Category: Diet & Exercise

• Bariatric Information Diet & Exercise

  Pre-Surgery Goals

  

  One of the things that I am afraid of post-surgery is not having the habits now that I will need to implement afterwards. I know that it is nearly impossible to cut my diet down to what I will be eating-that’s the point of surgery-but what about everything else? Here…

  April 16, 2024
• Bariatric Information Diet & Exercise

  Why I Struggle With My Fitness Pal

  OK everyone. I have been working on this post since October, and I just haven’t been able to finish it. So, here I am powering through it. My Fitness Pal is constantly rated as one of the best nutrition tracker apps in the United States. With a free and premium version, users…

  February 8, 2024
• Diet & Exercise Weight Loss Surgery

  Nutrition Meeting #3

  Starting Weight: 267 lbs.Current Weight: 253.8 lbs.Total Weight Loss: 13.2 lbs.Goal Weight: 140 lbs.Pounds to go: 113.8 lbs. I had my third nutrition meeting yesterday at 11am. I actually got there early, so expected that I would get out on time. Nope. Still 1 hour. Today was the last of the nutrition information…

  January 13, 2024
• Diet & Exercise Weight Loss Surgery

  Nutrition Meeting #2

  Starting Weight: 267 lbsCurrent Weight: 261 lbsTotal Weight Loss: 6 lbsGoal Weight: 140 lbsPounds to go: 121 lbs I will not be starting every post with my weight loss statistics. That is not healthy for me mentally, and honestly, I don’t think that people really care to know that much.…

  December 11, 2023
• Diet & Exercise Weight Loss Surgery

  Handouts from the first nutrition meeting

  I do not want to comment extensively on any of this since I have yet to review most of this information with Kaitlin. I do want to share what was given to me. There was also a QR code/website attached to the folder. That is in a separate image below.

  November 9, 2023
• Diet & Exercise

  Reading Nutrition Labels

  

  In 2023, many of us see nutrition labels every single day. We find them on our cereal, bread, snacks, essentially everything in a package. But do we understand how to read them or what they mean? This is a nutrition label: You find nutrition labels on all packaged food and…

  November 7, 2023
• Diet & Exercise

  Week 1 | Days 5-7

  I’m sorry that I’m so behind in this post this week. I was really hoping that I would be able to get it done on Sunday, but that just did not happen. I am happy to say that I stuck to my goal of taking the stairs. To be honest,…

  October 24, 2023
• Diet & Exercise

  Week 1 | Days 3 & 4

  

  Thinking about it, I am definitely not going to be breaking up the week like this in the future. I think that there is not enough going on to be able to create meaningful content every single week-at least for now until I add going to the gym to my…

  October 19, 2023
• Diet & Exercise

  Week 1 | Days 1 & 2

  So I mean technically this isn’t week 1 because I had my consult a few weeks ago, but this is the week that I’m starting to really focus on my health, try to track everything, and doing what I need to do to ensure that this process is successful. I…

  October 17, 2023