Some adjustments

First of all, I haven't been on here for a while so a weight update! I weighed in at 224.6 this morning! That's 55.4 pounds off my body, woo hoo!! (222 sticks of butter)I am working towards the goal of 60 pounds gone by the 18th, which is my 3-month anniversary of my surgery. That's 4.6 pounds to lose in the next 2 weeks which is totally doable if I stay on track.

Speaking of staying on track, I haven't been. I got back into a "food is fun" mindset in the past couple of weeks and while I've still been losing a little bit, I've been upset with myself for the foods that have been finding their way in my mouth. Things like candies/sweets and chips/carbs have been uber appealing lately and I have found myself adding up the calories each day and being ashamed of myself. I went through a very serious operation to change my health and I for some reason think that I can now eat junk food? I finally decided I needed to re-train myself from "food is fun" back in to the correct mindset of "food is energy and that's it, hunny!" So, first I pinky-swore with my co-worker, who is also trying to lose weight, that we would not let any sugar pass through our lips for this whole week. This is hard due to the large bowl of Halloween candy in the center of the Accounting office but there is POWER in the pinky swear! Then, I bought a bunch of protein shakes and have returned to a liquid diet part of the day. Protein shake for breakfast, protein shake for lunch, healthy protein and vegetable supper. It makes my mind stop thinking about food all day, takes the choices away (I got to be morbidly obese cuz I am very bad at making good food choices) and gets me back on track with my protein intake and portions. I also decided to jump the working out into full gear for a full week and pulled out my "Power 90" DVD set. It has a strength training DVD and a cardio DVD and you are supposed to alternate them 6 days a week for 90 days to transform your body. So, I figured I'd do it this week, all 6 days, before bed. So far Sunday, Monday and Tuesday I've hit it and it has felt GREAT. I break a killer sweat, get my heart rate cranked up and exhaust my muscles. (by the way I pronounce that "muskels" cuz it's funner) So I feel way better about myself this week, no more negative talk in my head and guilt for eating poorly, and I'm dropping pounds quicker and I can feel a difference in the firmness of my arms, legs and middle. So putting in the work really pays off. I do 20 reps of 10 different ab exercises every night too and I'm thinking of doing that absolutely every day going forward cuz it's something that only takes 10 minutes, you need no equipment and can be done anywhere really. I should really do it morning AND night if I want to get abs of steel, lol! Perhaps it will help with the loose skin issue that I am dreading. We shall see!

So all in all, I'm still learning along the way and trying to adjust when needed and put in the work. When I eat randomly and don't work out the weight doesn't really move much anymore. They stress that weight loss surgery is a tool and after a while, success will depend on me using this tool effectively. I've reached that point where it is definitely my job to do the work to get the pounds off. I'm ready for more sticks of butter to be GONE :)