Last Wednesday's Weight: 167lbs
This Wednesday’s Weight: 167lbs
Hi everyone!!
This Wednesday’s Weight: 167lbs
Hi everyone!!
I hope you had a great long Memorial Day weekend! Mine was jammed packed! Friday night, my husband and I went bowling. It was the first time in FOREVER and we had a lot of fun! Saturday my parents had a cookout, Sunday we ended up over at my in-laws where we had a fire and roasted marshmallows, and Monday I had a wedding to go to! Needless to say food was everywhere, and there was SO MUCH of it!! The scale actually went up a couple to just come back down to 167lbs today, I’m so thankful! I really have to watch not just the amount I take in at parties but my choices because I ate so many very salty things.
I am back on track though, more so than I have been in a long time! With the exception of yesterday ( I was not feeling so hot ) I have been committed to exercising everyday. I pulled out my bike this past weekend for the summer and it was so great to get back on it, I love my bike as I am sure a lot of you remember. I also figured out that if I start at the sidewalk right outside my house and go till it ends that equals .5 mile so to go to the end and back home is 1 mile. I walk it, run it, ride my bike, it has been great.
I’ve always thought this, but even more so in recent weeks……you don’t have to kill yourself with exercise, just be consistent!! It might take you longer to hit your goal but just eat well, drink lots of water, and work out for 15-30 minutes a day, just be consistent don’t make excuses. Anyone can find 15 minutes a day; bust out a mile in 15 minutes you can do it!!
You know the creators of Extreme Makeover Home Edition? Well, they came out with a new show, Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition. I recorded it and watched the 1st episode last night. The idea is, this trainer specializes in transformation and he chooses people to transform in 1 yr and in the hour long show you go from start to finish and see the transformation. I really liked it. The girl that was on the first show however, she was telling the trainer that if it was not for the opportunity to work with him that she was going to have to get Lap-Band®. This sort of rubbed me the wrong way I have to admit. She said it like it was a bad thing, like it was shameful almost.
Very few of us have the opportunity to live on campus, and get world class trainers that would cost $1000’s and $1000’s. If I had that chance I could have been just as successful as her no doubt, we all could but these people on these shows are like 1 in 1 million, they basically won the lottery. I don’t know what I am trying to say here really, the comment just made me feeling bad, like I did something wrong almost. I know I did not and I find there to be no reason for shame in making a choice for a healthier life. Does anyone else see where my feelings might steam from here, or am I over reacting??
4 comments:
I forgot that this show was coming on. It rubs me the wrong way too. I have a neighbor who knows I had the surgery. Heck, she brought me home from the hospital b/c my hubby had to work. She keeps saying, "Why arent you loosing the weight faster? It should be flying off you!" This rubs me wrong. I was given a tool, not a miracle. I have to work the tool in order to lose. The less I work at it, the less comes off. I tried to tell her that lapband is the slowest weight loss you can go with, but I am ok with it b/c the slower I go, the better I am at keeping it off. People who look at this negatively really get on my nerves!
I forgot to DVR that show, I did want to see it. I have the same frustrations when people make offhanded comments like that. Which is part of the reason I've only told a handful of people about my surgery. I'll try to catch the show another time, but I appreciate the heads up!
I wish I had the opportunity to take a year off of life and dedicate myself 100% to weight loss. Unfortunately I live in a little place called reality. And in reality this was something I needed to do for me and it takes as long as it takes. I do the best I can with what I have. That's all any of us can do, right?
I don't think you're wrong at all feeling offended by people thinking that the lab band surgery is something to be ashamed of.
However, in the same vein I've only told 6 people about my band. I feel that the people I told will love and respect my choice and not judge me, too many other people have a preconceived notion about what WLS means and what it means doing to your body.
I also completely agree with you about the exercise. I exercise for about 30 mins + 10 mins for stretching = 40 mins every work day. I don't kill myself doing it, I just keep my heart rate up and sweat it out every day.
i will have to record the show. I do hate the stigma that is attached to wls and I hope that one day all of us boobs out there can re educate the world.
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