Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Valentine's Day

Happy belated Valentine's Day. It was a nice day although Darrin's back at work. We celebrated on Saturday so that's okay. Had a great supper at Montana's, received candy and flowers, gave a collector's coin. All around pretty good.

How goes the WLS pounds? 182 right now - been stalled for a bit. Not watching carbs or working out enough certainly contribute. I sometimes feel I just can't (won't?) do this anymore. Like there's a choice. Can't undo this one. Anyway, eating with watching calories, carbs and protein, drinking all my water (not getting as much in as I need) and ENSURING I'm getting the protein shakes/drinks in. So far, kind of good.

I am not very consistent with my exercise. It needs to be 3 times a week and it is some weeks, but mostly not. I had started a walk/run program, but only made it 2 times and then haven't been back down there since. (Treadmill is in the basement.)

I thought everything was going to drop off. I read so many stories of people losing 50 lbs in a month; 200 in 6 months. I just figured that would be me too. A large part of that is the fact that those people were in the 300's and 400's. That, combined with even a small amount of exercise, leads to the huge losses. I thought (like many people do) that I would be able to have this WLS and not have to do anything else. Just eat some good food and *poof* the weight will fall off. Well, that's not the case.

I'm confident I'll get down to my goal weight. It's just going to take me longer until I choose to make a difference. Time to get back to my support groups on facebook and get my ass downstairs, and watch my carbs (tough one) and keep them at 40 or lower.