time to lose weight!
i have put this off far too long. nathan was born almost 5 years ago and i keep packing on the pounds.
not to mention i have also gained hypertension and diabetes. i'm only 26! yea, this makes me sad.
thursday i went to a bariactric surgery class/consultation. after seeing i was one of the three smallest people there(they did our BMIs), i realized that i can do this by changing my diet alone. right now my BMI is 39.6. i weigh 236.6 pounds. to get bariatric surgery you need a minimum BMI of 40-41. so i barely qualify. my diabetes and high blood pressure put me in the ballpark though. but, i thought about it and remembered my doctor saying if i lose ten, even twenty pounds, my diabetes might be gone. there goes one comorbidity, one less qualification for surgery.
now i got the hypertension around 200lbs. not sure how much i need to lose for it to go away, if it will. that runs in my family and i have a heart problem that has nothing to do with my weight(IST aka inappropriate sinus tachycardia). they might go hand in hand.
i can live with the high blood pressure if it doesn't go away. the diabetes i can not live with.
so my goal right now is to lose enough weight to get rid of the diabetes. i'm going to say 36.6 pounds just to put me back at 200lbs. then we will work on more weight loss just so i don't get diabetes again AND so i can stay healthy.
so, since thursday i have to say i have drastically changed my diet. only a few days, but its a start and i have to push myself to keep this going. i'm bascially doing a natural diet, aka a non diet. i'm eating more 'roughage'(as my mom likes to call it) i.e. frutis and veggies. for meals i have healthy choice, if i choose to eat a meal. breakfast i usually have a odwalla superfood juice. i have some quaker rice snacks if i *really* need junk food. no sweets snacks though. i am trying to curb my sweet tooth by giving it fruit instead.
cutting back on not only sweets entirely, but one cup of coffee a day(no sugar or sugary creamer), milk down to 2 cups(fat free), limiting my fats intake(butter, oils, dressings, etc.), no junk food, no fast food, etc. etc.
does it sound extreme?? not to me. i feel fine, more energetic actually. the healthy choice meals(2x a day) have enough protein and carbs in them. plus the rice snacks are a carb. man isn't meant to live off of sugars and carbs alone in my honest opinion. i don't need doritos, baked potatoes, cheesecake, etc.
will i fail? i hope not. chris is slated to leave in june so this will make it easier i think. he makes it hard for me to diet because he always reccommends fast food. plus he loves my paula deen style cooking. with him gone i can easily eat my 'health foods'. i put that in quotes because i think health food is actually the real food we should eat. but i understand how hard it is to give up food that we grow up on and love. hey, food is an addiction. heck, i'm addicted. i quit cold turkey though. yesterday chris went to mcdonalds and opted for a smoothie(lot of sugar in theirs but better than a burger) and today he got a whopper for breakfast while i drank my superfood juice. i can say no.
i just have to think what is more important...food or me? right now i choose me. i'm tired of being a slave to food.
not to mention i have also gained hypertension and diabetes. i'm only 26! yea, this makes me sad.
thursday i went to a bariactric surgery class/consultation. after seeing i was one of the three smallest people there(they did our BMIs), i realized that i can do this by changing my diet alone. right now my BMI is 39.6. i weigh 236.6 pounds. to get bariatric surgery you need a minimum BMI of 40-41. so i barely qualify. my diabetes and high blood pressure put me in the ballpark though. but, i thought about it and remembered my doctor saying if i lose ten, even twenty pounds, my diabetes might be gone. there goes one comorbidity, one less qualification for surgery.
now i got the hypertension around 200lbs. not sure how much i need to lose for it to go away, if it will. that runs in my family and i have a heart problem that has nothing to do with my weight(IST aka inappropriate sinus tachycardia). they might go hand in hand.
i can live with the high blood pressure if it doesn't go away. the diabetes i can not live with.
so my goal right now is to lose enough weight to get rid of the diabetes. i'm going to say 36.6 pounds just to put me back at 200lbs. then we will work on more weight loss just so i don't get diabetes again AND so i can stay healthy.
so, since thursday i have to say i have drastically changed my diet. only a few days, but its a start and i have to push myself to keep this going. i'm bascially doing a natural diet, aka a non diet. i'm eating more 'roughage'(as my mom likes to call it) i.e. frutis and veggies. for meals i have healthy choice, if i choose to eat a meal. breakfast i usually have a odwalla superfood juice. i have some quaker rice snacks if i *really* need junk food. no sweets snacks though. i am trying to curb my sweet tooth by giving it fruit instead.
cutting back on not only sweets entirely, but one cup of coffee a day(no sugar or sugary creamer), milk down to 2 cups(fat free), limiting my fats intake(butter, oils, dressings, etc.), no junk food, no fast food, etc. etc.
does it sound extreme?? not to me. i feel fine, more energetic actually. the healthy choice meals(2x a day) have enough protein and carbs in them. plus the rice snacks are a carb. man isn't meant to live off of sugars and carbs alone in my honest opinion. i don't need doritos, baked potatoes, cheesecake, etc.
will i fail? i hope not. chris is slated to leave in june so this will make it easier i think. he makes it hard for me to diet because he always reccommends fast food. plus he loves my paula deen style cooking. with him gone i can easily eat my 'health foods'. i put that in quotes because i think health food is actually the real food we should eat. but i understand how hard it is to give up food that we grow up on and love. hey, food is an addiction. heck, i'm addicted. i quit cold turkey though. yesterday chris went to mcdonalds and opted for a smoothie(lot of sugar in theirs but better than a burger) and today he got a whopper for breakfast while i drank my superfood juice. i can say no.
i just have to think what is more important...food or me? right now i choose me. i'm tired of being a slave to food.