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Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
When I officially decided that I wanted to have the RNY, the first hurdle I had to tackle was quitting smoking. I wasn't a heavy smoker by any means...maybe two or three cigs a day (usually after lunch and when I was driving home from work because I was a SECRET smoker and never smoked in front of anyone else) Irregardless of how little I smoked, I still smoked and I totally LOVED to smoke. It made me happy and felt like a little treat that I indulged in once or twice a day.
This was the second time I quit....fourteen years ago I was a heavy, pack and a half a day smoker who lived on nothing but Diet Coke and Marlboro Lights. I refused to be a mother who smoked, so I quit when my husband and I decided to start a family. (and got pregnant and gained 80lbs all at once!)
Believe it or not, this time around quitting was harder than the when I was a heavy smoker. I just had a much more difficult time not giving in to the urge...but I did! My last cigarette was back in March. Today I realized that I've reached that point where even if I was alone and had a pack of smokes in my hands, I wouldn't have one, I'd toss them.
The second thing I had to give up was Diet Coke. I expected that to be pure hell, but it wasn't. I switched to the Diet Lipton Green Tea and White Tea W/ Raspberry. I just can't drink water yet. I hate water unless I'm physically parched.
So, now I'm at my next big hurdle. The surgeon requires a ten to twenty pound weight loss prior to doing the LAP-RNY. I've known this since February, but I also knew that I probably wouldn't end up having surgery until at least July and if I lost the weight sooner, I'd undoubtably gain it back before surgery. So I waited. I started really trying to lose weight about three weeks ago and much to my delight (and total amazement) I'm actually doing it! Three weeks ago I was at 272.5 pounds as of this morning I was 265.3! I haven't lost weight in so long that I sort of believed that I couldn't do it! But I can and I'm thrilled!
I've done it by walking every day on my lunch hour. Instead of using the time to go buy fast food, I walk for forty minutes and then eat a lunch that I brought from home. Just that one change has made a huge difference. The walking was tough the first week, but now I find myself actually looking forward to it. I feel so good when I'm done. I can walk a full two miles in that forty minutes!
I'm shooting for a surgery date in the first or second week of July, so I've got about a month to six weeks to get some more pounds off. I hope I can hit at least 260 by then.
Just thought I'd share in case anyone else is in the same boat and is facing hurdles they don't know if they can handle. You can! If I can, you can!
This was the second time I quit....fourteen years ago I was a heavy, pack and a half a day smoker who lived on nothing but Diet Coke and Marlboro Lights. I refused to be a mother who smoked, so I quit when my husband and I decided to start a family. (and got pregnant and gained 80lbs all at once!)
Believe it or not, this time around quitting was harder than the when I was a heavy smoker. I just had a much more difficult time not giving in to the urge...but I did! My last cigarette was back in March. Today I realized that I've reached that point where even if I was alone and had a pack of smokes in my hands, I wouldn't have one, I'd toss them.
The second thing I had to give up was Diet Coke. I expected that to be pure hell, but it wasn't. I switched to the Diet Lipton Green Tea and White Tea W/ Raspberry. I just can't drink water yet. I hate water unless I'm physically parched.
So, now I'm at my next big hurdle. The surgeon requires a ten to twenty pound weight loss prior to doing the LAP-RNY. I've known this since February, but I also knew that I probably wouldn't end up having surgery until at least July and if I lost the weight sooner, I'd undoubtably gain it back before surgery. So I waited. I started really trying to lose weight about three weeks ago and much to my delight (and total amazement) I'm actually doing it! Three weeks ago I was at 272.5 pounds as of this morning I was 265.3! I haven't lost weight in so long that I sort of believed that I couldn't do it! But I can and I'm thrilled!
I've done it by walking every day on my lunch hour. Instead of using the time to go buy fast food, I walk for forty minutes and then eat a lunch that I brought from home. Just that one change has made a huge difference. The walking was tough the first week, but now I find myself actually looking forward to it. I feel so good when I'm done. I can walk a full two miles in that forty minutes!
I'm shooting for a surgery date in the first or second week of July, so I've got about a month to six weeks to get some more pounds off. I hope I can hit at least 260 by then.
Just thought I'd share in case anyone else is in the same boat and is facing hurdles they don't know if they can handle. You can! If I can, you can!