20190122 I had my 6 month WLS follow up appointment with my surgery care team.
20190129 I had my 6 month WLS follow up and annual physical appointment with my primary.
My appointment with the care team went pretty much like this.
"You are doing great. I got nothing for you. Got anything for me?"
Other than what looks to be genetic based, higher than normal but not bad triglycerides, low HDL, and borderline anemic, EVERY result was normal.
In fact, my A1c was only 4.6, which is on the lower end for a non-diabetic.
I did get some questions answered.
I can go to all regular pills and don't need to do chewables for vitamins or vitamin C.
I can have gummies but probably will give me gas.
I can have alcohol but it will most likely affect me much more than it used to so need to be careful.
I will get re-evaluated for my CPap after the 1 year mark.
I am doing well with my diet and at this point, no need to worry about calorie intake.
They really want me to make it to the support meeting on the 4th Tue of the month.
Especially next month since it will be focusing on physical fitness.
The big news from my appointments:
Currently I am disconnected from my insulin pump & not taking insulin.
The doctor said that with me taking so little basal, I should give it a try.
So, I called Medtronic and found out how to set it so it isn't worried about the cartridge and is just managing the CGM.
I will still take the victoza to help my body use the current insulin my body is making more effectively.
If this works, that means I will be OFF my insulin pump and down to just 3 meds.
I won't ever come off the testosterone.
Due to genetics, it looks like I might not come off of the pravistatin (are at least not for a long time).
Victoza is what will help me get done with my insulin and I will take it for at least a while.
I might come off it closer to my 1 year mark but not sure, it just depends on how things go.
My last weigh in had me at 245.4 which makes me down 129.5 pounds.
I am down to 23.5% body fat and I will be concentrating on that now verusus my weight.
My next major goal is to get under 20% body fat.
A super big NSV (non-scale victory) was that I had to go shopping for pants.
When I started this process, I was using size 5X BDU pants which are roughly equivalent to size 56.
I took some 44s, 42s, & 40s in to the fitting room to try.
I figured the 44s might be too big so I started with the 40s.
They FRAK'n fit.
A bit snug but I could get them on, sit down in them, and they weren't too tight.
This is a comparison of the pants I was wearing before and the ones I just bought.
After my last blog about workouts, I have talked to a couple people, done some research and developed a plan.
Lifting will start with 3 sets of 8 reps at 50% of my max lift.
I will increase the weight every 2 weeks until I get to 70% then add 1 rep per week until I get to 12.
Then I will drop back to 8 reps at 50% and go to 4 sets.
Repeat until I am up to 5 sets of 12 at 70% of my max (3 months).
At that point, I will do a full re-evaluation of my max lift. and restart the process with that weight.
Monday will be a 1 to 1.5 mile warm up walk followed by upper body lifting.
Tuesday will be a 1 to 1.5 mile warm up walk followed by lower body work.
Wednesday will be a 2 mile recovery walk.
Thursday will be a 1 to 1.5 mile warm up walk followed by upper body lifting.
Friday will be a 1 to 1.5 mile warm up walk followed by lower body work.
Saturday will be a 2 mile recovery walk.
Sunday will be a 2 mile recovery walk.
At some point, I plan on changing up and working on incorporating jogging into this process.
Once I start that, I will set some goals and see if I can do a 5k for speed.
I will decide on a time goal once I start that portion of my training.
So far, thru 20190130 I have 79.62 workout miles and 128 daily miles.
Most of the workout miles were with a ruck.
I will get back to that after this week of recovery.
In fact, starting Friday I have to in order to do the GoRuck February challenge which is to ruck at least 1 mile a day every day for the month.
The Ruck.Beer challenge is 83 flights of stairs for the 83 firefighters lost last year.
I don't have good access to stairs for working out in so I am going to do 8.3 miles on 8.3% incline instead.
Added more to my events this year so definitely will be busy but I am excited.
The only one that "scares" me is the GoRuck Light in July.
That will be 1 year after my surgery and 3 years after I got my butt handed to me in my first one.
I will let the cadre know about potential health issues but hope to not have any real issues by then.
2019 Fitness Goals
1000 Daily Miles (Includes all mileage walking & workouts)
128 Daily Miles YTD
- I will be logging this on Charity Challenge with my team as:
YIAAGAITIA
500 Fitness Miles (Workouts and events)
80 Fitness Miles YTD
- I will be logging this on Charity Challenge with my team as:
BuddyCheck22k
1000 Daily Miles (Includes all mileage walking & workouts)
128 Daily Miles YTD
- I will be logging this on Charity Challenge with my team as:
YIAAGAITIA
500 Fitness Miles (Workouts and events)
80 Fitness Miles YTD
- I will be logging this on Charity Challenge with my team as:
BuddyCheck22k
My Athletic Events for 2019
| Event | Dates | DONE |
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