Writing these blogs have been fun, but I don't want people pissed at me. I really don't think people would be, but some might and I don't want that. Thank you again for your support.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Censoring myself.
I normally don't do that, but I really don't want to piss off a bunch of people. I have a post I want to share, but I'm thinking I might not because it could offend a bunch of people. I'm gonna think about it some more. Normally I just write what ever and post it, no proof reading on my part, but as I was writing this last post, I just didn't feel right posting it yet. The post is about being morbidly obese and doing something about it. I feel like I can say what I want about that subject because that is what I was, but I don't want it to come off as arrogant either. I'm gonna give it more thought and if you see a new post with the Title, "15 inches and growing", you know I've decided to post it and its probably going to be long.
Writing these blogs have been fun, but I don't want people pissed at me. I really don't think people would be, but some might and I don't want that. Thank you again for your support.
Writing these blogs have been fun, but I don't want people pissed at me. I really don't think people would be, but some might and I don't want that. Thank you again for your support.
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
This is why I'm hot.
I find it extremely odd that when I'm hot, my right wrist sweats. That's it. Just my right wrist. I have no explanation for it at all. Before surgery I wouldn't just sweat, I'd rain from everywhere. It was embarrassing and horrible. Now I'm cold all of the time! The only time I sweat is when I combine weightlifting and cardio together. And when I do sweat in the gym, it's just a little bit off of my forehead. If Io sweat at all during the normal day, I only sweat from my right wrist. So odd to me. If anyone has any idea why it's just my wrist that sweats, hit me up! Hahaha!
Ok, that is all. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Make it quick and to the point. Oh, also I'd like to profess my love for the band Train! The pic is of the song, Bruises, such a good song. Oh and Black Stone Cherry, two bands that I'm really digging right now. I'm late to the party, I know, but two good bands I definitely love to listen too.
Ok, that is all. Just thought I'd throw that out there. Make it quick and to the point. Oh, also I'd like to profess my love for the band Train! The pic is of the song, Bruises, such a good song. Oh and Black Stone Cherry, two bands that I'm really digging right now. I'm late to the party, I know, but two good bands I definitely love to listen too.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
I Got Worms!!!
Now that I have your attention, Hi! No, I don't really have worms. And no, I'm not using that name for my worm farm business either. I'm referring to these blue things in my arms and hands that I have never seen before, I think they are called veins. Something I thought I never had before. They are becoming more and more noticeable in these last two months. It's kinda nice to see. I would look at body builders and think, damn that is so gross to see, I'm glad my veins don't stick out like that. Well, I'm probably gonna have to get use to that idea because they are pretty noticeable to me while I'm working out.
There are other things that I'm trying to get use to. One, being that I am a two hundred pounder. Meaning, when I say how much I weigh, I get to say two hundred and blank, blank pounds. When I got out of the four hundreds, it was an easy thing to say I'm three hundred and blank, blank pounds. I've at least have said that in my adult life before. Since turning eighteen, twelve years ago, I have never been able to say I'm two hundred something. It's a lot longer than that, but at least in my years of being an adult, I could never say that. I've been trying to figure out for sure what grade I was in when I was two hundred something and I think it was near seventh grade. I know for sure, I was a three hundred pounder going in to high school at the age of fourteen. So as of yesterday, my weight is two hundred and sixty eight pounds.
Another thing I'm trying to get use to is the fact that I'm eighteen pounds a way from my goal weight when I started this journey. Back in August, when I met with my surgeon, he asked what my goal weight would be at the end of this. I told him I would love to be two hundred and fifty pounds in a year and a half. The year and a half is the time frame that most RNYers tend to see all of their excess weight lost, hoping to never find it again! So when I said two hundred and fifty pounds, I figured that would be a year or so away. So to be eighteen pounds away from my goal weight in less than five months is hard for me to comprehend. During my last doctor visit for my three month check up in January, my surgeon asked me again about what weight I'd like to be at the end of this. I didn't really have an answer for that. I never imagined I'd be two hundred and fifty pounds ever in my life. I did tell him I'd like to be two forty by the summer. He's aid that he wouldn't be surprised if I was two forty by June. So my goal weight by June first is two hundred and forty pounds. I did however make a new goal that I'd like to hit by October twenty sixth and that is to be two hundred and fifteen pounds. I would have to lose fifty three more pounds in seven months. That might be a hard one to reach. If I do reach two fifteen I would be, literally half the man I use to be. Half the man I use to be. (STP style)
Four hundred and thirty one pounds use to be normal to me. Now I'm dealing with a new normal. It's definitely a great thing to deal with. Thanks again for all of the support!
There are other things that I'm trying to get use to. One, being that I am a two hundred pounder. Meaning, when I say how much I weigh, I get to say two hundred and blank, blank pounds. When I got out of the four hundreds, it was an easy thing to say I'm three hundred and blank, blank pounds. I've at least have said that in my adult life before. Since turning eighteen, twelve years ago, I have never been able to say I'm two hundred something. It's a lot longer than that, but at least in my years of being an adult, I could never say that. I've been trying to figure out for sure what grade I was in when I was two hundred something and I think it was near seventh grade. I know for sure, I was a three hundred pounder going in to high school at the age of fourteen. So as of yesterday, my weight is two hundred and sixty eight pounds.
