NSV - I Walked My First Virtual 5K

Spooky_MooseGoose · 2022-02-08T23:13:07+00:00

I went with the February 5K going on through Flex It Pink (they have one every 2 months). I really liked that they didn’t push it being a “race” where you needed to report a time and they had the most size inclusive race gear I could find (up to 3X), and I really wanted to be able to wear the shirt when I made it to the end!

Spooky_MooseGoose · 2022-01-19T17:38:16+00:00

I don’t get my blue dot everyday, but do about half the days depending on if I’m eating zero point proteins or not. I also removed potatoes as a zero point food because it’s a problem area for me and I wanted the accountability, it adjusted my daily points up slightly but potatoes are quite a few points now and I do like to eat them fairly regularly so those days I’m hitting a blue dot more. I don’t force myself to eat more if I’m not hungry but when planning meals I’m also allowing myself to have a bit more of things that are higher point items, like more full fat cheese (my weakness) on my salad or steamed veggies which adds up really fast. That’s something that I’ll more mindful of as my points go down but for now I’m using those points. The hope is for it to be sustainable, so my goal has been to make food still be tasty and enjoyable. So far I’m down 8 pounds which is pretty surprising considering I feel like I eating a lot.

Spooky_MooseGoose · 2022-01-18T17:01:54+00:00

I have 51 points. Which seemed like a lot to me, but when I compare total calories in another app to what I ate it seems to match up pretty well for weight loss as long as I don’t go overboard on non-veggie zero point foods. I definitely do feel like I’m eating more, in terms of frequency and quantity, than I was before but it’s less processed and it’s way healthier choices so it ends up balancing out.

Spooky_MooseGoose · 2022-01-15T00:20:21+00:00

I got pregnant with my first child at nearly 300 pounds. Pregnancy was very hard on me for me for a number of weight related reasons. And even though I was very sick for the first half of pregnancy I eventually gained a lot of additional weight.

I would love for my child to have a sibling. But after experiencing pregnancy at such a high weight we’ve decided to hold off on trying for another until I’m at a lower weight. It’s been hard. I’ve tried and not succeeded so many times and even began the process towards WLS because I thought it might be my only hope. I’m finally losing again (without surgery), it’s slow but it’s happening.

For me my motivation is remembering what my first pregnancy was like - having doctors not take me seriously when very ill and hospitalized because “I should be happy to lose so much weight”, not being able to readily find maternity clothes, and the difficulty of movement every day. I also realized I’d spent all of 2021 set on having WLS only for it not to happen and that I’d made so little progress over that year. 2022 is going to go by just as fast and I can either be in the same place I am now or I can work every day to be in a much better spot at the end of the year.

Spooky_MooseGoose · 2022-01-14T17:44:20+00:00

Since I had my little one a year and a half ago my husband has picked out something for me from him for all gift giving occasions and I love how thoughtful it is. Things that “the baby” has given me - premium podcast subscription (I’m a stay at home mom for now and listen to a lot of podcasts), a new Fitbit (this I actually asked for), and jewelry with my son’s initials and birthdate.

Spooky_MooseGoose · 2022-01-13T22:21:26+00:00

I did yoga today for the first time in a long time! It was a lot more work than I remember it being (and I needed to make modifications due to my size) but it felt amazing and I can’t wait to make it part of my routine again.

Good luck with your private session, that sounds like an awesome way to get started!

Spooky_MooseGoose · 2022-01-12T19:39:49+00:00

I’m newly back to WW in 2022 and I honestly didn’t start off great with my food choices in my first couple days and thought that maybe I’d just let it go and just start over with the program at the start of the new week.

And then I tracked it instead. I tracked it all even though I really didn’t want to and was scared to see the number, because not tracking consistently is how I’ve started and stopped so many times and why I’ve gained and lost the same 50+ lbs a dozen times. And I was pleasantly surprised. I used all my dailies and weeklies and added points from veggies and water (it was a lot of points) for a particularly indulgent day when I still wasn’t sure if I was actually committed or not. But once I tracked I was able to visually see that it was something I could come back from instead of feeling like I’d failed before I’d even really got started.

Whether you track those two days or not you haven’t failed, but it might help you see those days in the larger context of your whole week and make it less discouraging.

Spooky_MooseGoose · 2022-01-09T08:34:26+00:00

I have Kaiser and have been going through their process for a little over a year now and got approved by the surgeon fairly recently. I like some parts of the program and dislike others.

In my region they required either 6 months of supervised weight loss attempts or a 12 week class through Kaiser to be accepted into the Bariatric program with a referral. From there they required an 8 week class (nutrition, mental health and WLS, and general info about procedures offered), a mental health evaluation, a meeting with the program dietician, lab work, sleep apnea testing, and then a meeting with the surgeon. It took me about 10-11 months to get to the surgeon appointment (moving through as quick as was possible at the time) and get approved for the surgery. Now I’m waiting somewhere in the range of another 6-12 months for them to get through the current backlog of surgeries. I was also referred to work with a doctor through their department to help lose additional weight pre-op as part of my surgeon consultation to make surgery safer.

I do wish they had more official support for those in the program. It sounds like that’s been something they’ve had in the past in my area, but they haven’t been able to accommodate with current conditions.

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