F38, HW: 282, CW: 268, GW: 176 (and then I will reassess), H: 5'6"
Apologies in advance for the rant!!!
I re-installed a fitness app on my phone yesterday as I decided it was finally time to get serious (again) about losing weight and getting healthy. For some reason I had got it in my head that I had lost some weight in the last year, but just not nearly enough...
Wrong!
My weight this time last year, was pretty much exactly what it is now. In the last year I have gained and then lost around 14lb giving me a false sense of achievement. I have wasted yet another year!
I am an anaesthetic technician and work in a busy operating theatre. Everyday I see patients who require surgery because the lifestyle they lead has caught up to them, or, I see patients who require emergency surgery for an injury or women who require caesarean sections etc that require a much more specialist anaesthetic and surgical approach because of their co-morbidities.
I've lost count of how many limbs I have seen amputated because of uncontrolled diabetes or peripheral vascular disease.
Did you know that when you are obese and require a caesarean section to deliver your baby, there is a special sticky dressing that is used to pull all of your fat up and and out of the way? And even then, it's still a much more technically difficult and dangerous surgery.
Anaesthetising and intubating obese patients is much more difficult and dangerous than the average sized person. Obese people are likely to drop their oxygen levels much more and much faster and their airways are more likely to collapse leaving them at risk of an hypoxic brain injury.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
After taking some time to reflect and really get honest with myself, I realised I am no better than many of my patients; in fact I am probably much worse off than most of them as despite having all of this knowledge I have continued to eat poorly and live a sedentary lifestyle... :(
Anyway, I am so glad I have found this group. I have been browsing through and there are many inspiring messages.
This is an accountability post of sorts for myself. Starting from the 1st May I am going to get real about my health by:
- eating low carb, healthy fat
- alternate day fasting
- walking at least 10,000 steps a day
- resistance training at the gym at least 3 times a week
As well as improving my overall health, I hope to be able to get healthy enough to have a successful IVF round next year.
If you have read this far, thank you for listening to me rant! I hope I haven't offended anyone. I just wanted to give myself a big reality check.
I look forward to watching everyone's weightloss journeys. And I hope that in a years time I will be posting a success story of my own!
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from loseit - Lose the Fat https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/n1m3a1/can_i_change_my_life_in_a_year/
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