Another thing I'm trying to get use to is the fact that I'm eighteen pounds a way from my goal weight when I started this journey. Back in August, when I met with my surgeon, he asked what my goal weight would be at the end of this. I told him I would love to be two hundred and fifty pounds in a year and a half. The year and a half is the time frame that most RNYers tend to see all of their excess weight lost, hoping to never find it again! So when I said two hundred and fifty pounds, I figured that would be a year or so away. So to be eighteen pounds away from my goal weight in less than five months is hard for me to comprehend. During my last doctor visit for my three month check up in January, my surgeon asked me again about what weight I'd like to be at the end of this. I didn't really have an answer for that. I never imagined I'd be two hundred and fifty pounds ever in my life. I did tell him I'd like to be two forty by the summer. He's aid that he wouldn't be surprised if I was two forty by June. So my goal weight by June first is two hundred and forty pounds. I did however make a new goal that I'd like to hit by October twenty sixth and that is to be two hundred and fifteen pounds. I would have to lose fifty three more pounds in seven months. That might be a hard one to reach. If I do reach two fifteen I would be, literally half the man I use to be. Half the man I use to be. (STP style)
Four hundred and thirty one pounds use to be normal to me. Now I'm dealing with a new normal. It's definitely a great thing to deal with. Thanks again for all of the support!
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Busy, busy, busy.
Hey everyone, it's been a while. I've kinda stepped away from most things social networking wise. Haven't bothered much with twitter and just been creepin on Facebook. Ha! I just really haven't had the time or energy to post much of anything. I have plenty of ideas, just been too lazy to type them out. Hopefully this will change soon.
There has been lots of things going on with me lately that have been keeping me busy. The main one has been my youngest daughter, Peyton, had started walking! She's only 10 months old, but she has been walking all over the place! My first daughter, Teagan, started walking 2 weeks before her 1st birthday. So this is a little unexpected. Well, it is, but it isn't. My daughters are 18 months apart, so my oldest has taken longer to hit the milestones than her younger sister. We attribute that to the fact that Peyton has Teagan to look up to. It seems and looks like that Peyton is about 2 to 3 months ahead of Teagan in milestones. If you're not a parent and don't know what I mean by milestones, they are basically Sitting on their own, crawling, speaking and walking. There are others, but you get the idea. Peyton sat on her own at 4 months and started crawling 2 weeks later. It was around 6 months for Teagan to sit on her own and she crawled around 8 maybe 9 months. I'm probably wrong on the exacts, but I think I'm close. The point is, this first year that Peyton has been alive has flown by. At the end of next month,April 28th, will be her first birthday. It makes me tear up a little to think about it. Yeah, I'm a puss, so what? I wasn't like this as much with Teagan. Not that I wasn't sad when Teagans first year came to an end. Not at all. I just figured that we would have another baby eventually. I didn't think it would happen so quick like it did, but still. With Peyton, this is probably our last child, At least for a while. And she has grown up so quick, it saddens the shit out of me, her mom too.
So that has been my biggest reason that I haven't been writing blogs or posting statuses to Twitter and Facebook or doing anything much outside of spending time with my family.
Aside from the fact that my youngest girl will be married soon, I've been busy with a few other things. I started a weight loss challenge a few weeks ago. A friend of mine told me of this weight loss site she is on called Reset Nation Project. It's a little site dedicated to health and fitness. And Sara told me that they were doing a fitness challenge for 45 days. The winner will be based on the combined percentage of total weight lost. The prize? An Everlast Heavy bag! I've wanted one ever since I was young! I never owned one before. The closest I have was taking a wood log about 3 feet in length and wrapping it with 3inch foam mattress pad and duct tape. Needless to say, that didn't last too long before I had bloody knuckles and sore hands. I had Sara check to make sure that I could enter seeing how I had gastric bypass and they said, "Bring it on!". I know that I haven't been losing weight as fast as I was in the first 2 to 3 months. Some weeks I might lose nothing and in 3 days I could lose 10lbs. It's very strange. I still felt a little strange about entering a contest to lose weight even though I had a surgery to help me lose weight. So I stepped up my workouts. I figured if I was going to do this, I was going to work extra hard to lose the weight. I started doing 2 a day work outs 4 times a week. Cardio in the morning, lifting in the evening. Well, that lasted the first week of the challenge. Hahahaha. It was easy to do the cardio in the morning, but in the evening there are a ton of people at my gym when I wanted to lift. When I'm at the gym, I like to move fast between each exercise I want to do. Keeps my heart rate up and gets me out of the gym in under an hour. Well, that wasn't happening when I wanted to lift in the evenings. So I stopped doing two a days and started only going in the mornings. The best part about my gym is they got a new heavy bag!! So I started using that and I love it! I loved it so much that last weekend I went and bought on from Dunhams. Haha! I was so impatient that I had to go buy one for my house, Instead of just waiting to see if I would win one from the challenge I entered. I guess in my mind, I'm not guaranteed to win this challenge, so I figured when we got our income tax money back, I'd just go buy one for $50. I love it!! So who knows, if I do win this challenge, I could always sell the one I just bought. Haha, man I'm such a schmuck. To wrap this all in a pretty bow, I weighed in for the challenge two weeks ago at 286lbs. On Friday, I weighed in at 275lbs. 11lbs in two weeks isn't too bad for me. Again, I'm use to seeing that in a week. #RNYProblems, right? Haha. I'm just trying to make this tool (WLS) work for me as fast as I can. I want to enjoy this honeymoon period while it lasts. :) Thank you again for taking the time to read my ramblings. I'm gonna try hard to update this a lot more frequently! Until next time, have a great day everyone!
