Fiddleman

I waited 7 months and it was for a special dinner with my wife. We had some fine Chardonnay.

Eh, no. I get terribly light headed if I miss eating every 3 hours. Feed me. Feeeeed me. Feeeeeeed me. Heheehe.

All the people who are starting the jog/run journey is really motivating. Way to go! This is going to be a really big group of joggers and runners under fitness in no time. How cool is that! Cheers!

What is all this negativity that various posters keep posting about. Ok, so there are posts like "why lie," "popcorn" and " cookie" threads but, come on, we all are in this together just let it roll a little. No one is anymore superior then anyone else. We are all friends who have a huge overlapping set of common attributes. I am a little surprised and see VST as a very positive community environment. It is not only a place to get support, but also a place to commune with fellow sleevers. I am sorry, I just do not see or experience it. Anyone want to give some concrete examples that are leading some folks by disowning VST? I admit I do not read everything, but I do a fair amount of reading as well as posting in many different forums. I think it is a great place to be.

My day job is sitting for 10-12 hours a day unfortunately. Even though I get in 1 hour of rigorous exercise once a day (running or cross train) I found it still a little draining to sit all day. One tip that has helped me is to add in two little mini fitness routines during the day, one when I get up at 5:30am and one an hour after eating lunch around 12 pm. It is pretty short, between 5-10 minutes long. It is usually a slow 5 minute jog on the treadmill (4.5 mph) and then some in place stretches and light weight routine (10 lb) consisting of flys, curls, squats, laterals and so on. The whole thing is fairly low key, but is enough that I will get a light sweat going and really gets the circulation going in my legs and upper body so sitting is a little easier. I also try and get up once an hour and move around, if only to get some water or stretch a little in my office. Just thought some others might benefit from this tip. Nothing new, but it is really helpful to feeling good at a desk job.

I carried a lot of weight in my stomach area before getting sleeved. By eating a low carb diet for post op, I believe that losing the visceral fat around my stomach was much easier. I did not eat any carbs that were not already part of my high protein diet except for carbs found in the light soy milk I drink. Everyone is certainly free to eat in the manner that suits them, but I have found eating between 20-30 carbs a day, perhaps less, has really helped. Keep in mind I eat a fairly restricted diet that might not be suitable for everyone.

Walking definitely gets easier after the sleeve purely from practice, practice, practice. By walking a little bit every day after surgery you will gain strength, endurance, and greater lung capacity. Start out just walking a block after coming home. Try and increase your walking every day going longer distances and picking up the pace. If you have time and the energy, try walking more then once a day. After a few weeks, you will be surprised at what can be accomplished with walking. Do give yourself proper recovery time. There may be days when you just do not feel like walking and that is perfectly ok.

I am very sorry for you to get this news from the doctor. Anything I say cannot undo the sadness on your heart right now. We wish you the best of recovery and are hoping for the best. Please keep us posted. We are here to provide support.

Really great!

Ehhhh, I would congratulate you but having the flu is not fun.

Great read! Thanks for posting. I am always thrilled to read about the "why" behind certain physical processes such as weight loss. It is like we all bought in to the same Rules of weight loss before, but then never asked why certain rules should exist. What if the rules are wrong or they do not equally apply to everyone? It was like a dumbing down of information for the masses. I suppose there is a place for that to help the gaussian averages succeed, but it lets the minority hang out to dry when something deviates from the Rules. The more you know, as they say... once we know the why behind the rules, then we can form our own customized set of rules that help us succeed at an individual level. It is kind of like knowing that 2+2=4 and then finding out the proof behind that is 4 pages long of abstract mathematics and number theory.

By the way, you are doing great!

Ha, that is kind of funny.

Oh and I started to wear medium spandex last week. That might be helping my run times.

Cool, thanks for sharing!