Hey folks, alright so update about my gastric bypass. I’ve hit a wall. BOOM! Plateau. I’m down to 185 now (which is 15 pounds lighter than my goal weight) but have stopped losing weight and have been around this weight for almost a month now. So, here’s my rundown on the internal debate that going on in my head:
1) So what? You’re at 185 pounds dude, you’re healthy, feeling great, and you really don’t need to lose anymore weight! Stop complaining!
2) Well, let’s diagnose the issue, is it working out? I’ve been working out 3 to 4 times a week but maybe I’m not pushing myself hard enough? Not running long enough?
3) My food could be better I suppose….been eating some Mexican food and Pizza at times. But I’m pretty sure my caloric intake isn’t excessive. Might ought to work on tracking that better.
4) I’ve recently gotten a bit of a Starbucks addiction. It started out just once in a while and now it’s like every other day. I’m a fan of the Pumpkin Spice Latte (yum!) and of course I sometimes end up getting a piece of coffee cake or something while I’m there. Well, I did the calorie calculation and a Grande PSL is like 410 calories not including the stupid coffee cake! Yikes, that’s over 1600 calories with the coffee alone! Note: Since finding that out I’m now limiting myself to once per week only. It’s working so far, only being a week in that is.
So I dunno, should I be concerned? I still have fat on my body (recent test showed me at 13.1% body fat) and some of its a little extra skin (thankfully I didn’t get it too badly) but should I even be concerned?
Well, I’m not going to dwell on it too much right now. I’ve got bigger things on the horizon. And I mean that quite literally because tomorrow morning….I’m going skydiving! This has been my goal since having the surgery! I knew I had to be under 200 pounds to jump so that is what I’ve been working towards. Well, the time is now and I’m so excited! My friend Chris and I are getting up early tomorrow morning and heading out to Sky Dive Dallas to do a tandem jump. I’m getting the video and pictures packages so stay tuned for that.
UPDATE: So I took my own advice after being slightly frustrated about my weight loss and looked at my measurements. That’s a more accurate view anyway since you have the whole fat loss along with the displacement of muscle and I’m happy to say there was progress!
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Date
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Weight
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Chest
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Abd
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Hips
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Arm
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| 11/15/07 | 189 | 38.75 | 36.75 | 39 | 13 |
| 9/25/07 | 192 | 39.50 | 37.50 | 39.75 | 13.25 |
| 9/2/07 | 195 | 39.75 | 38 | 40 | 13.50 |
Looks like I’ve lost 3/4″ on my chest, abs, and hips and about a 1/4″ on my arms (my biceps are losing inches for sure but are definitely more defined than before). So I update to say this, don’t lose faith based on weight alone, check your measurements to get a better indication on where you stand. Good luck everyone!
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zulma
June 23rd, 2008
hello,
how are you? i’m so glad i found your blog. i jst had gastric bypass and im bummed at thinking that i will never be able to eat mexican food or pancakes or pasta or ceral (cold) or cake so i have been depressed. can you tell me what you eat and how long after surgery were you able to eat that type off food.
Brad
June 26th, 2008
Hi Zulma, thanks for your comment.
I know how you feel and I’m hear to tell you, it gets better. Everybody gets back to ‘normal’ foods differently…took me about 2-3 months but I can eat pretty much whatever I want now. This time is the best time for you to focus on YOU and your body, don’t sweat the small stuff.
Also, if you’re interested, we have a GB community we’ve started here at http://gastricbypass.ning.com
Norma Henderson
October 31st, 2008
Brad I can't seem to log onto the Gastric Bypass Community site with Ning. Everytime I try it tells me to enter in my “Master Key”… I don't know what the Master Key is… I don't remember ever setting one up. The email address i used when I first joined the community website was normah1217@charter.net I no longer have an internet account with charter so I'm hitting a brick wall. It tells me it is sending a link to that email address which I can't access. My new email address is norma_j_1962@yahoo.com
If you can help me out i'd appreciate it. I was able to log onto the Ning site with no problem until today.
bradgarland
October 31st, 2008
Hi Norma,
I can't do anything about your login, I don't control that part of it. Just make sure to use your old email address to get in and then go into your settings and update it to the new email address afterwards.
FYI, tried to send to your new Yahoo address and got an email failure. Hope you see this message!
Norma Henderson
November 2nd, 2008
Hi Brad…. I tried for two days to make the simple email address change on the Ning site under “settings”…. I’d find where it shows the email address and password….. and “change” next to each… when I’d click on “change” it would then rout me to a page that asked me to enter my “Master Key”… which i don’t know… I’d click on “i don’t know Master Key” and then a msg would post stating they emailed me the Master Key to the charter.net email account. I can’t access charter.net as I no longer use them for my internet connection so it was just a lost cause. Tonight I just rejoined the group as a “new member” and used my current email address norma_j_1962@yahoo.com so when you have the time you can just delete out my original membership. I’ll re-post my pics showing my “before & after” etc….
Sorry for the confusion…. I’m still not sure what happened.
Thanks for the help on this.
Norma
Brad
November 3rd, 2008
Sent you a private message through Ning Norma.