I started this blog to chronicle a new adventure I've started on. I recently went to have the Lap Band procedure performed on my rather robust body, because I'm fat and needed to not only lose weight but keep it off as well.
The losing part is easy... all diets work. Keeping it off is the challenge.
Well, when they cut me open to install this dietary assistant, the surgeon took one look at my liver and said, "no freakin way" Ok... I was out and didn't really hear anything, but in essence, that was the final outcome.
The "no freakin way" happened because in order to install the lap band, they had to move my liver out of the way. Afterwards, the surgeon said my liver didn't look all that good, so he did a liver biopsy and closed me up. No Lap Band.
My memory is rather questionable these days, so if some of this sounds redundant, please forgive me...
I recently went through 48 months of non-nuclear chemo therapy for HCV (Hepatitis C Virus). It ended last March or April. Hep C plays hell on your liver.
Ok.. enough history.
Before the Lap Band procedure, I had to go on a liquid diet for several weeks to reduce my weight prior to surgery.
After the surgery, had it been successful, I would have stayed on a liquid diet for several weeks and then slowly re-introduced solid foods back into my diet.
Well, since the procedure was a bust, my only option was to continue on some kind of diet, and lose weight.
When i started the pre-surgery diet, my weight was 325lbs. I am now at a solid 280 lbs and this weekend, I actually broke the 280lbs mark for 2 days. I was down to 276lbs, however, this morning I was back up to 280lbs. This is a good thing, because now my weight, hopefully will fluctuate between 275lbs and 280lbs, making my average weight around 277lbs. This is a major milestone for me.
So anyway, this blog is to chronicle my weigh loss adventure. Don't care if anyone reads it or not, it's here just to follow where I'm going, and where I've been.
I'm going to try to find a weight tracker of sorts to put in the side bar.
This will also keep me honest and hopefully strident in my continuing effort to shed that extra person I'm carrying around.
