Post by Girlrocker on Jun 14, 2012 9:57:48 GMT -5
ADIOS dreaded bermuda triangle weight zone, you damned 195-205!!!
My official anniversary is tomorrow, June 15, but I'll be driving to Vegas to visit my sister for a girl talk/pool/we're gonna party on and see Rock of Ages kind of a weekend
Ok, normally I don't lead off with the number, because if there's anything I've learned over the years, we are so much more than a number on a scale, and it's exactly why staying tuned to our NSVs is so key to our life-long success, reprogramming our heads, handing ourselves our own chicken soup for the soul.
But that bermuda triangle weight range for me is painful, as in, excruciating. It's where I was stuck - no matter what I did - including a year of bootcamp. And the mostly quiet fear I lived in after my revision - as many of us do, being used to failure and disappointment - that I wouldn't budge.
And then, in the last few weeks, BAM. I read voraciously here all the time, have incorporated many suggestions, from long-term successful DSers, to people with my similar stats, age, metabolic issues. For a good while I was on an amped up protein intake - double shakes (60g) red meat 1-2x daily, liverwurst, bacon, etc. - to see how I did absorbing protein/iron, rectifying anemia. The good news is, my revision WORKS, not only for weight loss, but its reversing my absorption RNY issues.
Now I'm getting weekly iron infusions to bring up my ferratin, everything else is up and back to normal. JOY.
This means I've been sooooooo tired, also went back to work to toxic boss. Called Dr. K to see what I could change, because I was frustrated being stuck at 192-196 for 8 weeks. He told me to now lighten up on my protein intake again, not force it. So that's what I did and the earth, literally moved!
I miss working out, but will go back to that soon, break myself in again.
- My skinny jeans are no longer skinny, they are falling of me like a sack
- I feel lighter, physically and spiritually, I smile...a LOT.
- The concept I might actually see the 160s is tangible, I can actually touch it. Never been at goal weight ever in my life.
- I'm 51 and this is hard work, and sometimes its exhausting, but I know what the prize is, so I suck it up. Being open minded, willing to embrace new, different ways to eat has helped me let go of the past.
- I'm besotted with the cream cheese pancake recipe - sweet style, savory - yes, I make them savory with no sweetener, sauteed scallion, pancake size big enough to fit into a toaster, make batches, refrigerate, toast, eat with my over medium eggs, OMG. Add sf chocolate to the batter for brownie like goodness. OMG.
Two other update links here, if you have time to read a novel online:
5 Months Out Update
weightlosssurgery.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=3938
3 mos out Update
weightlosssurgery.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=3251
And last, pictures do speak a thousand words. This isn't the most special, the best ever...it's a simple quick shot a gal pal took when we went to the cajun blues festival, it is a full body shot which I now allow and I can literally see the happiness and peace I feel.
For newbies, pre-ops, fellow revisionistas, and those of us tackling this in our 40s and 50s, we can do it. Stay open, be ready to do Plans A, B, C...and D, F, G, H, therapy, whatever needed. Yes, the surgery can feel like the center of the universe, but when you consider the time/energy consumed, lost as morbidly obese people, not such a bad center, is it?
Thanks to all who have supported my journey along the way, whom I've met, have become friends, who I respect, I'm grateful beyond the gazillion words I always seem capable of
My official anniversary is tomorrow, June 15, but I'll be driving to Vegas to visit my sister for a girl talk/pool/we're gonna party on and see Rock of Ages kind of a weekend
Ok, normally I don't lead off with the number, because if there's anything I've learned over the years, we are so much more than a number on a scale, and it's exactly why staying tuned to our NSVs is so key to our life-long success, reprogramming our heads, handing ourselves our own chicken soup for the soul.
But that bermuda triangle weight range for me is painful, as in, excruciating. It's where I was stuck - no matter what I did - including a year of bootcamp. And the mostly quiet fear I lived in after my revision - as many of us do, being used to failure and disappointment - that I wouldn't budge.
And then, in the last few weeks, BAM. I read voraciously here all the time, have incorporated many suggestions, from long-term successful DSers, to people with my similar stats, age, metabolic issues. For a good while I was on an amped up protein intake - double shakes (60g) red meat 1-2x daily, liverwurst, bacon, etc. - to see how I did absorbing protein/iron, rectifying anemia. The good news is, my revision WORKS, not only for weight loss, but its reversing my absorption RNY issues.
Now I'm getting weekly iron infusions to bring up my ferratin, everything else is up and back to normal. JOY.
This means I've been sooooooo tired, also went back to work to toxic boss. Called Dr. K to see what I could change, because I was frustrated being stuck at 192-196 for 8 weeks. He told me to now lighten up on my protein intake again, not force it. So that's what I did and the earth, literally moved!
I miss working out, but will go back to that soon, break myself in again.
- My skinny jeans are no longer skinny, they are falling of me like a sack
- I feel lighter, physically and spiritually, I smile...a LOT.
- The concept I might actually see the 160s is tangible, I can actually touch it. Never been at goal weight ever in my life.
- I'm 51 and this is hard work, and sometimes its exhausting, but I know what the prize is, so I suck it up. Being open minded, willing to embrace new, different ways to eat has helped me let go of the past.
- I'm besotted with the cream cheese pancake recipe - sweet style, savory - yes, I make them savory with no sweetener, sauteed scallion, pancake size big enough to fit into a toaster, make batches, refrigerate, toast, eat with my over medium eggs, OMG. Add sf chocolate to the batter for brownie like goodness. OMG.
Two other update links here, if you have time to read a novel online:
5 Months Out Update
weightlosssurgery.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=3938
3 mos out Update
weightlosssurgery.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=3251
And last, pictures do speak a thousand words. This isn't the most special, the best ever...it's a simple quick shot a gal pal took when we went to the cajun blues festival, it is a full body shot which I now allow
and I can literally see the happiness and peace I feel. For newbies, pre-ops, fellow revisionistas, and those of us tackling this in our 40s and 50s, we can do it. Stay open, be ready to do Plans A, B, C...and D, F, G, H, therapy, whatever needed. Yes, the surgery can feel like the center of the universe, but when you consider the time/energy consumed, lost as morbidly obese people, not such a bad center, is it?
Thanks to all who have supported my journey along the way, whom I've met, have become friends, who I respect, I'm grateful beyond the gazillion words I always seem capable of
