Weight Loss Vlog 6: 25 days, Bariatric Surgery, Lap Band
So the night I went into my gym and swim for a little while, not really going there for lap swimming as much as going there to get a little exercise in the pool while having some fun. I could not help but notice another guy about my size who came in. I recognized him immediately. I met him about eight months ago when I first entered the gym. I haven’t bumped into him since specifically because I took a break during the winter. For all intents and purposes, I will not say his actual name here. Let’s just say his name is GUMP
Me and GUMP talked for a while and I asked him how he’s been doing. The last time I talked to him. He told me he was interested in getting Bariatric Surgery and he’s working hard towards it. He was restricting his calories a little bit, exercising every day for 30 minutes. I asked him what kind of diet he’s performing or what diet he’s on. He said he did not really answer those questions very well.
When I saw him today I asked him how he’s doing. I asked him if he made any progress. He said that he is actually gaining weight. He’s in there every day around 6 o’clock. He’s in the pool for at least 30 minutes no matter how tired and how sick it made him. He’s doing his absolute best he could. He’s gaining on an average of 3 pounds a week. That he was now about 525 pounds. That’s very disheartening and it’s very discouraging and men! It’s frustrating to hear. I was expecting he would be down to the 450 pound weight limit his doctor wanted him before the surgery.
I would be disparaging a little bit here but it makes me wonder whether he understands what he has to do—if he is consulting a bariat4ric doctor or a nutritionist as well to educate him what to do—not to eat high-calorie food, what foods not to eat, how to track calories. That education has to be thrust on him if they have to split him open and cut on his insides.
He found a doctor who would work on him even if he is 525 pounds but he won’t get the Gastric Bypass he originally wants instead he will get the Lap Band. The reality is that the Lap Band success story is much lower than Bariatric Surgery, the danger is still there. It makes me wonder if I should be fasttracking into Bariatric Surgery. It takes $16,000 to get the Lap Band—welcome to America the fattest country in the world where we invented a surgery that will keep people from eating too much and where we put lap bands in their stomachs so we can’t hold enough food to force ourselves from eating. And choosing the surgery will cost more than the average person’s yearly income.
I don’t know if he ever does see this but if he does I want to tell him “Goodluck” and that he has a nice recovery. Hope to see him at the gym someday. I went to the grocery today and all I can do is stare at the candies. I want to rip anything there and start eating like a crazy person. I had the cravings but I did not do it part of this is because my girlfriend is with me, part of this is because I have self-discipline. I’ve done 25 days—yesterday marked the 25th day and I still have no clue if I lost weight. My broken weighing scale tells me I weigh exactly the same as two weeks ago but that’s incorrect. My weight is always fluctuated from day to day when I wake up in the morning and go to bed I weigh 3 pounds more than when I woke up and when I go to bed I weigh 3 pounds lighter. So that fluctuation is not showing in the scale. I am busted.
A friend weighs himself in a battery store so I may be paying them a visit. I sound like I put a good YouTube effort tonight.
