Five years after my Roux-en-Y open gastric bypass, I find myself weighing 20 pounds more than I did last year.
While everyone around me still thinks of me as being a "reasonable" weight, I know that this is a dangerous thing for me, and I need to take that 20 pounds off and continue toward my original goal. I seem to have discarded that goal sometime in the past year or so.
All this time later, I realize that I need to get serious.
I am 55 years old and weigh 210. Again.
So, here I am, discussing and thinking about my relationship with food and eating and what I put in my mouth.
While everyone around me still thinks of me as being a "reasonable" weight, I know that this is a dangerous thing for me, and I need to take that 20 pounds off and continue toward my original goal. I seem to have discarded that goal sometime in the past year or so.
All this time later, I realize that I need to get serious.
I am 55 years old and weigh 210. Again.
So, here I am, discussing and thinking about my relationship with food and eating and what I put in my mouth.
Seldom Is Heard A Discouraging Word: But Today I Hear It In My Head
Posted 02-13-2011 at 01:37 PM by MichelleA
I have been stalled between 203 and 206 since I finished my 5-day pouch reset on January 25. I know I shouldn't be discouraged, but it is getting difficult not to.
I understand plateaus, but if it's calories in -> calories out, the scale should be moving!
And going from sedentary lifestyle to exercising three times a day for 30 minutes a day should be doing something to my metabolism!
Have I messed my body up that badly in the past few years? Did the year of Healthy Choice meals and coffee screw it up? Or perhaps the period where I grazed all day long? Or the Weight Watchers points which I knew in the back of my head was not something that was good for me post-op?
I am not so discouraged that I will stop. There is a good feeling to eating the way I know I should have been eating all along, and I suppose as long as I'm not gaining weight, that should be enough.
I continue to follow the rules of the pouch, and find particularly the water rule to be very helpful in keeping me from grazing. I continue to photograph my meals because I enjoy doing that, and I continue to journal my food, which is an activity I have never done, despite admonishments from every doctor I've seen since the age of 8.
Ken and I are working on fixing up our old kitchen-turned-storage-room-turned workout-room and spent a couple of hours dusting, putting up curtains, putting down our new foam mats, and generally going through old stuff and throwing much of it out. We're still only about halfway through, but already it makes a difference!
I can hardly wait to finish so I can take "After" pictures of the room!
Small things amuse small minds, I suppose.
I understand plateaus, but if it's calories in -> calories out, the scale should be moving!
And going from sedentary lifestyle to exercising three times a day for 30 minutes a day should be doing something to my metabolism!
Have I messed my body up that badly in the past few years? Did the year of Healthy Choice meals and coffee screw it up? Or perhaps the period where I grazed all day long? Or the Weight Watchers points which I knew in the back of my head was not something that was good for me post-op?
I am not so discouraged that I will stop. There is a good feeling to eating the way I know I should have been eating all along, and I suppose as long as I'm not gaining weight, that should be enough.
I continue to follow the rules of the pouch, and find particularly the water rule to be very helpful in keeping me from grazing. I continue to photograph my meals because I enjoy doing that, and I continue to journal my food, which is an activity I have never done, despite admonishments from every doctor I've seen since the age of 8.
Ken and I are working on fixing up our old kitchen-turned-storage-room-turned workout-room and spent a couple of hours dusting, putting up curtains, putting down our new foam mats, and generally going through old stuff and throwing much of it out. We're still only about halfway through, but already it makes a difference!
I can hardly wait to finish so I can take "After" pictures of the room!
Small things amuse small minds, I suppose.
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