to tend to everyone and everything else. Not good, but there it is.
Time to get back to being healthy!
I have been sick with a headache every day since about mid October. In doing lots of research I figured out that I was apparently iodine deficient. This could be in part due to my Adrenals being burnt out from the stress of the last 5 years. (MIL illness & death & estate, husband 2 illnesses, pregnancy... new baby, teen ager being a dumbarse...losing 2 of my dogs...house renovations...my mother falling ill and major surgery and subsequent care-taking for her then long term care for her...dealing with her house and finances... just the few things off the top of my head). All these things and more, plus my not taking care of _me_ while going through all of this--my nutrition and adrenals are CAPUT. B12 is off, Vitamin D is off, my protein intake was down and I was eating Too. Many. Carbs.
Oh I eat good carbs..we pretty much eat only all organic. But by eating the wrong things, combined with my body chemistry being all shot to hell, my weight shot up and here I am with 40+ lbs I need to shed. I need to have a hernia repair surgery, and also get my muscles fixed in my abs as they are separated. While there I am going to get this skin removed that no amount of exercise or time will shrink.I was heavy for too long, and I am just _too_ white---not enough melanin in this girl's skin to encourage the skin to shrink back.
Now because of gaining weight, my clothes are not fitting well! I will be hanged if I am buying a new bloody ward robe! lol
Right now I haven't been feeling well for weeks. I think the headacehs are conquered (HALLELUJAH!) and the weakness and brain fog and overall feelings of malaise from my B and D bottoming out are starting to life. I hugely upped my D this past week, am being more consistent with my B12 and other supplements. I found a REALLY good protein shake (Garden of Life) that doesn't make me feel gross after I have it (apparently non organic whey is a no-go for me now). I also like Orgain and Svelte shakes, and have no shakiness or sickness from them. My go-to shake (Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard) I can no longer drink and am passing it over to a friend. I am glad I can bless him with them. :)
Anywho..so my goals: Feel better so I can get to walking. Feel better so I can get to the gym. Feel better so I can do things around the house again and lift the burden from my husband. Feel better so I can take care of my little girl and help my 20 year old. Feel better so I can do things with friends and participate in LIFE. I have pretty much dropped out since September.
Get healthy---Lose weight---Get fit---Get my life back.
And hopefully get surgery this Fall so next year I have a nice flat tummy. I don't' need perfect...I just turned 49 and am lily white. I will still have lots of lose skin. I just want to feel comfortable IN my own skin and this droopy belly that will never go away, that makes all my clothing fit odd, that makes me feel FAT no matter what my weight is... I need it gone. I need my muscles fixed and this hernia amended so I can strengthen my core so my back is strong. If I don't do this now before I am much older, it may never happen.
So...who's with me in reaching a fitness goal?? :)
This month, I'm working on my 25 pound mark with 4 pounds to go. I am 20 pounds away from my long term goal weight , 10 pounds from my short term goal weight. I take it one day at a time, and that seems to be working. :)
Thank you for sharing! It sounds like you have a lot of awesome reasons to stay healthy!
I would _love_ to get to 150 and have it as a holding weight..but I really can't go by the scale. I need to just use that as a guide. I carry a lot of muscle mass. Ideally I would love to be in size 8-10 pants and medium tops (general guide). But the world isn't going to end if I am not. I would just like to feel "normal". Which is just a setting on the dryer, I know. :D
I have never looked like what the scale reads (thankfully!!). Because of the way I carry weight, a fairly small weight loss will show pretty well in the way my clothes fit. As long as I am not losing muscle mass I am happy. Right now my muscles are hurting so badly that I feel like I was in a car accident or took a hard fall. :( I am sure it is the D crash that is the culprit.
I just stood and folded 3 loads of clothes (easy folding items) and I am so exhausted from it that I had to sit down. That is just bloody ridiculous.
Put it this way: In the Fall in two days I moved 5 tons of bags of pellets on my own. I _know_ something is jacked up here. :P
Off to bed now...