kingkeld's Journal, 22 March 2012

I slept great! This morning, I feel really good, and I feel that I'm ready to take on the day. It's a good thing, because today is a LONG day, for several reasons:

1. I'm going in an hour early, to prepare for meetings today. I have my first day with interviews this week, and I've got three of them! That's fine though, I've had a couple of good days where I have situated myself to be a little more prepared on things.

2. I have tomorrow off, and so does Wife. She works in the same building as I do - and for her to have the day off, she wants to do tomorrow's work today, lat. That's fine, and I will just stay after work and wait for her. So today will be something like a 12 hour work day for me. I'm gonna me mush by the end of the day, I think. I can do it though, and it will do wonders for my comp time later on. :)

Last night I was so sleepy, I felt like I was a cast member of The Walking Dead. :) It was good though, and I slept like a rock all night. I feel refueled this morning, and I'm good to go.

Wife and I had our usual breakfast, and a good chat. I love our mornings.

I did gain 400 grams back since yesterday, but that's okay. I lost 1600 grams the day before, and this is just the usual fluctuation game. It's still a lot more fun when the number goes DOWN than when it goes up, though. I'm used to it, but it STILL gets to me. It's weird, how it affects me.

I gotta say, I'm really looking forward to April 2nd, to get the FINAL FINAL FINAL weigh-in and hopefully reach my goal, and then be done with chasing 77 kgs.

After the surgery I expect to be several kgs lighter, and I hope I will be able to maintain this new low afterwards. I should be. It will be easier to exercise, and easier to move around in general. Losing a few kgs on that account is of course in a sense "cheating", but it should help me stay within the "normal" weight range from there and on. It does annoy me a little that I am more often above 77 kgs (the limit for normal BMI for me) than I am under. I want to be under, just by a little, and it doesn't happen too often.

I, of course, understand that the excess skin weighs quite a bit, and this is one of the things that are holding me back. There simply isn't a whole lot of fat to lose. My smart smart scale can't even measure it unless I weigh in on a day where I am SUPER low, dehydrated and all. A normal weigh-in like today and yesterday (where I was pretty low) will give me an "out of bounds" error when it tries to measure fat percentage.

So these days I mostly stick to measuring my weight, and not my body fat. It's rare that I get those extra numbers, but when I do I usually get a fat percentage of 5 or 6. Super low.

I wonder how that number looks after the skin removal? Will that make me gain in fat percentage, or lose? Will it give me more accurate numbers, or is it gonna be even more out of whack? Only time will tell.

I finally found that documentary "The Real Skinny", which deals with the surgery that I'm getting (hopefully). I started watching it, but stopped fairly quickly. The first being, that it's simply too freaky to see what they're gonna do. I stopped when I saw a surgeon with a huge piece of bloody meat. It looked like something from a Saw movie. One thing is a good horror movie, another is knowing that they're gonna cut a chunk out of me and SEEING IT! LOL. Yes, I admit it. I'm a wimp. I'll probably watch it later, after the fact.

Today I am thankful for:
- Sleep, sleep, sleep. All night. Loved it!
- Having had three interview free days to catch up.
- Friday off! No band practice, but a fun day instead. More on that tomorrow, I think.
- Kitty cat. She's so cute.

Have a great Thursday, my friends. I hope it's not as long a work day for you as it will be for me.

Life is good!

173.9 lb Lost so far: 167.8 lb.    Still to go: 0 lb.    Diet followed 100%.

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1911 kcal

Fat: 67.08g | Prot: 85.23g | Carb: 233.57g.   Breakfast: Rye Bread, Sliced Ham (Extra Lean), Egg. Lunch: Beef Steak, Mixed Vegetables (Solids and Liquids, Canned). Dinner: Lettuce Salad with Assorted Vegetables, Chicken (Skin Not Eaten). Snacks/Other: hard candy, Sweet or Dark Chocolate, Sour Cream, Apple Pie, Irish Coffee, Plums, cookie, banana, Apples, Guldbarre. more...

3018 kcal

Activities & Exercise: Desk Work - 2 hours, Sitting - 3 hours and 40 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours, Walking (moderate) - 3/mph - 20 minutes, Standing - 10 hours. more...