Day 729 - End of Month 24

Two years.  That's how long it has been since my surgery.  Of course, 2 years ago, the weather around Los Angeles wasn't nearly as hot, and I weight twice as much as I do now.  Here's hoping for me staying the course.

117/75/60 169.4lb 99 mg/DL

Day 698 - End of Month 23

One week from now, I'll be having my annual physical examination, and of course, that means I need to get my blood drawn.  Doing this usually messed up my morning routine.  What I didn't realized is that it also kind of messed up my afternoon routine as I completely forgot to bring my gym clothing to gym, thus cut short my workout today.  I cannot make it up tomorrow, since I have support meeting to attend to.

Today is also the 23 months since my surgery.  Nothing much to report, other than I'm still fairly stable.

111/67/45 170.4lb 95 mg/DL

Month to Month -4.8lb

Day 668 - End of Month 22

It's been a while since I remember to mark the passing of months on this blog.  Sorry for being complacent.  It's now been 22 months since my operation that changed my life.  For the past six to seven months, my weight have remain stable.  For a change, I don't feel like hitting a stall, but at a natural weight.  I still have a good chunk of excess skin below my belly and some around various part of my body.  That part can wait.

I work from home yesterday in an attempt to get some more sleep and not fighting traffic.  I was able to get plenty of things done.  Since I had a working session starting at 6PM, I decided to go to the gym early and get that workout done before committing myself to the long and very boring call.

While on the elliptical machine, I first set for a 20 minutes cardio workout.  After 5 minutes, I thought better of it and decided to just do my usual 15 minutes.  Still a good workout, but I'm not quit ready to ramp up just yet.

112/78/56 165.2lb 87 mg/DL

Day 638 - 21 Months Out

Sorry for yet another late post.

Today marks my 21th month since surgery.  Not too much to reports in regards to anything.  Finished the root canal procedure that was started last week.  Also while chewing gum, one of my other tooth's crown pop loose, so I also got that one glued back.  Busy week ahead still.

125/74/47 173.8lb 87 mg/DL

Day 517 - End of Month 17

Not a good month in terms of weigh loss.  I gain 2.4lb compared to a months ago, just prior to the onslaught of the holiday meals.  Now is not the time for me to fall off the wagon, but to get recommitted to the program.

Here's a video that I saw over the weekend.  Surprising thing is that I'm already doing this:

102/66/53 169lb 82 mg/DL
Month to Month -2.4lb

Day 487 - Start of Vacation

Not quite, but getting close.  I have a couple of things to finish and then I'm off to Rose Hills and the start of my vacation.

Also, today is the 16th months after surgery.  Kind of odd that I issed this date.

104/64/58 166.2lb 81 mg/DL

Day 457 - Rogue in Grizzly Hills

After I got my rogue to level 74, it's time to leave Dragonwaste and hop over to Grizzly Hills to continue my progression. Due to the time limit, I didn't get that far. Hopefully I'll get the next level by the end of today.

Hum, today is also the 15th Month since surgery.

113/74/74 172.2lb 76 mg/DL

Day 426 - End of Week 61 and Fourteenth Month

08-07-2010 Front

08-07-2010 Side

10-09-2011 Front

10-09-2011 Side

This is both the end of Week 61 and the 14th month.  For the most part, my weight hoovers between 182 and 180.  I've had episodes of these stalls for me to be unconcern by it.  With the exception of the last 4 days, I've been at a fairly stable weight.  These past 4 days however, do see a dramatic drop in weight.  I am drinking un-caffeinated drinks at an elevated pace.  I've also switch over to using the new shoes, which does seem to help.  Perhaps I should wear that shoe full time?

111/71/50 175.8lb 94 mg/DL
Month 14 5.6lb
Week to Week 4.0lb

Day 396 - Further Ramping Up of Exercise

After writing up last night's post, I decided to follow through with the increase pace up to 4 MPH.  I actually did a bit more than 45 minutes (almost 46 minutes) and while my knees held up, I did feel mild soreness and numbness with my right hip joint.  I'll see how that helds up tomorrow.

124/80/66 181.4lb 93 mg/DL
Month 13 6.4lb

Day 365 - One Year Ago Today

I have my surgery one year ago at about 7AM PDT.  Hard to believe, this is what I looked like that Monday afternoon, about 5 hours after the surgery:

August 09 2010 4:22 PM

This is what I look like this morning:

August 09 2011 7:08AM

Even though 140lb loss is encouraging, this past month hasn't been as well as I can hope for.  The number either moved in the wrong direction or it barely moved at all.  I'll have more to say later.

