Pounds off, go away!!!

Since The end of June I decided after many month of research to submit myself to gastric bypass. It's been two months since I started this journey, I have undergo many test and I am almost ready for that surgery. I am hoping for a November date or late October. I been trying to do my best at eating "healthish" and  working out ;) proportioning my food and keeping a food journal. It's working! 2 months, 13 pounds off. When I get the surgery 13 pounds won't take me two months lol, but this are my 13 hard earn pounds off and I'm celebrating them. Now I am at 273!!! Yay!!!! They don't seem like much to some but for me it's glorious. I have tried so many diets but they don't work! So many pills and nothing, what really works its changing how you eat, not what you eat. Less is more. Small portions tru the whole days still enjoying food. Making healthier choices and sticking to a realistic calorie goal, and lots of protein!  

So I start my day with a small workout, nothing sick, specially because my back hurts a lot and I have arthritis. Maybe dance alone, do a little bit of crunches and some walking around the room to music as fast as you can( don't over do it) because its not going to do u any good if you are to tired or hurt! 

Then, I drink my breakfast shake I add cup of frozen fruit, 1 cup of 2% milk or almond milk, whatever I go there because I'm on a strick budget and healthy is always more expensive, and add a scoop of a protein powder. I used advance super whey. This if very filling but you have to sip little by little probably takes you 30 minutes or more to drink it because its thick! But guess what, you probably will be full until lunch, if you not, have a 100 calorie snack in between. If I'm feeling hungry I grab one of those smart food white cheddar popcorn! Yum. 

Then have a lunch, anything you want try to stay within 400 calories or less 400 is a lot! Yesterday I made chicken chilli, it was the bomb! If you on the road believe or not u can go to McDonald's get 1 cheese burger from the dollar menu and small fries, and still be within the 400 calories. Try to limit fast-food to once or twice a week, but it's doable! 

For midday snack I usually get the sweet tooth so instead I grab one of those detour bars or any bar s but stay within this parameters :

Less than 250 cal per serving

Less than 9gm of sugar

More than 15 gm of protein

Dinner is more challenging, because it usually involves family and my boyfriend, they don't usually want to eat healthy but guess what?! You will and they won't even have to know!!!! 

Eat what is cooked but less of it!!! Measure it out use an app called my fitness pal! It tells u the calories of everything !!! My goal is 1,400 calories a day, and I usually even a little under or a little over on my bad days! However this is very important!!!! DO NOT TRACK YOU CALORIES LOST INTO YOUR CALORIE INTAKE!!!!!

It's impossible to know how many calories you actually lost, everyone is different!!!

Well good luck! I hope this help someone in the long run, I know my goal still Gastric Bypass and maybe in two years if I have loose skin some tummy tuck, but I'm only 30 and I got high hopes for my youth to help me save some money on that ;P 

Psychological Evaluation

So one of the several steps requirements for the Gastric Bypass is a Psychological Evaluation.  I went yesterday, and I was very nervous. However, once I met with the LPN, she made me feel very comfortable, In fact we were joking and sharing stories. It was great, very relaxing, and painless. In within a few minutes I was clear to proceed with my surgery!... So for anyone out there going through this, Take it from me, it was basically nothing, the hardest part far actually getting there, it was around a 25 minute drive.

Steps Completed!!!!

• ü Informational Meeting – 6/25/13
• ü Support Group – 7/2/13
• ü Follow Up Support Group 8/13/2013
• ü Surgeon consultation 8/12/13
• ü Cardiac Evaluation 8/12/13
• ü Dietician consultation 8/12/2013
• ü Sleep Study 8/2/13
• ü Blood Work 08/12/2013
• ü Insurance approval - 7/12/13
• ü Psychiatrist clearance 8/19/13

Letter of Medical Necessity 8/21/13

Nutrition Class 10/02/2013

Surgery date

Sleep apnea ?!

Well the sleep Center call me today and told me that I tested positive for sleep apnea and is severe. So they schedule me appointment to go try the CPAP mask and machine and I have to stay overnight again. In part this will definitely get me approve as a medical necessity however, it's sad that I'm in this predicament. My mother and brother both suffer from this disease, and they let it get horribly bad. But I am going to do everything in my power to not end up with a trachea tube and in a position that I can't barely move. I met my surgeon already I'm in a supervised diet, I'm walking, I'm potion controlling. I'm doing this. 

Sleep Study

Well I'm here on one of the many steps before the Gastric Bypass Surgery, the sleep study. They at monitoring my sleep, movement and ban activity plus recording me asleep and recording sound. I don't know if its the weird feeling that someone is watching me sleep or all the cables but I am not even thinking of sleep. Well this is normal for me I go in to bed and I won't sleep for 2-3 hours. So I'm writing this.... So the room is hotel like, bed is comfy, temperature is perfect, tv in room, very quite in here, nice and dark room, lots lots of cables hooked all over my body specially my head. There is coffee on the way out and granola bars. Awesome roomy bathrooms. So it's not half bad. Just got to get over carrying all my cables to the bathroom hoping I do t drop the little machine in the toilet.... ;) q