Exercise... the gym and hitting a nerve

[Guest guest]

Greetings:

I do enjoy the off-list messages from the gals and guys from Graduates. I think

I may have been mis-read or read on a particularly bad day for one of our

lurking members who had quite a few things to say about why she didn't feel it

necessary to exercise after having gone through the WLS. To quote: " surgery and

a small stomach is torture enough; I don't need to hear about YOUR need to

exercise. Not all of us have to do anything more than lose it. "

First....I look forward to your emails in about another 12 months to see if you

have the same opinion about exercise.

Second....gadzooks, I'm only trying to pass along some enthusiasm and a thought

or two about what is working for me. My surgery was in 1998 and I'm not cured

by any stretch of the imagination...I'll be trying to watch my intake as well as

caloric output...forever. I'm just a couple hundred reasons ahead of the same

thing 10 years ago but without a goal in sight. I've hit my goal...or close

enough to almost taste it. Without WLS and exercise, I'd still be chugging down

OptiFast mixes five times a day and hoping to get to goal.

I do need to exercise....probably most of us will need to build up to continue

losing or maintaining. But that's not the whole tale...I need to exercise

because I have a tendency to fall prey to apathy and despondency. It's that

extra rush of heated blood, oxygen and muscle/glucose absorption that keeps me

on even keel most of the time. My despondency comes on from

tinnitus....something that is a constant in my life now and something that I

can't control or regulate. It causes me to stay up late and get up too early

and no matter how I may fall into a sleep, there's a part of my brain that

always stays awake with the noise of tinnitus going 24/7. It comes and goes; as

long as I stay consistent...I don't go where I don't need to go to dwell.

But that's a personal issue....but it seems to be something a lot of folks deal

with in this transient period within the first 24 months post op. Without that

positive outlook of value derived from exercise...you can lose sight of your

goal and fall prey to bad habits that face each of us. You may think you don't

need to work out because you've " suffered enough " ....well, let me tell you what

torture will be if you choose to allow yourself to fail this surgical

intervention. There's only one person that will fail if you fail....life will

be pretty miserable if you miss this opportunity.

On the high side...exercise does marverlous things for you from the inside out.

Muscle definition and cuts will innure you to your significant bothers and

friends; stamina in anything will increase; your ability to haul your butt up a

hill will surprise you no end...things you couldn't do will just be a breeze and

that cumulation of accomplisments will benefit your physical and morale

conditions. You'll find yourself very regular even after eating all the wrong

food (and like Forrest Gump, " that's all I have to say about that. " ) by just

exercising and moving fluids out of latent muscle tissue back towards the gut.

I found another phenomenom about exercising. On the days that I don't

exercise, I find myself eating most anything that falls in front of me. On the

days that I do exercise, I have a craving for just protein sources...no carbs or

fats allowed....just meat or eggs. It's self preservation, but it feels the

need and requirements of repairing torn muscle tissues and replenishing what's

been leached during the exercise. The kidneys get a work out and the sweat

glands purge themselves each time.

How could you NOT feel better? Again, I look forward to getting an email from

you in a year or so as to your results from a dormant, sedentary weight loss

program via WLS. The surgery makes it a breeze to get there...but, there's an

effort to lose large amounts of weight in a shortened period of time and once

you're there....if you exercised to get there, then maintenance will simply

emulate your healthy lifestyle.

Again, I appreciate the private emails...although frowned upon by the MODs for

this site...the good ones and the harsh ones. It's a source of information that

we can all subscribe to. I apologize for upsetting you with my tales, stories

and goofy humor....it's something I enjoy and try to share if it can provide a

benefit.

I'm sure you enjoyed hammering me and if you derived a benefit from doing

so....I enjoyed working with you to that end.

Please....next time you feel like sending me a private mail, please go down to

the local dollar store; buy a kite...fly same.

Dan

rny10.13.98

EdWaits,MD-Atlanta

[Guest guest]

Greetings:

I do enjoy the off-list messages from the gals and guys from Graduates. I think

I may have been mis-read or read on a particularly bad day for one of our

lurking members who had quite a few things to say about why she didn't feel it

necessary to exercise after having gone through the WLS. To quote: " surgery and

a small stomach is torture enough; I don't need to hear about YOUR need to

exercise. Not all of us have to do anything more than lose it. "

First....I look forward to your emails in about another 12 months to see if you

have the same opinion about exercise.

Second....gadzooks, I'm only trying to pass along some enthusiasm and a thought

or two about what is working for me. My surgery was in 1998 and I'm not cured

by any stretch of the imagination...I'll be trying to watch my intake as well as

caloric output...forever. I'm just a couple hundred reasons ahead of the same

thing 10 years ago but without a goal in sight. I've hit my goal...or close

enough to almost taste it. Without WLS and exercise, I'd still be chugging down

OptiFast mixes five times a day and hoping to get to goal.

I do need to exercise....probably most of us will need to build up to continue

losing or maintaining. But that's not the whole tale...I need to exercise

because I have a tendency to fall prey to apathy and despondency. It's that

extra rush of heated blood, oxygen and muscle/glucose absorption that keeps me

on even keel most of the time. My despondency comes on from

tinnitus....something that is a constant in my life now and something that I

can't control or regulate. It causes me to stay up late and get up too early

and no matter how I may fall into a sleep, there's a part of my brain that

always stays awake with the noise of tinnitus going 24/7. It comes and goes; as

long as I stay consistent...I don't go where I don't need to go to dwell.

But that's a personal issue....but it seems to be something a lot of folks deal

with in this transient period within the first 24 months post op. Without that

positive outlook of value derived from exercise...you can lose sight of your

goal and fall prey to bad habits that face each of us. You may think you don't

need to work out because you've " suffered enough " ....well, let me tell you what

torture will be if you choose to allow yourself to fail this surgical

intervention. There's only one person that will fail if you fail....life will

be pretty miserable if you miss this opportunity.

On the high side...exercise does marverlous things for you from the inside out.

Muscle definition and cuts will innure you to your significant bothers and

friends; stamina in anything will increase; your ability to haul your butt up a

hill will surprise you no end...things you couldn't do will just be a breeze and

that cumulation of accomplisments will benefit your physical and morale

conditions. You'll find yourself very regular even after eating all the wrong

food (and like Forrest Gump, " that's all I have to say about that. " ) by just

exercising and moving fluids out of latent muscle tissue back towards the gut.

I found another phenomenom about exercising. On the days that I don't

exercise, I find myself eating most anything that falls in front of me. On the

days that I do exercise, I have a craving for just protein sources...no carbs or

fats allowed....just meat or eggs. It's self preservation, but it feels the

need and requirements of repairing torn muscle tissues and replenishing what's

been leached during the exercise. The kidneys get a work out and the sweat

glands purge themselves each time.

How could you NOT feel better? Again, I look forward to getting an email from

you in a year or so as to your results from a dormant, sedentary weight loss

program via WLS. The surgery makes it a breeze to get there...but, there's an

effort to lose large amounts of weight in a shortened period of time and once

you're there....if you exercised to get there, then maintenance will simply

emulate your healthy lifestyle.

Again, I appreciate the private emails...although frowned upon by the MODs for

this site...the good ones and the harsh ones. It's a source of information that

we can all subscribe to. I apologize for upsetting you with my tales, stories

and goofy humor....it's something I enjoy and try to share if it can provide a

benefit.

I'm sure you enjoyed hammering me and if you derived a benefit from doing

so....I enjoyed working with you to that end.

Please....next time you feel like sending me a private mail, please go down to

the local dollar store; buy a kite...fly same.

Dan

rny10.13.98

EdWaits,MD-Atlanta