112/69/45 187.8lb 90 mg/DL
Month 12 0.8lb

Day 334 - Eleven Months Out

Only one more month to go until my first anniversary of the surgery.  Surprisingly enough, I did better than last month.  However, loosing 14.4lb next month is asking a bit much at this stretch of the game.  Well, back to work on this lovely Saturday.

110/73/67 188.4lb 87 mg/DL
Month 11 10.4lb

Day 304 - Ten Months Out

Today is the 10th month since my surgery.  As expected, the month to month weight reduction has further slowed, 6.2lb this month.  I'm still about 30 pounds to my goal weight.  I still need to get on with some weight training to start building more muscle.

The thigh muscle pain that I mentioned yesterday is not getting better or worse.  Perhaps I should add heat/cold treatment to the mix tonight.

113/76/56 198.8lb 99 mg/DL
Month 10 6.2lb

Day 273 - Jadefang Companion Pets

Yesterday just before going to sleep, I finished off all of my level 85 character's collection of Tiny Shale Spider companion pet.  The rare spawn Jadefang is on a long timer (about 8 hours), and the only way to get to the niche he resides in is via a quest Underground Economy in which you can get the bomb that can place you there.  Now, hunter also want this green Shale Spider to fill the niche of the party that does not have paladin or druid.  And it looks good.  In all, I killed Jadefang 7 times for the Tiny Shale Spider and tame it once for my hunter.  The very first time I encounter him is with my hunter Kycilia while trying to find and tame it:

Kycilia with Jadefang as combat pet

At that time, I haven't had the foresight to get all of my level 85 characters to get the quest (the quest isn't available daily, just some of the days), so the very next time I encounter it, only Kycilia has the bomb.  So I made the best use of the situation and got Kycilia her rare companion pet:

Jadefang with Tiny Shale Spider

After the next time in which the quest became available, I got all but my death knight the quest with bomb and prepare to get everyone her companion pet.  Paladin Dianora is the first one up:

Dianora with Tiny Shale Spider

Mage Nodame is next:

Nodame with Tiny Shale Spider

Warlock Kasukabe got it back in May 1 2011:

Kasukabe with Tiny Shale Spider

Shadow Priest Fidie also got it later that day:

Fidie with Tiny Shale Spider

When I realized that my Death Knight Ogiue didn't have the quest, I waited until it's available, and she's the next one to get the pet:

Ogiue with Tiny Shale Spider

Finally yesterday before going to sleep, my boomkin druid Lonchaneyjr got hers:

Lonchaneyjr with Tiny Shale Spider

In all, it's an round of interesting game of stalking and waiting.  Now that's over, I can stop parking my hunter there, and she can participate in more useful activities.

Just did a modification of this post.  This is actually the 9th after the surgery, rather than yesterday.

115/73/77 205lb 92 mg/DL
Month 09 4.6lb

Day 243 - 8 Months Out

It's 8 months since my surgery.  The stalls from the last 2 weeks seemed to have ended.  At least I think I'm heading towards the right direction.  I lost only 7 pounds this months.  I should be grateful that I'm still loosing pounds and not gaining.  Onelander is almost in sight and I want to get there.

114/78/67 209.6lb 95 mg/DL
Month 08 7lb

Day 212 - Ghostcrawler - Seven Months out

Slight addendum:  This post was started last night prior to me going to sleep to put in the Warcraft related material.  After I got into the office, I realized that this is the seventh month out for me since surgery.  Total weight loss this month is 10.4 pounds, a bit low in terms of my monthly average, but still better than my worst month (December to January 8.4 pounds).  I'm just glad that the weight loss has started again.

So after a long drive back home from the support meeting, I decided to run at least 1 daily heroic on my hunter and then hunt for the other Cataclysm Spirit Beast, Ghostcrawler named after the online handle used by the lead designer of World of Warcraft.  After I finished up the Therazane daily quests, I ported over to Vashj'ir to start my camping of Ghostcrawler.  After I got through my daily heroic dungeon (Stonecore where my ghost wolf died after every single boss fight), I logged out and removed the creature cache and try to scan for the creature again.  Lo and behold on my first pass, the object of my desire appears.  Now, as a added benefit and joke, freezing trap does not work on this creature.  It has 1.5 million health and it's basically unkillable due to the signature spell Nerfbat that's cast continuously and will render attackers unable to attack.  Naturally once you tamed the creature, this overpowering spell goes away.