There has been lots of things going on with me lately that have been keeping me busy. The main one has been my youngest daughter, Peyton, had started walking! She's only 10 months old, but she has been walking all over the place! My first daughter, Teagan, started walking 2 weeks before her 1st birthday. So this is a little unexpected. Well, it is, but it isn't. My daughters are 18 months apart, so my oldest has taken longer to hit the milestones than her younger sister. We attribute that to the fact that Peyton has Teagan to look up to. It seems and looks like that Peyton is about 2 to 3 months ahead of Teagan in milestones. If you're not a parent and don't know what I mean by milestones, they are basically Sitting on their own, crawling, speaking and walking. There are others, but you get the idea. Peyton sat on her own at 4 months and started crawling 2 weeks later. It was around 6 months for Teagan to sit on her own and she crawled around 8 maybe 9 months. I'm probably wrong on the exacts, but I think I'm close. The point is, this first year that Peyton has been alive has flown by. At the end of next month,April 28th, will be her first birthday. It makes me tear up a little to think about it. Yeah, I'm a puss, so what? I wasn't like this as much with Teagan. Not that I wasn't sad when Teagans first year came to an end. Not at all. I just figured that we would have another baby eventually. I didn't think it would happen so quick like it did, but still. With Peyton, this is probably our last child, At least for a while. And she has grown up so quick, it saddens the shit out of me, her mom too.
So that has been my biggest reason that I haven't been writing blogs or posting statuses to Twitter and Facebook or doing anything much outside of spending time with my family.
Aside from the fact that my youngest girl will be married soon, I've been busy with a few other things. I started a weight loss challenge a few weeks ago. A friend of mine told me of this weight loss site she is on called Reset Nation Project. It's a little site dedicated to health and fitness. And Sara told me that they were doing a fitness challenge for 45 days. The winner will be based on the combined percentage of total weight lost. The prize? An Everlast Heavy bag! I've wanted one ever since I was young! I never owned one before. The closest I have was taking a wood log about 3 feet in length and wrapping it with 3inch foam mattress pad and duct tape. Needless to say, that didn't last too long before I had bloody knuckles and sore hands. I had Sara check to make sure that I could enter seeing how I had gastric bypass and they said, "Bring it on!". I know that I haven't been losing weight as fast as I was in the first 2 to 3 months. Some weeks I might lose nothing and in 3 days I could lose 10lbs. It's very strange. I still felt a little strange about entering a contest to lose weight even though I had a surgery to help me lose weight. So I stepped up my workouts. I figured if I was going to do this, I was going to work extra hard to lose the weight. I started doing 2 a day work outs 4 times a week. Cardio in the morning, lifting in the evening. Well, that lasted the first week of the challenge. Hahahaha. It was easy to do the cardio in the morning, but in the evening there are a ton of people at my gym when I wanted to lift. When I'm at the gym, I like to move fast between each exercise I want to do. Keeps my heart rate up and gets me out of the gym in under an hour. Well, that wasn't happening when I wanted to lift in the evenings. So I stopped doing two a days and started only going in the mornings. The best part about my gym is they got a new heavy bag!! So I started using that and I love it! I loved it so much that last weekend I went and bought on from Dunhams. Haha! I was so impatient that I had to go buy one for my house, Instead of just waiting to see if I would win one from the challenge I entered. I guess in my mind, I'm not guaranteed to win this challenge, so I figured when we got our income tax money back, I'd just go buy one for $50. I love it!! So who knows, if I do win this challenge, I could always sell the one I just bought. Haha, man I'm such a schmuck. To wrap this all in a pretty bow, I weighed in for the challenge two weeks ago at 286lbs. On Friday, I weighed in at 275lbs. 11lbs in two weeks isn't too bad for me. Again, I'm use to seeing that in a week. #RNYProblems, right? Haha. I'm just trying to make this tool (WLS) work for me as fast as I can. I want to enjoy this honeymoon period while it lasts. :) Thank you again for taking the time to read my ramblings. I'm gonna try hard to update this a lot more frequently! Until next time, have a great day everyone!
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