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ok  a shameless plug for a movie i just got back from.

TAG  is very funny and if you want an enjoyable and laugh out loud couple of hours go see it.

Ok , you can all have a laugh at my expense today.

As a kid i never cared for PB&J i would eat one if it was all that was available but i always preferred a tuna sandwich.

The other day my daughter comes over with an All Natural Peanut Butter and as we are talking in the kitchen she opens this jar up and the smell just about knocked me over. It was amazing. So i got a spoon and tried it straight, no jellies for me anymore, I was blown away with the amazing taste. Now i don't know if this a case of taste buds changing or just good Peanut Butter but that was a great treat. So i now have a jar in my kitchen and while i only eat a spoonful of it on any given day i am still amazed at how great it tastes.

Happy Holidays, I hope you are all doing great over this holiday period.

ok just the oddest call today.  I called my surgeon's office to schedule my 1 year follow up and i pressed 0 to schedule an appointment just like the phone tree asked me too.

i was connected to what sounded like a very pleasant but young lady.

I told her what i needed and she ask me for birth date and name and then proceeded to ask me why i wanted an appointment when i was just there in Feb.

First this caught me off guard cause i have never had a doctor's office try to talk me out of an appointment.

So i explained that yes the Feb date was my 6 month follow up and now it was time for my 1 year follow up.  She didnt say anything for a few seconds then just asked me to hold and transferred  me to my surgeon's office.

I told the receptionist in the office about the odd encounter and she just laughed and said she would have someone speak the woman.

It was just a few seconds and after it was over i found it pretty funny.

and on the workout front i went back to the gym today but just did legs, crunches and the dreaded treadmill.  Still not cleared for anything that engages the tricep but decided i could do the things i dont like even if i could not do the parts i enjoyed.  

hope your all doing well

ok this one is a tough one to get thru  but the section on circadian rhythms is real interesting.

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-nutr-071816-064634

ok, I know it proves me as weird as some of you always thought but this was a fun site to kill time on.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/

enjoy 

skip the add at the start.   the study is the interesting part

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/oby.22345

study alone

So according to a web site calculator that does math so much better than me i have reached 81 percent of excess weight loss. I should be very happy but i find myself stuck wanting that 100 percent number. 

i know I have plenty of time to reach my goal just thought it funny that i cant seem to take as much pleasure in what i have achieved as what i want to achieve.

Dam the Mind games we play with ourselves.

you all have a great day.

So after a busy and hectic day yesterday i stepped onto the scale this morning and low and behold i had reached my final goal of normal BMI range.

The Doc thinks i have pinched the nerve in my elbow and that is causing the tricep numbness.

She is sending me out to an Orthopedic specialist just to see if they have any ideas but since there is no pain involved  i don't see letting them cut on me.  To much downside for so little upside.

Thank you all for your support during the last year.

I do lurk around from time to time and read your posts so stay true to your program and go get that success you all deserve.

so for 2nd time since WLS i have managed to hurt myself. Pulled the tricep muscle right at the top of the elbow and now even the dam coffee cup hurts.

Doc has me out of gym for 10 days and then back slowly  if i dont want to screw it up again.

So i did my weekly weigh in 1 day early cause i like to get my weight on the first of each month for my anniversary date.  So I have completed 10 months now and feel i guess settled. My routine feels normal and my day to day just feels like living not like i am doing something special or temporary. I guess that's good in that i can do this day in day out but also feel worried i will take to much for granted now that it feels "easy". I have gotten used to not eating bread with every meal, well any meal really, and i don't even think about it anymore and thats a big deal for me cause the bread was (IS) my Kryptonite.

Got my monthly Costco run to do today so looking forward to spending a few hours running around and hopefully i can beat the crowds by going this morning.

We are warming up nicely around here but thats expected this time of year.

I am wondering how i will handle the heat now that i have lost some weight.  Hoping i cope better with the 100's now that i have reduced my internal insulation.

Have a great weekend and stay safe and focused on your goals.

So i had my 1 year follow up and i am off all supplements with the exception of a Centrum Silver.

All my blood tests were normal and my blood pressure was 107/70.

My surgeon was of course very happy with the level of weight loss and was very positive about the low carb diet i choose to live by now.

My tore tricep has left a numb section about 3 inches long by half inch wide along my tricep.

getting a referral to look at that issue.

Surgeon suggested i stop chasing the "normal BMI" but i haven't decided yet, it is the last goal i set for myself and i am so so close.

I hope all of you are having a great summer and i wish you all the success you deserve.

So if my weight loss hold this week i will cross from obese to overweight on Saturday (fingers crossed) but i realized i have ran out of short term goals.

1. get under 300   check

2. break 250    check

3. get down to that lie i had on my drivers license     check

4. get below 200  check

5. get out of obese classification    check (maybe Saturday  )

6. put on those levi 501's size 34 that have been  waiting for me for 3 weeks now.    check

All i have left is the final goal and oddly i feel just a little lost for the lack of that next goal.

all that short term focus and i haven't really planned the end game much.

time for some long thoughts - crap always do better if i stay out of my head

well thanks for letting me rant on.

hope you all are having a good week

So my daughter reminded my she had a snap shot on her phone of me from about 3 months before i started this journey so pretty close to my max weight. I have had it for few days now and had to work thru my emotions before i could clearly decide if i wanted to post this or not. So the beard hides my 3 chins pretty well but well you can see for yourself. loose skin and all

so my first night of decaf coffee.  different taste for sure hopefully will get used to it.

trying to decide if i should go back to regular during the day or just stay decaf 24 -7

if i dont get used to taste i might have to go decaf just so i will not notice the taste change from switching back and forth

So Saturday will be my last weigh in for the month and that will bring me to the end of 10 months.

