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Blog 85786

A blog by OldSchool76 in General

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A weight loss surgery blog by OldSchool76 on BariatricPal. 10 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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Back Again!

OK, in February of 2011 I said I would get my ass back in gear. I had lost over 100 Pounds since getting my band and was doing great. Sadly I got comfortable. That means I learned things like: Sauces make things easier to eat Ice cream is easy to eat Alcohol is easy to drink Saving your fat guy clothes as you lose weight makes gaining weight back easier as you don't have to go outside naked So, after 18 months I bounced back up by about 30 pounds. Not horrific by my standards of wei

Epic FAIL!

OK, so I am not someone who blames others for pretty much anything. That may not be fair, or accurate, but my arrogance about my own control over the world in which I live kind of allows me to move forward in life. So imagine my disappointment when, after a mere 7 months on the program I had hit 100 pounds lost only to wake up after the holidays and have gone only backwards!   I was pissed!   The funny part is that I knew who to be pissed at: Me.   I know how to use this tool (the band)  

Meals and Workouts (Draft stuck)

After my last blog post, I was asked to share what I have been eating and doing to get where I am now (which is still roughly 100 lbs away from where I need to be, but still a long way on a pretty rapid track). Now I am no expert but I follow instructions pretty well and consider myself a normal dude with normal needs/desires (around food).   Breakfast My band is tight in the AM. I typically have a protein shake (Costco, Premier Nutrition - 160 cal and 30 g of Protein) If I am hungry late

Meals and Workouts

After my last blog post, I was asked to share what I have been eating and doing to get where I am now (which is still roughly 100 lbs away from where I need to be, but still a long way on a pretty rapid track). Now I am no expert but I follow instructions pretty well and consider myself a normal dude with normal needs/desires (around food).   Breakfast My band is tight in the AM. I typically have a protein shake (Costco, Premier Nutrition - 160 cal and 30 g of Protein) If I am hungry late

FINALLY! 100 Pounds gone...another 100 ish to go

I finally made it. My target date was July 24th (and was aggressive given the timeline and the Lapband choice instead of bypass) but this morning, on my official weigh in scale, I have lost 101 pounds! I got a small fill on Friday and upped my exercise over the weekend and that seems to have kicked me over the ledge. Now i have to make sure over this week I distance myself from this milestone and set up a new resistance level.   This next part of my journey will be highlighted by starting trai

Late Night Musings

I am not a therapy fan (personal choice) but blogging does seem to fill that sort of role for me. So as I sit here and ingest copious amounts of fluids after my walk, I thought I would toss out my current state, weird milestones and general thoughts at this point in my LAP-BAND® journey.   As of this morning's weigh in, I am 4 pounds away from my first 100 pounds of loss. I do not go back and try and figure out my highest weight this year, but rather use the weigh in amount one first consult.

Plateaus Suck

DISCLAIMER I have been very fortunate. I have worked the plan since being banded and lost weight at a very accelerated rate. I know this. So I know my bitching now may fall on deaf ears but I wanted to put it out there. END DISCLAIMER   When you get used to seeing that weight move every other couple of days, going two weeks with no movement BLOWS! I am within 10 pounds of my first hundred pound loss (and yes, I need another C NOTE to get to where I want to be and even then I will be obese b

Is this what real "Restriction" feels like?

OK, so I planned to go back and do these in some linear fashion, but there is something I need to speak about. I recently had my third adjustment. I have been doing very well, losing weight at a good rate and really having no problems to speak of. As I get closer to an appointment, I notice that I can 'cheat' more and that triggers me to get my backside in for a fill. Well, this last fill is kicking my ass!   I only ended up with a little less than a 1cc fill (bringing me to around 7 cc out of

Early Changes - The Pre Op Diet

I was huge. I weighed in at 431 pounds (and was probably lighter by about 20lbs than I had been in a while). I knew that the Doctor would want me to lose some weight before surgery as a 2 week pre-op diet was part of my particular surgeon's best practices. At my initial consult, the Doc weighed me in and after some review, assigned me a 14 pound loss target (Go/No Go). I was self pay, so my timeline was accelerated. I was to drink two shakes per day and have one sensible meal (yea, I enjoyed the

Why?

Having been fat my whole life (well, the parts I can remember) I knew that at some point my run of good luck on the health side would run out. I had been fortunate to have only Sleep Apnea as a co-morbidity so I enraged my Doctors by being over 400 lbs and still maintaining great BP and blood work (and being surprisingly cardiovascularly capable according to a trainer I worked with).   Well, as life does, things changed. My wife and I had a son and as he grew I realized that what was somehow

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