Back to the battle!

For me, life is almost never ending battle to stay healthy. On 8/8/2023,I had a gastric bypass. Let's see if I can lose 100 pounds for a second time in my life. Weight so Far 7/29/2023 346 pounds- Start weight before a week of liquid diet 8/8/2023 335 pounds- date of surgery 8/24/2023 319 pounds- last official weigh in at dr's office.

7/20/2018

So, it's been 5 weeks now and I'm down 35 pounds. So far, so good. Hopefully this next week I'll drop below 300.

Stress

One thing that I'm not sure about is the level of stress that I was under in previous weight losses. So, far I'm doing well in this 3rd go around- I've been pretty much perfect. However, without food around, I feel the stress level increasing substantially. I need to get back on the bike to burn some of this stress!

This time is the charm

Weight loss will always be a lifelong battle for me. I have started the program again and am in the 4th week of product.

So far:

6/21/2018 starting weight 340 ending weight 325
6/28/2018 starting weight 325 ending weight 320
7/5/2018 starting weight 320 ending weight 314.5

So far, so good. This is day 22. Let's see how it goes.

I lost another 5.5 pounds this week. I'm getting closer to fitting into my old suits, but at 250 pounds even, I figure that I'm a good 20 to 25 pounds away. I have three weeks to go before my Sept 1 presurgery appointment. Perhaps I can lost 12 to 15 more pounds by then. Then it's probably a good time waiting until I can once again enter the positive choice program- it could be as long as 6 weeks, depending largely on my recovery from knee surgery. It's tempting to continue the fast until September 8 and lose another 4 to 5 pounds before I go on hiatus. But I'm trying to keep the long term in view, here.

8/12/2016 255.5 to 250.0, 5.5 pounds lost

Thinking about another member of the 100 club

The 100 pound club. When I started on the journey of weight loss a couple years ago, my goal was to be a member of the 100 pound club. I read about men and women who had lost over 100 pounds and was inspired. Two of my friends lost the weight through surgery, but I focused on people who had lost weight through a restricted calorie diet- particularly Optifast, where you subsist on 400 calories/day.

One man whose blog I read with some enthusiasm was "Optifast Loser"- he lost close to 200 pounds, then gained some of the weight back. Then his blog entries stopped. I always wondered what had happened to him. Was he successful, but just tired of writing these blog posts? Did he backslide, like I did, and became too embarrassed to share this with the world?

So, far it looks like I'll be successful in beating down the weight again. I've been pretty perfect with my diet over the first 39 days (with 35 lbs lost as of last Thursday) and I can see reaching 199 again to even out at 215 lbs.

But, I think I myself suffered a bit from the embarrassment factor. I didn't want to admit to everyone that the weight had come back again. Really, when I hit 250, I should have signed up again for the program, but I delayed and it was 40 pounds later that I refocused myself. Better late than never, though?

To make this work long term, I need to refocus myself and keep myself accountable for the months after this current weight loss. This means, constant weighing of myself and being frank about the weight gain when it happens.

Some thoughts...

Thirty Five pounds down! Race to surgery

My new chart

7/1/2016 290 lbs
7/7/16 274.5 15.5 lbs lost
7/14/2016 272 2.5 lbs lost
7/21/16 266, 6 lbs lost
7/28/16 261.5 4.5 lbs lost
8/4/16 255.5 6 lbs lost

I've got until September, when I undergo my surgery. I have to take time off the diet for knee surgery, but am hoping to lose another 16 lbs prior to going under the knife. 239 sounds like a nice number.