Well, here's the Spirit Beast Ghostcrawler alongside a Worgen Kycilia in Abyssal Depths:

And here's what Karoma with a Worgen Kycilia in Twilight Highland looks like:

Breakfast: Protein Latte (326 calorie, 34.6g protein)
Morning Snack: Cheese Snack (80 calorie, 5g protein)
Lunch: Healthy Choice (260 calorie, 15g protein)
Afternoon Snack: Cheese Snack (80 calorie, 5g protein)
Dinner: Pork Chop (328 calories, 53g protein), Egg Drop Soup (39 calories, 4g protein)
Soy Juice (100 calories, )

119/75/64 216.6lb 91 mg/DL

Month 07 10.4lb

Day 184 - Six Months Out - 100 Pounds Down - Pneumonia

08-07-2010 Front

08-07-2010 Side

02-09-2011 Front

02-09-2011 Side

Today by coincident is both my sixth month anniversary and a surgical follow up appointment. I don't think my vitamin test will be ready for this afternoon's check up.

Another milestone reach. I'm 227 pound as of weighting this morning. That's 101 pounds lower than the first entry on my online spreadsheet of statistics.

And as a follow up to yesterday's post, I know something was up when my primary physician ask me to repeatly cough as she does her comparison of my left and right lung function.  After that, she had the assistant write up an order for me to go down stair to the radiology clinics and get chest x-ray taken.  Waited 10 minutes, and got my chest zapped aft and side view.  Not that anything actually shows up on the image (digitized image will be evaluated by radiologist), but she's treating it as if I have Community-acquired Pneumonia.    I'm current on a 5 day course of anti-biotic treatment, and have another follow up with her next week. 

129/87/60 227lb 93 mg/DL
Month 06 14.4lb
Milestone 100lb

Day 153 - End of Week 22 / Month 05

08-07-2010 Front

08-07-2010 Side

01-09-2011 Front

01-09-2011 Side

Not exactly my finest week.  I did myself no favor by eating beef noodles and heavy dinner yesterday.  Gain 1.2 pound compare to the previous week's weight in, my first week to week gain.

Amended post, this is also the end of the 5th month out from surgery.  Month to month weight loss is down to 8.4 pound, mainly doe to the terrible week this past week.  Lets see how the next week pans out.

117/76/80 241.4lb 103 mg/DL
Week to Week -1.2lb
Month 05 8.4lb
Total Weight Loss 86.6lb
Body Mass Index 34.63

Day 122 - Fourth Months Since Surgery

Today is the fourth months since my surgery.  The weight loss is slowing as I would expected.  But I'm happy about my progress.  My main character is currently at level 84, one more level to go.  Unfortunately, Twilight Highland starting quest Aiming High! is bugged, so I guess I'll be spending some time doing Deep Holmes quest to gain reputation for the shoulder enchant.

119/78/63 249.8lb 96 mg/DL
Month 04 14.4lb

Day 92 - 11/12 Hard Mode Done

After a long long day (woke up at 4, drive 90 minutes to off site meeting, standing in the cold wind for 40 minutes, drive back that took 2 hours), I realized that I was not in any condition to do my 25 minutes of walk yesterday.  Well, no point in crying over spill milk.

Yesterday, we took our latest shot at Heroic Sindragosa.  It was a long and hard fight.  But with enough people finally listening to the instruction (stop casting when you're about to blow up on everyone around), we finally got her down.  We're now 11/12 hard mode boss down for the expansion (kind of odd that we're still chasing these 4 weeks before the next expansion), but good for the guild none the less.  We got 2 shots in at heroic Lich King and his 105 million health.  After trying to call it a night on normal Lich King, we have 1 spot open, and sold the 25 man achievement for 2k gold for the guild bank.

136/90/85 264lb 98 mg/DL
Month 03 15.4lb

Day 61 - Almost There (Warcraft Achievement)

So we band together for another alt run at ICC10.  My remaining level 80 Kasukabe finally got a couple of cracks at Lich King encounter.  However, by the time we got to him, it's 1 AM already, and people clearly are not awake.  Lets hope we can finish him so I can collect the Kingslayer title.

I swear, if my head isn't attached to my body, I'd loose it as well.  Lost the vendor promo water bottle at car dealership getting my car serviced.  Well, time to go back to the oversize bottle that doesn't fit my car.

124/89/65 279.6lb 103 mg/DL
Month 02 16.2