So why
\nam I putting myself through this anyway?<\/p>\n
Well, the past few years have been a bit difficult for my physically, but I hit the wall last fall. I gained 20 pounds from August to October. When none of my clothing fit, I realized I need to do something.<\/p>\n
The first thing I did was find clothing that fit. It helped a bit.<\/p>\n
The second thing I did was to find someone locally who could help me with the weight. I looked into TLC-Edge because they had both a medical program and a surgical program. I didn’t even walk into this thinking — oh, I’m going to do to surgery.<\/p>\n
In fact, I’ve been violently opposed to gastric surgery for a long time. I really felt, and I do feel that now, is that surgery is for the last resort.<\/p>\n
So I sat down with a nutritionist and came up with a plan. The good news, I stopped gaining weight, but couldn’t lose. That went on for several months, we’d come up with a plan and I wouldn’t lose weight. About three months after that, I decided that I needed to go for the lap band.<\/p>\n
That’s what I’ve been working towards for the past few months. Sadly, I’d found that the only way I can lose weight now is through liquid diet, and I am hoping that will change with the Lapband. My biggest problems are portion control and stress eating, and I’m working hard on both. I’m hoping that Lapband will make the portion control much easier.<\/p>\n
And my goal — is to be able to have fun at dog agility trials again. <\/p>\n
Working out is still difficult, stairs are still difficult, but then I’ve only lost a few pounds.<\/p>\n
Good news, less than 3 1\/2 days to go.
So why am I putting myself through this anyway? Well, the past few years have been a bit difficult for my physically, but I hit the wall last fall. I gained 20 pounds from August to October. When none of my clothing fit, I realized I need to do something. The first thing I did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}