Originally published November 29, 2008
I don’t know the last time I tried cottage cheese, before yesterday. But, it’s on the list of foods that is good to have both as part of my pre-op weight loss, and one of the first foods I can have post-op.
My aversion to it has been mostly phychological. When I was a kid, maybe 4th grade or so… we took a weekend trip down to see my mom’s friend in Albert Lea area… “Aunt Betty & Uncle Jim”. When we got back we discovered a bowl of mostly eaten cerel had been left out… and what was now left in the bowl looked like cottage cheese. After that, I couldn’t look at the stuff without that memory coming back to me.
Category : daily life
Tags: co-morbidity, cold, dumping, excess skin, hair loss, introduction, lap-band, operation, pouch, pre-op, rny
Originally published November 12, 2008
Tonight was my first meeting in awhile regarding the WLS. It was a group intro session… they had a staff person from Unity talk… and she is 7 years post-op herself. BTW, I realize these posts are getting long and maybe boring… but what do you want me to do? I’ll try to start finding some sort of inspirational or maybe at least humorous images to go along with these posts in the future.
I got there just in time for the meeting. I don’t think all the people there were possible patients… folks are encouraged to bring a support person with them. There were maybe 9-10 guys out of the over 50 there… including myself. The presenter mentioned knowing what it was like to be “here”, to be sitting in this room, all nervous. I’m not though.
The folks over at Zen Habits recently posted a pretty good article on The Simple Fitness Rules, and I thought I would make some observations on them from a WLS dude perspective.
They start out with two simple rules…
- Get your body moving on a regular basis; and
- Eat a moderate amount of real, whole foods (with occasional indulgences).
Number 1 is something as a WLS patient we’ve been hammered about since that first informational session. Just moving (something beyond our normal routine) is important. And the moderate amount of food thing, well… we’ve got a tool to help us out in that department. So it’s the expanded version of this I want to look at more.
- Get Moving
- Enjoy Yourself
- Slowly Add Intensity
- Minimal Equipment
- Just a Few Exercises
- Eat Real Foods
- Eat Less
- Give it Time
