01-13-09 – Happy Belated New Year!

OK, I see it’s been more than a month since my last post.  I think that’s the longest I’ve gone without posting anything since I started the blog.  Sorry about that.  I don’t really have any excuse other than just pure laziness.  Also, I was just very bad with my meal and exercise plan over [...]

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09-29-08 – Third Life Skills Class

I had my third pre-bypass surgery life skills class tonight.  Like the other two classes, this one was divided into two parts.  In the first part, the dietician did a review of post-surgery nutrition, then gave us our “final exams” (it was 24 ridiculously easy questions!).  In the second part, the nurse case manager went [...]

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09-22-08 – Second Life Skills Class

I had my second of three life skills classes tonight as part of the prep for gastric bypass surgery.  Tonight’s topics were psychology and exercise physiology.  The psychologist talked about changes that may take place after surgery, both in how we perceive the outside world, and how the outside world perceives us.  We also went [...]

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09-15-08 – 1st Life Skills Class

I had my first pre-bypass surgery life skills class tonight.  The subject was post-surgery nutrition.  The first month after surgery will be all pureed foods and liquids.  After that, I will proceed to soft foods for a while.  We did a taste test of some protein drinks.  The first one was vanilla, and it tasted [...]

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08-08-08 – Time for the weekend!

I’m heading up to my father’s house for the weekend.  I’m not sure what needs to be taken care of yet, but I’ll find out when I get there.  I’m not going to let him get on my nerves this weekend.  And, I’m going to stick to my meal and exercise plan.
I’ve forgotten to mention [...]

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Healthy You Challenge Update

I have two major achievements to report this week! First of all, the non-scale achievement -
I live at an apartment complex called “Top of the Hill”. As you may imagine, it’s on the top of a hill. On one of the walking paths, there’s a fairly steep incline (steep for me, that [...]

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07-14-08 – Another 5 pounds lost

According to this morning’s weigh-in, I am down another 5 pounds, so I have lost a total of 21 pounds since the end of March.  Although there is nothing on my “I want” list that is dependent on any number that the scale shows, I obviously have to lose a lot of weight before I [...]

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Article on Weight Loss Surgery

I saw this article a couple of weeks ago, then found it again this morning, so I decided to link to it.  It’s about how weight loss surgery can cut the risk of cancer by as much as 80%

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07-01-08 – Is it July already?

I can’t believe that half the year has already past. 2008 seems to be sailing by like the Starship Enterprise at Warp 9. For me, the year started with 2 1/2 months of physical therapy for sciatica, which as I’ve now found out after a CT scan, was being caused by spondylolysis, a [...]

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06-26-08

I don’t know; I’ve been seriously stressed out for about the past week-and-a-half.  This morning when I woke up, I was hungry.  After I ate breakfast, I was immediately hungry.  By the time I ate my morning snack, I was more hungry.  After the snack, I was still hungry.  Then I ate lunch.  I was [...]

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