The Power of Exercise!
By MikeHancho
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About a month after my surgery I went to Europe with my family for vacation. Needless to say I was well enough to eat and drink damn near anything I wanted and gain some weight back. When I returned home and went to get my first fill my doctor was less than cordial with me and the weight that I put on. In other words he made me feel guilty as hell and with good reason. Up until that point in time I was letting the "power of the band" lose the weight for me instead of taking matters into my own hands and get down to business. Sure you can lose weight by the mere fact that the volume of food you eat is now cut down to a 1/4 of what it once was. Luckily a good friend of mine and his wife had joined a gym just before I had left to go to Europe and invited me to work out with them. I think I made up about every excuse I could think of so I wouldn't have to join, but in the end it was something that I had to do for myself. This friend of mine is really an inspiration to keep me going to the gym even when I don't want to. I am working out 5 to 6 days a week. I will start off on the treadmill for about 45 minutes with some incline and I am up to about 2 1/4 miles, I'm breaking a pretty good sweat. After the cardio we adjourn downstairs to lift weights for about 45 minutes give or take depending on how busy it is. The weight circuit consists of chest, shoulders, back, arms, and legs. 3 sets of whatever suits me on that day and there you have it. On the days that I don't lift weights I will hit the treadmill for 45 or 50 minutes. I am about 2 lbs away from 1) dropping 50 lbs total, and 2) weighing less than 300 lbs in I can't remember how long. I have to keep doing this for myself since no one else will. It sounds strange writing it down but that is what motivates me to keep going everyday. These milestones are still far far away from the place that I need to be, but this is the closest I have ever been, EVER. I really and truly hope that I have the will power to keep rolling with it because like I said, no one is going to do it for me.
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