The Further Adventures of Deluzy: Starting here

Health and Wellness

The Google 15
An excellent weight-tracking tool that keeps track of your moving weight average over time so that no single weigh-in is a cause for ecstacy or despair.
Understanding Your Tests
A good preliminary resource for understanding your lab work (though of course it's no substitution for discussing results with your doctor)
FitDay - Free Weight Loss and Diet Journal
An essential tool for me during my first 6 post-op months -- and a good reality check for anyone keeping track of daily food intake (e.g., calories, fats, carbohydrates, etc.) and activity levels
Gmaps Pedometer
A wonderful tool that allows one to map exercise routes and calculate miles covered and calories burned

Products I Like

Spanx
A line of comfortable foundation garments (and even easy-to-pack clothing) that comes in handy post-op to corrale that wayward, formerly obese flesh and make you feel comfortable. Available online, at Lane Bryant in larger sizes, at Nordstrom in smaller sizes, and sometimes at outlets for less.
Pure Protein RTD shakes
At an average of 35 grams of protein, 3 grams of carbs, and 160 calories, these ready-to-drink shakes work for me because I can chill them, grab them, pack them, and go. Available from a variety of online sources or at GNC stores.
Perfectly Sweet
Expensive but excellent source for sugar-free and no-sugar-added bakery and candy items.
Low Carb Corner
As near as I can tell, this site sells nothing but two kinds of breakfast cereal -- but as one who's avoided cereal since my DS surgery because it contains virtually no protein and far too many carbs, Protein Crunch is a wonderful option (i.e., 27 grams protein, 2 net grams carbs). It's horrifyingly expensive but for WLS cereal lovers, it's worth the occasional splurge.

Friday, March 17, 2006

Starting here - Happy St. Patrick's Day

Hmm ... I'm not satisfied with the design of this blog, but since I'm not an HTML whiz, I have to make do, more or less, with the templates they've got here. And let's face it, they more than serve my purpose, which is not elevated or elaborate. I'm just trying to stay in touch with this peculiar head of mine, with my surgically altered innards, and with the uneasy relationship they have with one another right now.

Weight loss has stalled for a couple of weeks which I find entirely irritating. I'm eating no more than 1,200 calories a day, max (I track things rather obsessively on Fitday), of which I absorb maybe ... 70% max? So it can't be about eating too much, and it's probably about my body going into shock after a loss of 54 pounds in three months -- but it's still exasperating. Some folks in one of my DS groups advise eating a Krispy Kreme donut (because of the high fat: we DSers absorb only 20% of fats, and the rest travels right through us), but since I have successfully severed my relationship with refined carbs thus far, I don't want to do that. I may have to choose some other high-fat route to get things moving again, however.

(Of course, today is St. Patrick's Day. You'd think perhaps a fatty piece of corned beef might do the trick, but at only 3 months out, I can't quite face all that pink meat!)

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