I am going through some pretty serious, heavy personal stuff right now that's causing me a great deal of stress. Obviously like most of us I want to and tend to over eat , or some times go the other way and dont eat at all.
Right now I am on the track of eating too much , too late at night. I am stressed during the day so I dont eat, cant sleep at night so I eat to keep my mind off things.
My problem is if I get a fill to control to eating , I might get too tight. My band tenses up when I get stressed. Im going to talk to my doc about this . But I am not really sure what to do .
I feel I need the fill to control the over eating at night. With what is going on I could EASILY put on the pounds VERY quickly !
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Yeah RIGHT !
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Why is weight loss w/ out surgery so " inspirational" ?

I was watching one of the morning show's today and they had a lady on that lost over 500 lbs. Inspirational how ever she did it . But the intro to her story was this " Next we have so and so who lost over 500 lbs WITH OUT Any surgery she did it the "Natural " Way , so inspirational " !
I have seen this before on other shows. Why is it that those of us who have had surgery are discounted , made out that we took the "easy" way out because we had surgery ?
So is my 125 pound weight loss any less " inspirational " than someone who did it w/ diet and exercise ? It just really ticks me off that the media portrays it that way . Its no wonder people treat WLS patients as taking the "Easy Way " out .
For years I have always thought WLS should NOT have to be a last resort. Why should you have to wait until you have tried everything under the sun, gained and lost , gained and lost ( Which BTW is harder on your body and worse for your body that just being fat ) to do something about it ?
Diets done work , they have proven that . So why does Weight Loss Surgery have to be last ? Why do people have to be so damn desperate , be on the verge of death , on the verge of getting diseases , deadly diseases to do something about it ?
Someone I know told me last week her daughter was considering the lap band. She is in her early 30's and over 200 pounds. Another Weight loss surgery patient told her " If i were you I would wait until your OLDER to do it " WTF are you talking about ? WAIT , Why ? so you get fatter, you cant do more things w/ your kids , you are more miserable for a longer period of times and you have a better chance of getting a disease like diabetes, high blood pressure etc ? I told her that was the dumbest shit I have ever heard !
So for everyone who thinks I took the easy way out i have this to say ! If going under the knife for over an hour , recovering from surgery , not being able to eat solid foods for 6 weeks, having to totally change not only what I eat but HOW I eat is the "easy" way out well then I guess that's what I did. If having surgery BEFORE I had a stroke, before I got a life changing disease, before I could not longer get my ass up to play with my children , go to their graduation , go to their football games and most of all be around to see them grow up is the easy way out . Ok I took the easy way out . Just because you THINK I or anyone else did not work as hard to lose my weight does not mean we did not ! So If that's easy , then I did it the easy way !!!!
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
They say it takes 2 weeks .....
Of working out everyday to make it a habit . So Im on day 2 !Day 1. 30 minutes of walking/running on the treadmill and about 10 minutes of weights
Day 2. 20 minutes of walking/running on treadmill and 10 on the elliptical and only a few minutes of weights . I did not have much time today , but i knew if i did not go even for a little bit i wouldn't go at all.
My goal is to go for an hour by the end of the week.
Something kind of negative triggered this "working out " thing w/ me .
Well a few things . The first is I cant afford to go get a fill for another few weeks. So I figured If I start working out ( I know something i should have started 2 years ago ) I can at least MAYBE head off any more weight gain .
Second. My best friend of many years was telling me about another friend of her's she ran into that had lap band surgery and she was going on and on about how great she looked and how " she had no hanging skin , and looked so great cause SHE worked out from day one ." she then said " Well she hasnt had kids or anything yet but still she looks great !
NOW mind you she tells me or use to how great I look . But it kind of hit a nerve w/ me , like it was a dig at me that I dont work out .
Maybe its just my guilt at knowing I need to work out . SO that's why I started it .
I still need my fill badly . I cant hardly control my hunger at night . I could go work out all day and come home at night and eat 4 dinners . So I need the control. So hopefully i can get a fill soon !
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