My WLS Journey
08/04/04
Yesterday I walked 4 miles. It is the furthest I've walked for exercise in 19 years! It took me over an hour and a half but I felt really great afterwards. I flopped into the pool and cooled off and felt great the whole day.
08/15/04 We finally received our new scale on the 13th. It's nice. It is a digital scale but doesn't show up in the dark so I still have to turn on the light to use it. It shows me slightly heavier than our old scale but I've been going in the right direction each day so I'll be back down to my 297 on the old scale in no time.
08/22/04 I finally got back down to my weight on the old scale. Theoretically, I've lost 6 pounds since 8/13 because the new one weighed me heavier than the old one but I'm sticking with the 297 that the new scale is now reading. It's been a bit of a roller coaster month and while I've been pretty good with my food choices, I haven't been walking as much as I should have and I've let the grass grow for 2 weeks without mowing it due to all the rain and me being lazy.
Since I don't have a lot to say these days I think I'll keep the WLS pages for 2 months now instead of just one.
08/27/04 Well, I've gained back the weight I took off last week. Robin got a new job and I haven't been walking at all while trying to get used to our new schedule. I also haven't cut the grass in 2 weeks since I've been so lazy. I think I'll go out there now and take care of it...
08/31/04 After having walked 2 days again I've been able to get back down to 297#. Robin and I really need to make a concerted effort to walk come rain or shine. It's really the only way I can maintain my weightloss.
Since I'm not posting a lot these days I'm going to leave my "monthly" pages up for 2 months. I'll take new pics and post them too come Sept. 1st.
09/04/04 Well, this yo-yo ride continues... I'm back down to 297. Whenever I get past that make and get down to 296 I will certainly be thrilled. 297 was my last weight on the old scale. When we got the new one it was 305. I didn't really have a problem with that, and worked myself back down to 297 on the new scale. Well, the rains came and we stopped walking. They my weight went up a couple of pounds, then I'd walk and the weight would go down a pound or two. Today, I'm back at 297 and hopefully it won't go up. I've been eating fairly well so hopefully I'll be able to get back onto a losing streak.
09/13/04 I walked all weekend and did a great bunch of yard work. All the effort paid off. As of this morning I am down 2 pounds since Sunday. My dreaded plateau is over and I can get the weightloss started again in earnest.
09/18/04 We did the Walk From Obesity 3 Mile Walk-a-Thon today and it was great. Our time was 1 hour and 7 minutes.
09/23/04 Well I popped the question last night and Robin said, "YES!"
I went to Baylor today for an EGD and Dr. Hamilton didn't find anything except my lil pronotix pill just hanging out in my pouch.
Weight Range BMI Where Am I? > 322 pounds =
Super Mordibly Obese> 50 - 252-321 pounds =
Mordibly Obese40-50 * 223-251 pounds =
Severely Obese35-39.9 - 191-222 pounds =
Obese30-34.9 - 159-190 pounds =
Overweight25.5-29.9 - 118-158 pounds =
"Normal"18.5-25 - < 117 pounds =
Underweight< 18 -
09/09/03 444.1#
10/02/03 428.5#
11/07/03 398.3#
12/03/03 384.7#
01/01/04 359.0#
02/01/04 346.0#
03/03/04 338.0#
04/01/04 333.0#
05/01/04 324.0#
06/01/04 320.0#
07/01/04 314.0#
08/01/04 299.5#
08/03/04 298.5#
08/04/04 298.0#
08/06/04 298.0#
08/10/04 297.0#
08/13/04 303.0# new scale
08/14/04 302.5#
08/15/04 302.0#
08/16/04 300.0#
08/17/04 299.5#
08/20/04 299.0#
08/21/04 297.5#
08/22/04 297.0#
08/27/04 300.0#
08/30/04 297.5#
08/31/04 297.0#
09/01/04 298.0#
09/03/04 299.5#
09/04/04 297.0#
09/10/04 298.0#
09/11/04 297.5#
09/13/04 295.5#
09/14/04 295.0#
09/16/04 293.5#
09/17/04 292.5#
09/18/04 290.0#
09/19/04 289.0#
09/20/04 287.0#
09/24/04 287.5#
09/25/04 285.5#
09/28/04 285.0#
Weight Lost to Date: 159.1 pounds in 12.3 months
BMI=4597.1 pounds left to go!
Weight Classification: Mordibly Obese
(150.8# down according to the scales at Baylor)
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