Don’t worry, I haven’t fallen off the wagon again. I’ve simply been busy these last few (okay, I suppose six weeks is more than a few!) weeks. I did attend my first individual session on March 17th. I also completed my exercise evaluation, but due to a scheduling mix-up that wasn’t completed until April 16th. I also made it to my second individual session, which was on April 17th.
So, where am I now? Well, I weighed 329.2 lbs. at the first individual session. At the second session, I weighed just two pounds less, but that’s not totally accurate. I was about to start my period, and had gained about six pounds worth of water weight. To date I have lost approximately 12.2 lbs… and that’s in less than a month! Today I weigh 317 lbs., and while that’s a long way away from my goal weight of 180 lbs., it’s still great progress. And, it’s three pounds away from my surgery-required 5% weight loss.
My third individual session is on May 21st. I am also going to be attending an insurance-required group therapy type session that evening. Once those two things are out of the way, all that remains is to complete the last three “group” sessions, and then hopefully schedule my surgery for late August or early September!
As far as what I am doing to lose the weight, the answer is, not much! That’s not to say I’m sitting around and doing nothing. I’m not — I’m incorporating 30-45 minutes of walking twice a week, and I’m doing little things like parking farther away in parking lots, making multiple, inefficient trips around the grocery store and retail stores. But the big thing is watching my calories and my fat grams. I have been restricted to 2000 calories per day, and no more than 3 grams of fat per every 100 calories, as well as no more than 1 gram of saturated fat per every 100 calories. It’s a pain to sit there and calculate fat and sat. fat grams, but it’s obviously working, because the pounds I need to shed are coming off slowly but surely.
Anyway, that’s about all for now… tonight I’m meeting a friend at a gym. I’m equally anticipating it and dreading it. I’m looking forward to hopping on a treadmill and hopefully knocking out a few miles worth of walking while listening to my iPod. But at the same time, I dread the embarrassment and shame I’m going to feel when I have to walk by all of the skinny and average sized people. 
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