So yesterday, I drank half as much liquid as I should. I got completely distracted yesterday morning, working from home. Managed to delete one of my configuration file for a webserver. My attempt at reconstructing it wasn't successful. It wasn't until yesterday evening that I realized that the file have irregular spelling. After I fixed that, the webserver came up normally. That sort of things tends to take your mind off things. The UPS for my sandbox died a horrible and noisy death on Thursday. I already bought the replacement unit. Unfortunately, circuit on the UPS overloaded, and it just plain refused to go silently into recycling. My brother have to open it, disconnect the battery so the rest of us can sleep in quiet.
Yesterday is also Blizzcon, and for a change, they're holding it on the weekend. I naturally didn't go. But I did order the online viewing, mainly for the pet.
I think it's due to the lack of water I drink, but I'm feeling constipated again. Today, I'm bringing 2 bottle water of Crystal Light to Rose Hills and the Lunch. Hopefully by the time I come home, the cleaning pad will be ready for me to finish the house work.
124/91/64 271.4lb 98 mg/DL
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Day 74 - Coffee
So the increase in water intake does a number on my weight. I'm no longer constipated, and I actually loose a whole tons of weight. I actually managed to finish the whole grill chicken sandwich for lunch yesterday (over ate again) san the bread. But the pasta salad, I was able to process without issue. And to finish up the steak I bought a couple of weeks back, I had one for dinner yesterday with half of a brown onion.
Not sure if I mentioned before in this blog that I like drinking coffee. I don't do recreational drug. I don't smoke. I don't drink alcohol. The things I indulge in life are food and coffee. With the WLS, food isn't a crutch I used to reward myself or to calm myself down. I literally don't have the stomach for it. Coffee is another matter. I haven't had coffee since 2 days prior to surgery. Unlike other people in my office who also drink coffee regimentally, I don't get withdraw headache. But seeing how for the past 4 years, I've been roasting my own coffee bean, gone through 2 automatically espresso machines, 2 coffee bean roaster, not drinking coffee is hard. I spend a lot of money building up the my gears, and it's currently sitting fallow. Well, the roaster is currently fallow, my brother is using the espresso machine. Other than the cake, I have been able to tolerate everything that I've tried (pasta salad, green onion pancake). Perhaps I should talk to my nutritionist about allowing coffee.
On the other news, I learn from yesterday that President Obama will be coming to Los Angeles. Not only to go to the Coliseum, but to Glendale. As it turns out, he'll be across the street from my office. Needless to say, I work from home to avoid the traffic problem.
120/80/64 271lb 100 mg/DL
Not sure if I mentioned before in this blog that I like drinking coffee. I don't do recreational drug. I don't smoke. I don't drink alcohol. The things I indulge in life are food and coffee. With the WLS, food isn't a crutch I used to reward myself or to calm myself down. I literally don't have the stomach for it. Coffee is another matter. I haven't had coffee since 2 days prior to surgery. Unlike other people in my office who also drink coffee regimentally, I don't get withdraw headache. But seeing how for the past 4 years, I've been roasting my own coffee bean, gone through 2 automatically espresso machines, 2 coffee bean roaster, not drinking coffee is hard. I spend a lot of money building up the my gears, and it's currently sitting fallow. Well, the roaster is currently fallow, my brother is using the espresso machine. Other than the cake, I have been able to tolerate everything that I've tried (pasta salad, green onion pancake). Perhaps I should talk to my nutritionist about allowing coffee.
On the other news, I learn from yesterday that President Obama will be coming to Los Angeles. Not only to go to the Coliseum, but to Glendale. As it turns out, he'll be across the street from my office. Needless to say, I work from home to avoid the traffic problem.
120/80/64 271lb 100 mg/DL
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Day 73 - Drinking Water
So yesterday with aid of Crystal Light, I went ahead and drink 4 liter of water. Having the sport bottle to measure and remind you to drink helps a great deal.
113/84/81 272.2lb 96 mg/DL
113/84/81 272.2lb 96 mg/DL
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Day 72 - Plateau
So, my weight have been in a holding position since Sunday. 3 days of approximately no changes.
On hydration front, I went ahead and bought a pallet of Arrowhead 1 pint bottle water. Of which, I've used exactly 1. The bottle is of size that's sufficiently close to what Crystal Light want to use (16.9oz). It also works much better than the 12oz variety that my brother bought with a cap that can be operated single handed. Thus far, I drink the bottle, rinse it, and refilled it with either the office bottle water or home filter/boiled water. I'm supposed to drink 4 of these bottles a day. Something I found amazing.
Another sign of weight loss is the relationship between my abdomen and other objects. Back in my full weight days, I hate getting seated in a booth. The table will inevitably hit my lower body, and I felt trapped. Sitting in booth isn't as much of a problem as it used to be. Likewise, the relationship between that part of my body and the steering wheel. I've already set my seat as far back as it will go, and yet, my tummy is always in danger of hitting the wheel. I have now at least 6 inches of clearance.
