Well,
I was right, I didn’t get in and out of IM appointment as quickly as last
time. I got in to see the nurse right
away, but then was waiting for the doctor for two hours. Apparently the doctor I was supposed to see
got snowed in, so he was filling in. He
said I was a low risk patient for surgery next week. That is good news, nothing I didn’t know
though. As a precaution he might order a
nebulizer before surgery to make sure my asthma is calm. Not a bad idea, so that at least made it a
little worthwhile for an appointment.
While
I had someone, I asked him about weight loss and nutrition. He in general said to go to a nutritionist,
as he didn’t want to give me bad advice.
So I did say what we were doing for Carb/Protien/Fat proportions, and
asked where squashes fell in the vegetable category ie potatoes >
broccoli. It is somewhere in the middle,
which is what I had figured. Overall,
our diet plan is pretty good, from what he was saying. The problem is sticking to the plan.
As
far as our “diet” is going, the past few months have been a valley of
denial. Not going completely off the
rail, but we’re not really making progress either. My wife stopped logging onto MFP a while ago
now. Without her doing it along side, I’ve
been lazy with my logging, and not doing it to the extent it should be done, as
well as missing days entirely.
I’ve
stopped walking at lunch, even before the snow arrived. The main reason was sweat. The more I walked, the more I wanted to
walk. That is great in theory. The downside to this is; it is a break at
work, and the first place I sweat is my head.
My hair was beginning to look pretty slick in the afternoons. Yuck. The
doctor gave me an idea though. Nearing
the end of the day, go up and down the flight of stairs in our building a few
times. It is only a few minutes of
workout, but it is more calories burned than walking, and it is at the end of
the day, so I wouldn’t need to worry as much about the sweat in my hair. So I’m hoping to get that into action, maybe
even today. I say this as I snack on
Kellogg’s Krave cereal, with 0 nutritional value, other than “fortified
vitamins” I’m sure, as an after lunch snack.
It is a good think I only have a measured portion of this, as this
cereal is a very moreish item. If left
unchecked I’m sure I would eat the entire box.
Alas, I think we will buy these anymore once the box is done.
On
the hopefully up side of our diet, we have purchased a book; A Year Full of
Recipes. So far this is inspiring us to cook from
scratch, thus having less processed foods.
With some modifications to reduce oil used and various spices we don’t
care for, these recipes have been a hit, and most meals being between 300-500
calories with sides on the recipe. My
wife has been doing the cooking so far, which is a lovely thing for her to do. They are very filling dinners that are fairly
nutritionally balanced, without overdoing it on the calories. Yes they have some deserts, and we will
probably make them, but the idea is only have deserts once/twice a week,
instead of every day, which is a routine we have fallen into, even if they are
small desserts.
I
hope this meeting with the doctor is enough to help get me started again, be
more focused on losing weight, while I have the time, before I try to get
pregnant. In the past year, since we
bought the Wii Fit, I have lost about 12 pounds. That is one pound a month. This is not a large progress, but it is solid
progress in my eyes. We’ve made small
changes here and there, but seem to lack the combination of using the small
changes together to make a larger difference.
Hopefully over the next year we can work on that. The one thing is though, we have been at this
a year. We haven’t been 100% goal
oriented, but have majority kept going, kept plugging away. I think this is the longest period of time
where weight management has been at least remotely on my mind. Some things have taken the focus off, Deb
quitting smoking, going on a vacation, clearing a hoarder house, and a cruise
full of buffets, but we have kept going and kept most of the weight loss off,
so now is a time to start going down again.
Everything
in life has peaks and valleys, but at least life isn’t flat and boring.
Sorry for the long winded post, just a lot to say today I guess.
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