so am I erasing myself? I hope I'm not erasing myself

[kite_head]

Lately I've been dealing with, well, the aging process. Though I'm at my lowest adult weight, I'm not necessarily at my healthiest. In fact, the only time I may have been physically health post-puberty was that brief moment in 2002-03, when I could do hundreds of jumping jacks and over 100 push-ups per work out

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[kite_head]

Yes, gastric bypass is quite the struggle. My mom had hers in 2002 (or '03?) and I have seen her weight continue to creep back up again --because she doesn't follow the diet, and because of other health ailments, she doesn't really/can't exercise too much. Most of it is psychological, though.

As for me, since I had mine in September 2010, they say it is about 2 years for the body to get healthy and back to normal-ish. So, I am at that point --which means that if I don't follow the diet (which I never really did), and don't exercise (which I've only recently gotten into) that the weight will come back to me, too. some of it did, as i mentioned in this entry. In fact, there was also a point (a year ago) where I gained back 10-15 pounds at a time I should have been losing. Well, I lost it and maintained...until the recent setback. But, I'm working through it. I didn't weigh myself this morning, but yesterday it was 215.0.

Yes, I did try vegetarianism from July 2006 to October 2007. I gave up on it when I was totally drunk on my way home and wanted pizza. they were all out of vegetarian options, so I took the meat pizza. and, since I didn't really get sick, and I was pretty suicidal at that point, it just made sense. so, I kept eating meat. I was a really bad vegetarian anyways --cheese pizza and dessert and booze. I lost 20-30 pounds at first, but then gained 40ish, not to mention the effects it had on cholesterol and other health issues (my triglycerides were through the roof!). I love fruit, and veggies are okay, but I need high protein and I was very lazy to cook. I didn't want to learn; meat and processed garbage are my weaknesses.

have you ever tried it?

[inspiredmess]

My mom has done fabulously, she's a tiny little thing. She's very short, around 5'4" I think, and is weighing right now I think MAYBE 110 lbs. She was always very tiny growing up and could never put on weight, but then her mother died and she packed it on and couldn't get it off. She's lost so much she's smaller than what her normal adult weight used to be before the gain. It might actually be a problem now, her being so small, but there isn't much talk about it. She's got some other health issues, though, that might be contributing.

I have been both vegan and vegetarian. Veganism did not last long, I got really sick because I didn't know what I was doing and had to stop. I've been vegetarian several times and am pretty successful when I put my heart into it. Last time was last year when I started dating a vegan, he helped me with it a lot. I stopped when we broke up because it felt like I was getting a personal revenge, but that was dumb. Fuck if meat isn't damn tasty though, I love chicken and bacon.

I can't cook either, I'm so damn lazy. I eat mostly fast food, junk, frozen dinners...it's awful, really. I need to work on it. I don't exercise either, which is also a problem. I'm fairly healthy, I guess, but feel so shit because of what I do to my body.