So I know it has been a few weeks since my last post. I have been staying busy. I am still working on losing weight for my anniversary. I started on my diet on February 29, 2016. So it's been 9 weeks. I simply started slowly reducing my calories, drinking more water. Most of the time it was lemon water. I was drinking green tea every morning with breakfast and every night with dinner. I drank mint tea every day with lunch to help curb the hunger. I had to stop drinking the green tea about March 9 because they told me that it can affect the healing process. I didn't go back on the green tea until after the 22. The hysterectomy really messed with my weight loss plan. No exercise for 4 + weeks then ease into it. I couldn't lift more than 25lbs for the first 4 weeks. It was a struggle with the pain of my arthritis.
So after the pain and restrictions of my recovery I have been slowly working my way back up to the activity I was at before surgery. I added another tea, and black coffee to my routine back on April 5th. I would have the green tea before anything, black coffee with breakfast, Darjeeling tea with lunch, mint tea with dinner, and green tea after.
I have been eating pretty much the same exact thing for 6 /7 days of the week.
Breakfast is, a packet of instant fruit oatmeal, a Yoplait yogurt and a rice cake.
Lunch is a Nutri Grain bar and slim rite (King Soopers meal replacement shake)
Dinner is a filet of tilapia with parmesan cheese, jasmine rice and a salad with raspberry vinaigrette
or a filet of tilapia with taco seasoning, and a taco salad.
Every Saturday is my cheat day and I cram calories. Yay it's my happy day. Other than that same thing everyday. (It's funny because before this month I didn't eat fish.. at all. I tried it once every couple of years.)
Last week I quit drinking all of the teas and coffee (temporarily) because I have had spotting this whole time since my surgery and last week I remembered that the green tea interferes with healing. I took a chance and quit it and my spotting has disappeared.
I have been walking an average of 4-6k steps a day when I was way over 10k before surgery. I am hoping to get more steps in over the next few days and weeks.
I have lost 15lbs since Feb 29. I still have 4 weeks left until my anniversary. Only have 15lbs to my ultimate goal. Yay.
I am using 2 different apps to help me out My Fitness Pal and Up by Jawbone (my husband bought me an UP band back at the beginning of March). I also visit Calorie Control Council often, especially when I lose any weight.
I hope that my progress, these apps and site help anyone else on the same journey as me.
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Life changes update.
I know my last post was a month ago. James and I have been slowly getting ready for our anniversary. We're still up in the air about exactly what we are going to do, but I am totally excited.
I mentioned about how I was planning on taking a huge leap and getting a hysterectomy. I had had my consultation with the doctor 3 days before my post, I had my pre-op appointment 3 days after the post and I had my complete hysterectomy (including fallopian tubes) 6 days later. I had it done laparoscopically. There is an amazing support group for women who have had or are going to have a hysterectomy called HysterSisters.
Having surgery really messed up my diet and weight loss plan. For the first week I wasn't allowed to drive, pick up more than 10 pounds, or do very much. I was very sore and tired. Most of my pain was from the incisions on my abdomen.
The Friday after my surgery my doctor called to tell me that the the results came back from the lab work done on my uterus and she said they found some endometriosis. It is a painful disorder in which the uterine lining (endometrium) that we women normally grow in prep for pregnancy and shed every month during our cycles grows outside the uterus. I read that it is very painful, causes infertility and a slew of other problems. I didn't even know or suspect I had it, I didn't have any abnormal pain, and obviously no infertility problems. So I was a little surprised.
By week two I felt great. I felt and have been feeling so pent up with so much energy but I'm not allowed to exercise until I get cleared by my doctor at my post-op. I am trying to get back to my diet slowly.
Today is my 3 week mark. I am very happy that I chose to do this. It feels good to have this stress off of my shoulders. No more periods yay! Especially when they are too close together. No more fear of getting pregnant (again). Even better I don't have the larger looming fear of losing a baby if I was to get pregnant. I know it is sore subject for so many people. 3 of my beautiful sisters have had to bear that pain and my mother had too many. I kept feeling like odds were stacking against me with each pregnancy. I was terrified. Nightmares during every pregnancy of it, I was always afraid. It is nice to not be any more.
Other than the surgery and post op taking over my life for the last few weeks I am good. I am getting to write more and draw more and I can get back to my blogs and do the things in which I enjoy doing. (Yay more WoW)
Everything important in life is a leap, if you're not reaching for the other side, stretching yourself far, letting go of what is behind you, than you are standing still.
I mentioned about how I was planning on taking a huge leap and getting a hysterectomy. I had had my consultation with the doctor 3 days before my post, I had my pre-op appointment 3 days after the post and I had my complete hysterectomy (including fallopian tubes) 6 days later. I had it done laparoscopically. There is an amazing support group for women who have had or are going to have a hysterectomy called HysterSisters.
Having surgery really messed up my diet and weight loss plan. For the first week I wasn't allowed to drive, pick up more than 10 pounds, or do very much. I was very sore and tired. Most of my pain was from the incisions on my abdomen.
The Friday after my surgery my doctor called to tell me that the the results came back from the lab work done on my uterus and she said they found some endometriosis. It is a painful disorder in which the uterine lining (endometrium) that we women normally grow in prep for pregnancy and shed every month during our cycles grows outside the uterus. I read that it is very painful, causes infertility and a slew of other problems. I didn't even know or suspect I had it, I didn't have any abnormal pain, and obviously no infertility problems. So I was a little surprised.
By week two I felt great. I felt and have been feeling so pent up with so much energy but I'm not allowed to exercise until I get cleared by my doctor at my post-op. I am trying to get back to my diet slowly.
Today is my 3 week mark. I am very happy that I chose to do this. It feels good to have this stress off of my shoulders. No more periods yay! Especially when they are too close together. No more fear of getting pregnant (again). Even better I don't have the larger looming fear of losing a baby if I was to get pregnant. I know it is sore subject for so many people. 3 of my beautiful sisters have had to bear that pain and my mother had too many. I kept feeling like odds were stacking against me with each pregnancy. I was terrified. Nightmares during every pregnancy of it, I was always afraid. It is nice to not be any more.
Other than the surgery and post op taking over my life for the last few weeks I am good. I am getting to write more and draw more and I can get back to my blogs and do the things in which I enjoy doing. (Yay more WoW)
Everything important in life is a leap, if you're not reaching for the other side, stretching yourself far, letting go of what is behind you, than you are standing still.
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