RE: AF Biggest Loser/Fitness Challenge-May 3 to Whenever We're Not Fat Anymore
February 15, 2018 at 11:53 pm
In any case, I went back and checked my doctor visit summaries and fitness tracker records to see where I'm at compared to where I was and what my first milepost goal is. I have a ways to go from there.
Catching up and accountability is a good thing:
March 2016 - G+68 (68 lbs over goal), the heaviest of my life. How I got here was a combination of the breakup of my marriage years prior, quitting smoking and hard drugs, recovering from debilitating mental illness, and apathy.
August 2016 - G+41. Between the above and now I've had surgery to repair an umbilical hernia I had been carrying around for years. Doc wanted me to lose weight before the procedure. I took it to heart. I've also moved into stable, permanent housing that I own. Yay, I bought a bicycle! I'm exercising every day this stage.
November 2016 - G+20. I don't remember the date but I wiped out on my bike in September or October which put the final nail in my right knee's coffin in the form of a wrecked ACL and meniscus. Doc says I have to take it easy.
I'm still at G+25 in March, then a vacation, knee surgery and the decline in activity that followed, bad dietary choices - by last November I was at G+49. Post-surgical recovery was pretty hard. After the holidays we both started getting serious about dietary change.
Today I'm back down to G+33.8, most of it lost in the last couple of weeks. I don't think I'm getting enough calories. Fitness app says my breakeven caloric intake is 3000+ daily, I'm at 1200-1300 for the last four or so days. I'm going to increase my water intake first.
Spoiler: I have a potentially diet-wrecking vacation in two weeks, but we'll get right back on it when we return.
TMI: I'm constipated AF.
Catching up and accountability is a good thing:
March 2016 - G+68 (68 lbs over goal), the heaviest of my life. How I got here was a combination of the breakup of my marriage years prior, quitting smoking and hard drugs, recovering from debilitating mental illness, and apathy.
August 2016 - G+41. Between the above and now I've had surgery to repair an umbilical hernia I had been carrying around for years. Doc wanted me to lose weight before the procedure. I took it to heart. I've also moved into stable, permanent housing that I own. Yay, I bought a bicycle! I'm exercising every day this stage.
November 2016 - G+20. I don't remember the date but I wiped out on my bike in September or October which put the final nail in my right knee's coffin in the form of a wrecked ACL and meniscus. Doc says I have to take it easy.
I'm still at G+25 in March, then a vacation, knee surgery and the decline in activity that followed, bad dietary choices - by last November I was at G+49. Post-surgical recovery was pretty hard. After the holidays we both started getting serious about dietary change.
Today I'm back down to G+33.8, most of it lost in the last couple of weeks. I don't think I'm getting enough calories. Fitness app says my breakeven caloric intake is 3000+ daily, I'm at 1200-1300 for the last four or so days. I'm going to increase my water intake first.
Spoiler: I have a potentially diet-wrecking vacation in two weeks, but we'll get right back on it when we return.
TMI: I'm constipated AF.
