Tag Archives: Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy

The 100 Workout #WLS #VSG

Posted on by

0

92 Days until my 1 Year Surgiversary!

Like a lot of other bloggers, I have a mild obsession with Pinterest.  I love the whole idea of the site, and I love being able to gather so many great ideas in an organized manner.  I’ve gathered what is probably 100′s of ideas at this point.  Some of them I’ve been great about following through on, and others I haven’t.  I am currently in a phase of trying a “pin” everyday or every day or two.  It adds some fun to your life to try new things!

On Monday I had a telecommuting day, and I was perusing the Fitness category and came across the 100 Workout:

I’m not entirely sure of the origin, but the “pin” links you to Lauren Conrad’s website.  Since Monday was a rainy blah day, I didn’t want to have to head up to the gym, so I figured I’d give this a try.  It was a lot tougher than I originally thought it would be, but it was a fun challenge.  It took me 24 minutes and 32 seconds and according to my HRM I burn 238 calories.  Not too shabby for less than 25 minutes of work.  I will definitely work on getting my time down.  It was also great to know that I could hop on the treadmill and run 10 minutes without issue.  It’s been quite some time since I’ve run, though I’ve been killing other workouts and the elliptical.

What’s your favorite quick workout?

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Fat Days and Skinny Days #WLS #VSG

Posted on by

2

94 Days until my 1 Year Surgiversary

I’ve been having a lot of fat days lately.  You know those days that no matter what, you just feel fat.  Granted, I am still technically obese, so maybe I should feel like this more often.  I’ve been feeling like I still weigh 300+ pounds lately though, which isn’t great for my self image.  I feel blah in all of my clothes, I feel rooley poley like, Pillsbury Doughboy like even.

It’s strange to get on the scale and see a number less than 200, but to look in the mirror, and walk around in my body feeling like I’m 110 pounds or so more.  I was feeling awesome for a while, actually feeling quite a bit smaller than I actually am.  I want that feeling back.  I’m not sure how to make that happen.  Perhaps I need to mix up my workouts some, or change up how I’m handling my food.  I have no idea.

Sorry for the Debbie Downer post, I’m just feeling really blah.

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Perfectly Productive Sundays #WLS #VSG

Posted on by

0

95 Days until my 1 Year Surgiversary!

Today I woke up early after a late, late night celebrating at our neighborhood block party.  It was a huge success, and everyone enjoyed all of the activities that we set up and the raffles that we had.  Food was extremely hard to track from Saturdays festivities, but luckily I can only have a bite or two of things anyways.  Thank you sleeve!

I started my day in one of my favorite weekend ways, with breakfast and Pinterest!  Today I spent some time looking up Gluten Free recipes while preparing my grocery list.

After breakfast was done, I headed out to Target, Wegmans, and Ross to pick up a few needed items and this weeks groceries.  Once I got home I got to work.  As much as I wanted the full 100 days prior to my 1 Year Surgiversary to go perfectly, food hasn’t been 100% on point.  I wanted to get that nipped in the bud ASAP, so I decided to get my kitchen super organized and prepared for the week ahead.  No excuses, 95 days left, I need to get my ‘ish together.

I made a pot of the Black Bean Soup with Chicken Sausage from Fitness Magazine that is a staple for me.  I LOVE this soup.  I will be posting the recipe for it later in the week.  I also made a pot of the old stand by Taco Soup.  I cooked up a batch of Quinoa to prepare for one of the Gluten Free recipes that I am trying later in the week that I found on Pinterest.  I prepared a dinner menu for each day of the week, taking into account which nights I have later classes at the gym.

I feel so organized and productive!  I love Sundays like this.  Off to work on the laundry and to take a bike ride to enjoy the amazing weather that we are having!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Costco Roasted Chickens #WLS #VSG

Posted on by

1

96 Days until my 1 Year Surgiversary!

One of my 100 day countdown to my 1 Year Surgiversary was to post everyday.  This is going to be one of those posts with not a lot of content, sorry!

Food find!

I have bought roasted chickens from the deli before, and have yet to be impressed with any of them.  I’ve tried different flavors and different stores (Wegmans, Whole Foods, Giant, Sutton Place Gourmet, etc.) all to no avail.  I’ve thought about picking them up at Costco, but they’ve either been out, or I wasn’t going to get home in time to properly refrigerate it.  This week the stars aligned and I picked one up.  It was only $4.99, so reasonably priced.  I got it home, and then proceeded to pull it apart.  I removed the skin, the bones and then chopped up the meat and stuck it in tuperware to eat throughout the week.

HOLY BALLS BATMAN this is one moist roasted chicken!  The flavor is fantastic, and even as the week went on, and I microwaved the chicken, it still stayed moist.  My guess is there is some serious brining going on with their birds, but I am probably going to wind up making this a weekly purchase.  Perfect for lunches, snacking, super quick dinners, and high in protein.

Image Credit

Costco isn’t paying me, this is just my honest opinion.  Survey says: NOM NOM!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Donating Clothes #WLS #VSG

Posted on by

0

97 Days until my 1 Year Surgiversary!

For most of my life, or at least adult life, I’ve had numerous sizes in my closet that I could go to as my weight went up and down thanks to dieting/working out/life style changes, what have you.  When something got to big it got put in the back of the closet.  Now when I try something on and its too big, it immediately goes into the donate pile for a trip to Salvation Army.  Here is the most recent pile-o-stuff to head over to be donated.

The pile might not seem huge, but it took up two lawn bags.  The pile includes:

  • 3 Sports Bras (they were hardly used, so I am donating them, usually I wont donate that sort of thing.)
  • 1 skirt
  • 8 pairs of slacks/jeans
  • 7 pairs of workout pants
  • 1 hoodie sweatshirt
  • 11 tank tops
  • 2 oxfords
  • 2 blouses
  • 6 cardigans or sweaters
  • 5 t-shirts

I’m sure the hubs is going to be happy to see this pile finally move off of our bedroom floor.  One of the oxford shirts was never even worn, tags are still on it!

 

WIAW-What I Ate Wednesday Post #VSG #WLS

Posted on by

2

98 Days until my 1 Year Surgiversary!

 

6AM Protein Shake (w/ AM Vitamins)

Remembered it was Wednesday and I needed to snap pictures of my food AFTER drinking my protein shake, oops!

10AM Breakfast-Egg, Egg White, 1/4 cheese, 2 Tbsp Salsa

Lunch 12:30PM-3 oz Deli Turkey, 2 Slices Sharp Cheddar, 1/2 Tbsp Mayo, 2 Pickle Slices

Took about 30 minutes to eat this.

Afternoon Snack-1/2 Cup Raspberries with Stevia, 2 oz Fresh Mozzarella

Dinner 7:30PM-10 Crackers, 15 Carrots and Snap Peas, 1 Glass Champagne, 1 glass Red Wine

No dinner pictures, it was girls night!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Hunger? #WLS #VSG

Posted on by

0

This was supposed to publish yesterday, but I got my dates mixed up, opps!

99 Days to Go!

A lot of post ops have either no hunger at all, or their hunger is dramatically reduced post op.  I’m not talking about head hunger here, I’m talking about true, stomach growling, feed me before I pass out hunger.  The past 3-4 weeks, I’ve been feeling more and more hunger.  Yesterday I found myself doing a lot of reading on what is causing the hunger (mainly because I was ready to eat the arm off of the next person to pop their head in my cube.)  Is it acid?  It seems like a lot of post VSG’ers find that the real cause of their increased hunger is acid related, so they either add a PPI (like Prilosec) or they increase their dosage.

If I’m 100% honest with both you and myself, my tracking has also been a bit of a joke the past 3-4 weeks.  I track 85-90% of what I eat, but that other 10-15% has been things like jelly beans, cookies, extra crackers, extra hummus, etc.  Bad for me foods, typically, but sometimes just larger quantities of the good for you foods than what I am actually tracking.  In the shift to focus on getting through the last 100 days of my first year post op in a very healthy way, I am being 100% honest in my tracking.  I think that what I will find is that my hunger isn’t actually coming back, and that perhaps its not acid, but its been the random grazing that I’ve been allowing myself to do.  I’ve slowly let some unhealthy carbs, primarily sugar, back into my diet.

The good news is that I’m not gaining weight, but the weight loss is at a serious halt.  That isn’t what I went through all of this for.   I am using this 100 days to refocus, to go back to basics if you will.  Tracking, exercising, doing the good work to get the scale moving again.  I’m going to give it a week or two to see if the hunger pangs that I’ve started to feel start going away with a refocus on perfect tracking (weighing/measuring/logging.)  If that doesn’t help, I’m going to talk to my surgeons office about upping my dose of my PPI.  Of course I’ll keep you updated!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

100 Days Til the One Year Mark #WLS #VSG

Posted on by

2

On my wall calendar in my office, I have marked the number of days since surgery, and also what week I am on since surgery.  It’s strange and OCD, I am sure, but I like seeing the numbers.  Each month I add on from the previous month.  It keeps me aware of how long I’ve come since surgery.  I realized about a week ago, that I am officially 100 days away from my one year Surgiversary as of today, and I wanted to do something to commemorate the next 100 days.

