Greetings friends, new and old. I have been out of touch for a while but I am back and here is a nice long post to communicate some of what kept me away and most importantly how I have overcome and returned to the right path for my journey.
The troubles for me began with week 4 which for me is a tale of 2 weeks, because after my first attempt did not go so well I decided to repeat it .
Basically here is how the first week 4 went bad for me. I went to have my meeting with my new consultant and the meeting was to take place at 10:40 am. I was told to bring the print out from my arm band reports. So that morning I was trying to get the computer to print out the report, but for what ever reason it was not working. The paper kept coming out blank, and finally I just gave up and decided to bring my laptop with me so I could show my consultant in person. But by the time I got to the centre, it was 11 am. And on Tuesdays, the centre closes at 11 am until noon because they have a “staff meeting” which is code for receiving their new inventory and needing to file all of it in the back room so they can sell food and other stuff. So I needed to get my food but the place was closed, thus I ended up waiting in my truck for an hour. Later when the centre opened, I went in but then I ended up waiting about 40 minutes before I could see anyone, and not the consultant that I was assigned to. Instead I ended up meeting with this other lady, and she was nice and all but she was also not exactly “behind me” in a sense, she didn’t really do anything to pump me up for the week and when I showed her the report from the arm band she blew it off like she didn’t need it. So now I’m getting mixed signals, I’ve been waiting for two hours, actually it was about 1:30 before I did get out of there with my new meals; and anyway long story short I was feeling very frustrated by the time I left from there.
I headed for home, and put everything away, but then the next day came a big hit that really upset me and hurt my feelings and well destroyed my mojo for a few days. Now I don’t know if you recall or not, but the centre placed me on a 3000 calorie program, and during the first two weeks of the program I would eat as much as I could from the plan and I was coming in around 2500-2600 calories (if I stuffed myself). But after reporting this to the centre they stressed to me that I absolutely had to eat at least 3000 calories, and maybe a little more. So now I am making an effort to meet 3000 calories, and after a week of that, the next day I got in my truck to go for my walk and my belly was rubbing against my steering wheel again! Oh it just broke my heart. So for the next two days I didn’t wear my armband, I was upset, I didn’t get my walking in, and after speaking with my parents and my girlfriend about it at length they told me to do what my doctor had told me to do which was to shoot for 2200-2400 calories a day with moderate exercise. So the first two days of week 4 were “off days” for me as I recovered from that emotional debuckle. Then I had 2 days on the 2400 calorie diet, and then I had to make a trip to my parents place and I forgot my armband and part of my food, so the last two days of the week were not what they were suppose to be.
Now we come to my return to the centre again (I went back on a Monday so that I won’t have that “we are closed” experience again and from now on I will be meeting with my consultant on Mondays regularly). So I show up early for my meeting, but my consultant is in with the person who had a meeting time slot before me. Which is fine with me, no problem right? But they wanted to send me back with that other lady again and I had to politely refuse twice; and was glad to do so in order to meet with the other consultant. Had a nice long meeting with him when I went back there with him, and told him all about everything that had been going on and confessed that I still had about half the food from the previous week left over and overall I felt good about the meeting and refocused. The best part of the meeting was that he listened to my concerns about the calorie count and they readjusted the plan to descrease some carbs and increase a bit of protein and now I am on a 2400-2700 calorie diet, so I won’t feel bad about hitting 2500 calories.
Now my second attempt at week 4 has been pretty good, but once again I have had to return to my parents house for the weekend and this time I did bring the food with me but I forgot the armband again (opps). But after this weekend I won’t have to return here again for a while; oh and the reason why I have been traveling so much back and forth is that my family dentist is in Modesto where my parents live and I have been under going the final phases of having a new crown put in my mouth. Since that is finally done (got the crown in today, now my smile is pretty once more) I will be able to settle back in for a regular routine in Fresno where I live.
So that is the basic over view of the trials and problems I have faced in trying to get week 4 down. My stomach has retracted a bit from my steering wheel again, and I hope by Monday that I’ll be back to where I was two weeks ago and resume going strong in the right direction.
Also I’ve been making arrangments to resume taking dance lessons next month so that I can have that as a source of exercise beyond the walks, so hopefully I can swing that now that the dentistry bills are done with.
I hope everyone has been doing well with their efforts and that you all have positive news to share with me and everyone else. I know I will be sharing more positive news with everyone soon enough. As for now, once more onto the breach, chin up, head high, I'm a walking man who's got a goal in mind and nothing going to stand in my way ... too many song references?
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David
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mollz23, on 09 October 2011 - 06:30 PM, said:
