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I have not journaled my journey to date. I like to live in the present, blah blah blah. Well I am learning as I go why I should be keeping a journal. I am 10 or 11 weeks out, I can't remember for sure. It all seems to blend together. I feel like I have been stalled forever. Well I was checking my dashboard of my Body Media armband tonight, and I see that I last logged my weight on June 5. Since that time I have lost an additional 23 lbs. So I either lost all of that weight in a week, or I have been losing, and I have just not tracked it well enough to see it. I think that I have been slow these past couple of weeks, but still trickling, but I did not see the trickle as I was not logging it. I have been addicted to the scale, everyday, sometimes multiple times a day......
I have not tracked my food, or protein, I just have kind of guessed at what I was getting. Now why is this bad? My loss slowed down, perhaps I was not consuming enough. More than likely this is why. I had a stricture and required an endoscopy in Mid june, and I went for 2 weeks where I could not eat hardly anything and even got to where I could not stomach the protein drinks. So for 12 days, I lived pretty much on water. Once I had the procedure, they also found a couple of ulcers that I got because I did not eat, and my stomach acid was eating me. So after that I was cleared to eat again, and could actually swallow stuff. This all crossed over the last of the puree stage and into real food items. So then I started into trying to find the foods I could eat, and what kicked back. I would take my serving size, sometimes I ate it all, sometimes none of it, sometimes everything in came out again. But I didn't log anything, so how much was I getting? Hmmmm
I have very few photos of me pre op. I hated to see what I had become. Now it would be interesting to see the changes in myself. I am far from finished, just barely halfway, a few people mention it, but not many. I think the guys at work are afraid to say anything. They have not figured me out yet, so they don't get to personal. lol I am a very private person, so I don't socialize through work a whole lot.
So starting on Monday I will starting logging nutrient intake. Setting short term goals for each week. and logging my weekly weight, no more daily weigh ins.
I have a calorie counter app on my phone. I can scan most items in, and for my home cooked, I can enter the info once and it is auto saved for future. It is called Calorie Counter. I know there are several apps available, this is just the one I ended up with. Free of course.
I also downloaded the Body Media app, so that I am able to see my daily totals from that, should I remember to plug in and down load. I may upgrade my armband to the blue tooth model so that I will download to the phone automatically.
I will step the excercise this week. It is a mild summer, and I love riding my bike. I have various other goals not weight related, but life related and will benefit my general well being that I will journal and work on.
So if you are not journaling in some way, consider it.
Well that is my ramble for 330 am Sunday. Have a good day all that will be awake to see it. :)
I have not tracked my food, or protein, I just have kind of guessed at what I was getting. Now why is this bad? My loss slowed down, perhaps I was not consuming enough. More than likely this is why. I had a stricture and required an endoscopy in Mid june, and I went for 2 weeks where I could not eat hardly anything and even got to where I could not stomach the protein drinks. So for 12 days, I lived pretty much on water. Once I had the procedure, they also found a couple of ulcers that I got because I did not eat, and my stomach acid was eating me. So after that I was cleared to eat again, and could actually swallow stuff. This all crossed over the last of the puree stage and into real food items. So then I started into trying to find the foods I could eat, and what kicked back. I would take my serving size, sometimes I ate it all, sometimes none of it, sometimes everything in came out again. But I didn't log anything, so how much was I getting? Hmmmm
I have very few photos of me pre op. I hated to see what I had become. Now it would be interesting to see the changes in myself. I am far from finished, just barely halfway, a few people mention it, but not many. I think the guys at work are afraid to say anything. They have not figured me out yet, so they don't get to personal. lol I am a very private person, so I don't socialize through work a whole lot.
So starting on Monday I will starting logging nutrient intake. Setting short term goals for each week. and logging my weekly weight, no more daily weigh ins.
I have a calorie counter app on my phone. I can scan most items in, and for my home cooked, I can enter the info once and it is auto saved for future. It is called Calorie Counter. I know there are several apps available, this is just the one I ended up with. Free of course.
I also downloaded the Body Media app, so that I am able to see my daily totals from that, should I remember to plug in and down load. I may upgrade my armband to the blue tooth model so that I will download to the phone automatically.
I will step the excercise this week. It is a mild summer, and I love riding my bike. I have various other goals not weight related, but life related and will benefit my general well being that I will journal and work on.
So if you are not journaling in some way, consider it.
Well that is my ramble for 330 am Sunday. Have a good day all that will be awake to see it. :)
I started tracking my foods about 4 years ago. I was hard to remember and seemed like such a hassle at first. Initially, I just counted calories and did it in a notebook. And of course started weighing and measuring everything too.
In time i have swapped over to on line tracking. I did weight watchers tracker on line for about a year and a half, since have swapped to one of the many free ones. I tend to get bored, so I've bounced around a bit.
fatsecret.com
loseit.com
myfitnesspal.com
They are all great trackers, but I wish they would take the things I like from all of them and make one real good one! LOL!
There have been short periods of time over the last 4 years that I didn't track for some reason, but not for long... then I was back at it!
It was hard at first to remember or want to hassle with it, but now it is such a habit that when I do not track something right away it just feels like something is missing.
It keeps me honest. In weight watchers lots of people say "track every BLT" (meaning bite, lick, taste) and I think this is a good habit to have as sometimes its those BLT's that add up to a pound and we think why did we gain or not lose?
Lately I have gotten lax about tracking my exercise. I do exercise regularly, I just don't track it all the time... but I need to get better at that so after surgery I will have a better track record, I think this is so helpful as it allows you to look back and see what your week or month was like in relation to any weight loss or gain.
I also think journaling for our head stuff is an awesome tool as well. JJ posted on that recently. I keep a journal here on DS, but its a bunch of everything.... However, I keep a personal journal in my notebook (one of those fancy journal books) of my 'head' stuff and my therapists stuff. I believe this will be helpful for many reasons.