Weight: 293.2
Change: -2lbs
Total Weight Lost: -29lbs
Mood: Meh!
Short Term Goal: 13.2lbs to go by 3/17/12
Long Term Goal: 53lbs to go
So I decided to start a blog to catalog the progress of my weight loss. This should be a fun ride. I know this blog will probably never be seen by anyone else, and I am okay with that.
We will start with a little adventure down story lane.
I remember being a pretty active little monster when I was young. I did Karate, soccer, swimming, baseball, basketball, etc. If the YMCA offered it...my mom made sure we were there for our participation ribbons and plastic trophies. When I was about 5 my parents divorced and we spent a year or 2 with my grandmother. An amazing cook, but I always had a sneaking suspicion she was just trying to plump us up to eat us (a la Hansel and Gretel). I don't know if it was just a downward spiral from that point on, but for next 18 years I just ate to eat. When I turned 23 I had enough of my self-indulged apathy.
I worked out, I went on diets, ran with wolves late at night (kidding, but it would make excellent cardio). When all else failed, including back vertebrae and knees, I decided to to make a permanent life change and have gastric bypass surgery. This was an amazing experience and I wish I had done it earlier in my life, but it left me feeling like I had taken the easy way out. The bariatric surgeon instructed me to walk for two hours everyday, or in his words "You will die". Now I am all about extreme diagnosis as much as the next guy, but his words did not encourage me to go outside (The sun is a dangerous foe after all). Needless to say...with no effort and complete laziness I dropped about 200 lbs. To this day it still amazes me that one of the most impressive things that has ever happened in my life was the product of me doing absolutely nothing.
Let's fast forward...this is getting long and you are probably sleeping by now.
Some of the weight came back..and I am still 120 lbs above my "ideal body weight". (Note on "ideal body weight": WHO CAME UP WITH THESE NUMBERS?!? I think some scientist stuck in a lab with some anorexic mice extrapolated their weight:height ratio and applied it to people. Scientists you are on watch. Be warned.).
I met the woman of my dreams, and she has given me the child of my dreams. Epically long story short: I want to be here for a long time for both of them. My dream is to have wheel-chair races with both of them in whatever nursing home my son puts me in.
The race continues...it will be long and slow...but the finish line is the only prize.
I love your post Kevin. Do you have a plan for the weight loss? Excited to keep reading.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I have always felt like my surgery was a free pass, so this time I am really going to work for it. I have been using a website to track calories, stopped eating 4 hours before bedtime, and spend 45 minutes a night on the elliptical. In the last month those tiny things have created a net loss of almost 30 lbs.
ReplyDeleteThanks again for reading!
That's great! 30 lbs is awesome. I kinda feel like I'm cheating with my weight loss. Something I at first considered a crazy, fad diet. Then I seen it work for Eve. So, I've done 3 rounds and am down 45 lbs. I hate exercising and I'm sure that it does other wonderful things for your health. But, I feel that I don't have time and I really don't have the gumption. So, when people have tracked their calories, and gone to great effort to exercise I really admire that. That's the hard work to get even further towards your goal. So, please don't discount it. I have other goals for my health too. I want to get to my goal weight and then quit smoking. That way if I gain some weight back from not smoking, then I can get calm, and do another round of hcg and lose the weight. Then, I'm going to go from there to other stuff, like maybe a gym membership? So, I can tone things back to how they should be? I still have this muffin top that drives me nuts! I want to quit drinking soda, diet or reg. I would like to completely phase out processed foods, and maybe wheat. But, I'm rambling. Good for you Kevin! I'll be your extra cheerleader!
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