Sat, Jul-19-14, 15:24
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Senior Member
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Plan: Atkins-ish, post-WLS
Stats: 408.0/288.0/168.0
BF:
Progress: 50%
Location: Southern Colorado, USA
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My plans for BFL require some rework. At the support group meeting I discussed it with the bariatric nutritionist and she said that I need to stick to the bariatric eating plan of three two-ounce meals a day and not go to six small meals. They have this big thing about avoiding "grazing" while BFL specifically recommends adopting a grazing way of eating. The BFL argument is that you need to feed your body in a more continuous manner to promote muscle healing and growth while the bariatric concern is about the ease with which grazing or eating anything between meals can lead to overeating. I tend to think that the BFL way makes sense provided you can prevent it from becoming a means to overeat, but I also recognize that the bariatric concerns are legitimate precisely because people that have had the surgery are usually compulsive overeaters. So I'm going to stick with the bariatric way and accept that my BFL progress is going to be significantly hindered. After the first 12 weeks I can see how things are going and I can always switch to more meals if it appears that I really have gotten in the habit of exercising.
This, of course, means that my fitness goals are probably very unrealistic. Instead of trying to come up with new goals for each item, I think I will just say that my goal is, for most things, to achieve half of what the original goals were. So here are the new goals: - Weight: 215 lb
- Bench press 100 lb.
- 50 leg raises, 50 sit-ups, 15 push-ups, and 10 pull-ups.
- Run three miles non-stop and 1.5 mi in under 14 minutes.
- Have Greater Wall of Stuff reduced to a single section of shelves.
- Have business website functional and available for business.
- Have Technical Library shelved, sorted, and labeled.
If I can achieve these goals (or come reasonably close), then I will have a lot more confidence to become more aggressive in the second twelve weeks and perhaps shoot for the original goals by my 50th birthday.
The end of the first 12-week program will be 12 OCT 2014 while the end of the second 12-week program will be 04 JAN 2014.
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