134/93/71 274.6lb 95 mg/DL
On hydration front, I went ahead and bought a pallet of Arrowhead 1 pint bottle water. Of which, I've used exactly 1. The bottle is of size that's sufficiently close to what Crystal Light want to use (16.9oz). It also works much better than the 12oz variety that my brother bought with a cap that can be operated single handed. Thus far, I drink the bottle, rinse it, and refilled it with either the office bottle water or home filter/boiled water. I'm supposed to drink 4 of these bottles a day. Something I found amazing.
Another sign of weight loss is the relationship between my abdomen and other objects. Back in my full weight days, I hate getting seated in a booth. The table will inevitably hit my lower body, and I felt trapped. Sitting in booth isn't as much of a problem as it used to be. Likewise, the relationship between that part of my body and the steering wheel. I've already set my seat as far back as it will go, and yet, my tummy is always in danger of hitting the wheel. I have now at least 6 inches of clearance.
134/93/71 274.6lb 95 mg/DL
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Day 71 - Kindle
So the Kindle I bought on Saturday arrived yesterday. I bought all of Charles Stross Laundry series from Amazon. I've already bought all of those books once, I just want to have it in Kindle format as well. Haven't got too much of a test drive other than charging it and putting the leather cover on it.
122/95/80 274.8lb 100 mg/DL
122/95/80 274.8lb 100 mg/DL
Monday, October 18, 2010
Day 70 - Death of PuG Raid
As expected, with Patch 4.0.1, World of Warcraft Pick Up Group Raid (PuG Raid) died a whimpering death. Now that the raid lock id are shared between 10 and 25, 10 man raid PuG are almost completely dead, and the call for 25 also lessened with the Expansion 7 weeks away. Still, I managed to get on my Warlock and got through the usual 4/12 boss killed in Icecrown Citadel. Managed to upgrade my chest piece to iLevel 264 (though the Armory isn't updating at all since the patch). It's sad that my newest character, the Warlock has outgeared my 2nd level 80 on both of her specs.
So this is the start of Week 11. I've been back at work for about 4 weeks. I've also been wearing new shoes for 4 weeks. I don't like shopping for clothing. I like shopping for shoes even less. About 7 years ago, I discovered ECCO Track II Low and these have been what I wear outside of my house every day. I'm currently on my 4th pair of this shoes, and they do last far longer than the other shoes I've wear. 3 years ago, I went ahead and bought 2 pairs, thinking of switching between the pairs. That didn't panned out. With the surgery and the weight loss, I decided to go ahead and retired my old pair to treadmill use and break in the new ones. It usually takes me about a month to get used to the new shoe. I'm not sure if my weight loss or the fact that I loosely threaded the laces, I haven't had any issue with them since week 1.
Speaking of treadmill, when I started to walk again, I set the pace to 2.5 miles a hour, and 15 minutes. That comes out to about 0.625 mile of walking each day. Within the last 2 weeks, I ramp up the pace a bit, and the last 2 days, my pace has been 3 miles a hour. This is the pace I used to run before my weight went above 300lb. Giving how little time I have in the morning, I think I might want to do the same after work as well.
110/77/71 275lb 97 mg/DL
So this is the start of Week 11. I've been back at work for about 4 weeks. I've also been wearing new shoes for 4 weeks. I don't like shopping for clothing. I like shopping for shoes even less. About 7 years ago, I discovered ECCO Track II Low and these have been what I wear outside of my house every day. I'm currently on my 4th pair of this shoes, and they do last far longer than the other shoes I've wear. 3 years ago, I went ahead and bought 2 pairs, thinking of switching between the pairs. That didn't panned out. With the surgery and the weight loss, I decided to go ahead and retired my old pair to treadmill use and break in the new ones. It usually takes me about a month to get used to the new shoe. I'm not sure if my weight loss or the fact that I loosely threaded the laces, I haven't had any issue with them since week 1.
Speaking of treadmill, when I started to walk again, I set the pace to 2.5 miles a hour, and 15 minutes. That comes out to about 0.625 mile of walking each day. Within the last 2 weeks, I ramp up the pace a bit, and the last 2 days, my pace has been 3 miles a hour. This is the pace I used to run before my weight went above 300lb. Giving how little time I have in the morning, I think I might want to do the same after work as well.
110/77/71 275lb 97 mg/DL
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Day 69 - End of Week 10
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After the plateau that was last week, this week, my weight lost continue at a familiar pace this week. I now weight 53.6lb less than 2 days prior to surgery (when my log starts) and 80.6lb off from my highest recorded weight (I'm positive I used to weight more than 355lb, but that's just how much I have weighted). The weight loss surgical program have repeatedly told us that the first six months after surgery is the golden months of weight loss. I might as well make most of it.
We got another toaster oven (personally, I thought they bought one that's a bit too big) from Costco, and I tried the green onion pancake again, this time to good result. The pancake wasn't overtly toasted, and it's actually moist and soft. I did managed to burnt one of my finger...
On Warcraft news, I managed to add a small widget to the template, so now all of the link object from WoW Head will have floating picture showing the actual item.
119/85/96 274.4lb 99 mg/dl
Week to Week 5.2lb
Total Weight Loss: 53.6lb
Body Mass Index 39.37
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