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Matt Z's Blog

A blog by Matt Z in General

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Very tough week

Just not feeling "it" this week.  I'm exhausted, not sleeping well, feeling really run down, drained.  I feel fat.  I know I'm not anywhere near as fat as I was, but... I feel fat this week.  Bloated, gross, fat fat fat fat fat. My sleep **SUCKS** not sure if it's the weight loss changing my CPAP pressure requirements, or something else all together.  I don't want to have to get another sleep study, because they blow, but I know I need some follow up.  Not looking forward to yet another med

Struggles

WLS is hard.  I knew this going into my band back in 2011.  I knew this going to my revision to bypass this past March.  I expected it to be hard.  I'm getting very frustrated with the struggle.  Granted this is coming from a place where I'm working 10+ hour days, we just had to put a dog down, and I'm stalling hard every few days.  My body fat has been slowly reducing but not the weight.  And again, I get that it's a process.  Just venting I guess.  I'm in the gym almost every day, only missed

Day 4 Post Op

Today marks Day 4 post Band to Bypass revision.  Isopure Zero Carb RTDs are going down so easy, I'm getting over 40 grams of protein a day already and upwards of 60 oz of water.  I'm down just over 22 lbs since the 2nd of March already.  Stomach bloating/swelling is still in full effect, but other areas are clearly thinning out.  The 2x daily injections still weird me out.  Overall doing quite well.  Each day things get just a little bit better.

8 Days until Revision

So, I'm 8 days until my revision surgery.  I'm on the pre-op liquid diet and it sucks.  I've started using the PatchMD vitamins, still not 100% sure how they get more weight in vitamins and minerals than 1 patch actually weighs, but I bought them and I'm using them.  I've almost gotten all of my leave situation sorted out, just need to wait for the final thumbs up.  I'm still nervous, but I know I need to do this.  I'm worried about the surgery, the changes that are going to be required and some

Another 1 month Pre-Op

So yesterday I got a tentative surgery date for the 21st of March.  This one is hard.  It seems that with my new job, I don't have TDI.  So I need to file a ton of paperwork to see about getting donated leave to cover the 2 month recovery window for this revision.  So needless to say, I'm very stressed out about all of this.  I'm at a point where, if I can't get the leave, I can't get the surgery, because I can't go 2 months without pay.  Very upsetting situation to be in, finding out that I don
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1 Month Post Op

I'm considering reducing my blog posts to either every 2 weeks or once a month+ anytime I have issues I need to voice, I don't know, I guess we'll see.   This past week has been interesting. Being firmly locked in Bandster Hell I'm having slight intake control / willpower issues. I'm still well under my calorie burn totals for the days, but I'm eating more. When I'm at work, it's easy to keep my intake under control, but weekends and at night, not so much. Just need to tough it out until t
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Week 3 Post-op Wrap Up

So today is the end of my 3rd week. Saw the doc on monday and her scale said I was 321.6. Not sure exactly how my medical scale (with weights and slide) compares to her digital one. The 321.6 was weighed with shoes and all, so I don't know. I haven't weighed myself today because I returned to work. So lets start the weekly break down.   Physical: I've noticed a very large increase in energy. To the point where my wife is getting very happy because I'm doing stuff around the house, not j
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Week 2 Blues

Weighed in today, 319. Only 2 pounds since last friday. I know why and I have to change it. I've got zero restriction now that the swelling has gone down, I'm eating around 1200-1500 less than I burn each day, so I'm a little unsure at the lack of weight change. I know 2 pounds a week is a good rate, but it's disappointing. I'm mad and upset. But I know it's ok.   What am I going to do about it? I'm going to get my ass out and walk more. I'm going to ignore the growls creeping out fr
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1 Week Post Op

Today marks my 1 week post op and what a week it has been. Let me recap in a few important catagories.   Physical I've experience the pain, which in all honesty isn't as bad as I would have expected. If we ignore the day of surgery and the day after, the rest of the week has been ok. I haven't needed any pain meds since the 3rd day post op. Pain has been limited to gas pain and incision site pain, both completely tolerable. The begining of the week I was a bit more tired than usual and I
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Post Op Follow Up

Thanks for all the pre-op support all, I'm still feeling kinda icky, but I'm home and I wanted to provide a proper update.   Friday the 18th of 2011 at 6:30 am I was admitted into the Rhode Island Hospital Outpatient Surgery Center. The staff was nice for how early it was. I checked in and around 7:00 am I was taken back to the prep room. I geared down and johnny'd up, complete with the fantastic johnny socks compression socks and a fabulous blue hair net. I voided, and I will tell you thi
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The pages of this chapter come down to their last.

I am to be admitted at 6:30 am tomorrow. Sigh. That's earlier than I would have hoped, not because it's early in the day, but because I have sleep apnea, that means I'm there all day, all night and part of Saturday. My poor wife is going to be sitting around doing not much of anything for hours on end until they kick her out for the night. At least by this time tomorrow I'll be banded.   Today has been ok, the emotional rollercoaster started off early, but right now, I'm 100% not phased at
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The Last "Hoorah"...

Today is my my and my wife's 13 wedding anniversary. We had a celebration with family at my mom's house. I had a muscle milk light for breakfast . I went in with intentions of knowing I was going to eat,but that I would going to limit my food intake, but ended up doing what I usually do and eating far too much. I stumbled today. But I'm not going to beat myself up about it. I consumed my salad first, and only had 1 helping of Lasagna and 2 bread sticks. I drank water. I did have a slic
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Last appointment down, next up lap-band

So, I had my pre-op class/appointment today. It was really odd because besides my wife, I was the ONLY person in this "class". Lucky for me I knew the instructors, so it went by easy. We skipped over things I already knew and went into more details on those topics I wanted more information about. Overall, it was nice.   I got my final pre-op "official" weigh-in, 336.8 lbs. I started the whole process when I topped out at 350 about 4 months ago. My last weigh-in was on the 31st and it wa
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Lets get the party started....

Ok so lets start this out with a bit about me. My name is Matt I'm currently 32 (birthday Nov 15) I'm married I have 2 boys I have many many many hours of tattoo work, with lots still not finished I have my septum and lobes pierced, my septum was stretched up to 00ga, but is now without jewelry, my ears are just shy of 1 3/4ths of an inch I'm a Veteran I'm an Information Technology Security Degree holder I'm a contractor for the Department of Defense   I was overweight as a child, was
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