Odd how it feels like only yesterday that i started and like i have been doing this process forever at the same time.  As the weight has come off i have found it so much easier to do things and my daily activity level has certainly increased and because no good deed goes unpunished i can now feel all the things i didn't deal with when i should have.

So as soon as i hit the 18 month mark or my goal whichever comes first i guess i'll bite the bullet and get the knee i tore up 15 years or so ago taken care of. Don't really look forward to it but the more i do the more problems it causes so me and the knee and i are at an impasse. 

Only need 5 pounds a month to hit my goal by the 18 month mark so if i dont have to much of a drop off as i go further out i should get there ok. May is looking like the first month with a smaller drop at 6 pounds. Months 2-9 have all been 8-10 pounds steady.

I do wonder does the weight loss just stop on its own? i guess i will be able to eat somewhat more in another 6+ months. I am full when i finish eating now but i still dont break 1k calories.

well whatever happens happens.  It has been a hell of a ride so far.

been thinking about faking a midlife crisis and getting a motorcycle , lol, stopped riding when  i was in my 20's.  Nah just file that away as yet another bad idea. You would not believe the congestion on the freeways around here or maybe you will guess that depends on where you live. There constantly trying to add lanes but they are always 10 years to late with whatever expansion they are working on. 

Ran out of protein drinks yesterday so it looks like Costco is on the schedule today and may go see Solo since we will be out and about anyway. Like to pack our trips out of the house full cause she will be be whipped when it is over and that will be it for a few days.

well i am way past the babbling point so if i dont stop and post i will end up deleting this whole thing.

You all have a great weekend.

So the doc wants another week before i try lifting again and then only light weights for another week after that.

i don't know how much of this slow healing process is me just being an old **** or if my post op diet is slowing things down or hell maybe Tricep tear just takes along time to heal.

I do know i dont want to do any damage to it again. Not being able to do much of anything with your right arm is a pain in the ass if your right handed.

well me and the wife and daughter are off to Reno for a family reunion this weekend so that means lots of vegan food (daughter)  sigh 

i will weigh in real early in the morning and post my Saturday  update if i lost any weight this week.

need 4 more pounds before August 1- will have my 1 year follow up with surgeon in first week of August 

Hope everyone has a great weekend and i'll be back monday to rant and rave against the evils of added sugar and processed carbs.  

so this is me at or near my max weight and today, 1 year after surgery.

i opted to show the loose skin because everyone asks will i have loose skin and the answer is yep.

put on jeans and a nice shirt and all is hidden from the world  

So today i weighed in at 188, the same as the day i entered boot camp in 1984.

Guess that leaves my next goal to be getting to the same 170 i weighed when i left boot camp.

That truly was the best shape i have ever been in.  Funny but even then my bmi would have been listed as overweight.

I have always carried the bulk of my weight around the middle.  55" around the waist was the largest  i ever measured and that was 1 month post op before i could bring myself to look at the number.  Today that is 40" 

I am truly saddened when i see the posts of people struggling  so much post op with pain or illness because i so want everyone to have the same amazing experience i have enjoyed.

We all experience this journey differently and i truly hope you all reach a goal that brings you a level of comfort and happiness that you deserve.

So today was my monthly Costco run and i am trying a new protein drink.

plant based (Peas) instead of whey based.  I really really hate peas so i was worried but it is not bad.  Not as "smooth" i guess is the term i am searching for. The whey based was very creamy and smooth and the Pea based one not to the same degree.

I will use the whole 18 pak over the next few weeks and see if i just get used to the new mouth feel.

this one is a bit of a slog to get thru but it is important to see the differences they are trying to define.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2A9776922A28F8F757BDA32C3266AC2A/S1368980017000234a.pdf/un_decade_of_nutrition_the_nova_food_classification_and_the_trouble_with_ultraprocessing.pdf

Today in Topics "What your Doctor didn't tell you"

Brrr…! Remember the days when you were the hottest one in the room, and all you wanted was to stop sweating? Those may be in the past. Part of the slowed metabolism can be due to your body’s new mechanism to save energy, which means turning down the thermostat. Another possibly surprising side effect of weight loss is that having less cushioning (body fat), so sitting in chairs or lying in bed can be less comfortable.

man o' man do i know this one  

Weird Al doing Yoda live.  What a great night.

hope everyone has as good a weekend as me  

Well January finally did it. Started the month and ended the month at the exact same weight.

First time my weight journal has had a Zero written in it.

Feb 1 is the 18 month mark and it does feel like the end of one journey and the start of another.

Do not see the surgeon again till August but he was happy at 175 so i do not see any issues there.

Well not the greatest start to my day, only down 1.5 pounds and missed the crossover from obese to overweight. So another week i guess. Well at least its down even if slower than i would like.

Tuesday is nine full months and some days it feels like a blink and others like 9 years.

got to get some coffee in me, to dam early in the morning for coherent thought.

enjoy your weekend

WOOT!!  First day back in the gym since injury and it felt great and despite my fears the arm feels good and i am very happy right now