Part of me wants to say “I will be at goal weight by my one year Surgiversary.”  It’s only 23 pounds away to my first goal.  I might re-evaluate at that point, but for now that’s my goal.  But I’ve also learned over the last year that at times I have very little control over what the scale does, even when I am doing all of the right things to make it move.

So what will I do for the next 100 days?

  • 100 Days of blogging.  There might not be a lot in some of the posts, but I am committing to blog ever since stinking day between now and August 22nd.  Some days might just be pictures, some days might be regular posts, some days might be food journals, but there will be a post every day.
  • Track 100% on point every day for the next 100 days.  That means even if I lick the peanut butter spoon, I need to track it.  I’d say I’m about 90% with tracking already, but there are certainly bites or nibbles that I miss.
  • Some form of physical activity every single day for the next 100 days.  This doesn’t mean I have to kill myself at the gym every day, but it does mean that I have to consciously do something active every day.  Walking the dog no longer counts L
  • Comment on at least two other bloggers posts every day for the next 100 days and comment on the current activity feed on myfitnesspal at least once a day for the next 100 days.  This one might sound strange, but reading your blogs and seeing your activity on MFP helps to keep me motivated and on point.  It also helps to keep me in the realm of weight loss and doesn’t let me drift.

That’s it.  That is what I’m going to do for the next 100 days.  Will I hit goal in that time frame?  Likely not, would I be happy if I did, ABSOLUTELY.  But I also know the reality.  Things have slowed down, things are harder now.  I think the above will help to keep me on track though!

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

WIAW-What I Ate Wednesday Post #VSG #WLS

Posted on by

1

Bella has started to post the foods that she eats on Wednesdays as part of Peas and Crayons WIAW postings.  I love the idea, so thought I’d play along!

I know that pre-op I was always wondering what people post op were eating on a daily basis, and what a great way to show people.  I am about 8 1/2 months post op, so here is what I ate on Wednesday.

6AM Protein Shake (w/ AM Vitamins)

10AM Breakfast (Egg, Egg White, 1/4 cheese, 1 Tbsp Salsa)

Lunch 12:30PM (1/4 cup wheat pasta, 2 oz ground turkey breast, 1/3 cup marinara, 1 tbsp parm)

Afternoon Snack-Grazed for about an hour on this.  (7 baby carrots, 10 snap peas, 1/2 cup raspberries, 2 Tbsp Bacon Ranch Dip)

Dinner 7:30PM (9 grilled shrimp from inside the tacos at Chilis)

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare

Thai Turkey Wraps #WLS #VSG #Recipe

Posted on by

1

I actually made these a few weeks ago, but I absolutely loved them.  They made great left overs for lunches also.  Super yummy, super big fan of them.

Thai Turkey Wraps

I was big time craving thai food, and yeah these aren’t technically thai food, but it’s what lead to the inspiration of me making these.  Since I am also working towards incorporating more veggies into my post sleeve diet, these scored even more points.

  • 1 Pound 99% Lean Ground Turkey Breast
  • 1 Medium Onion, diced
  • 1 Medium Red Bell Pepper, diced
  • 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
  • 2 Tbsp Reduced Sodium Soy Sauce
  • 2 Tbsp Hoison Sauce
  • 1” Chunk of Ginger Diced
  • Chinese 5 Spice, a dash or two, to personal taste
  • 1 Head Bib/Boston Lettuce (washed and separated)

Saute the onions over medium head for 5-7 minutes in the olive oil, until translucent.

Add in the Ground Turkey and crumble and cook until completely cooked.

Add in the diced peppers

Add in the remaining ingredients (minus the lettuce!)  Cook until desired consistency.

Makes 6-8 WLS Patient sized portions.  Makes 3-4 normal people portions.  The below information is based on 6 WLS Patient portions.

  • Calories: 158
  • Fat: 4
  • Fiber: 2
  • Protein: 24
  • Carbs: 8

Now for the fun part, toppings.  These aren’t included in the nutritional information, so make sure to track those.

  • Spicy Peanut Sauces
  • Sliced Scallions
  • Crushed Peanuts
  • Sliced Peppers
  • Sriracha Sauce (spicy!!)

Tata for now,

Scale Warfare