CRETE - A Year in Review

I have a good friend who went the lap band route. You're required to attend weekly meetings for x amount of time in order to have the surgery. Usually 90% just quit coming to the meetings. It's a drastic step and just knowing someone with one could change your ways.

Thanks for sharing all this Joe. I'm 36 and pretty much eat anything available. Only managed to gain 20 pounds over the last decade of driving. But I do tend to get tired easier than I used to and I know I'm running on borrowed time. Reading stories like yours and actually seeing people daily that just don't give a hoot really has me thinking ahead. Best of luck with everything.

 

That's pretty good! I have put on nearly 60 in the two and a half years I have been back in the states...haha I'm fatty fatty 2X4.

 

Gonna drop around 07:00 tomorrow morning in Dallas and then head to Wilmer and check in with the shop. I need my initial A-service on this new truck. Any chance they'd get to it and done by 06:00 Tuesday? That is all the truck needs.

 

I guess it had to happen. Left my enforcer lock on a trailer I dropped at a Walmart. Bobtailed back from the truckstop 10 miles away and got it before they had moved it. Whewww

 

I'm always worried about that. haven't done it yet, but it's a matter of time.

 

I had to go back to Dwight and Church there in MO the next day. Luckily they hadn't gotten to my dropped trlr yet. The lady was really nice at the gate and let me in.

 

A friend of my wife went the gastric bypass route (where the literally bypass your stomache). The 1st 6 week-2 months all she could eat was a small jar of baby food, and 1 at a time. She has lost a ton of weight, but I think the band procedure would have been better...I couldn't imagine eating like she had to do.

 

I've done it 3 times, and all 3 times I didn't have your luck, so I'm on my 4th lock.

 

I'm doing the weight-loss thing too, necessitated by a bad A1C reading the end of July. I've cut my bread in half (no more sandwiches on bread in the evening...lettuce leaves instead), do not eat red meat on the road (and seldom at home), and just cutting the amount of food I stuff into my face. I also totally cut out my traditional afternoon snack, which was something sweet. It's amazing how the threat of diabetes can change your behavior. I've been trying to lose weight for years, but this hit me upside the head with a force I hadn't experienced. I'm down from 270 to 237 with the goal of 175. Trying to walk more, too.

After a hometime week, I tallied 3316 last week. This week doesn't appear to be as promising, but it's still early. My truck may be needing a DPF service too. Had to do a parked regen for the first time ever in this truck this morning.

 

SSB, my sister and mom both had the by-pass. It's not really that bad as far as how much you can eat. My bro-N-law eats about the same portions as my sister and he's always been slim. Some people just eat like that normally.

48Packard, man that's an awesome job! Keep up the good work. A friend of mine had the sleeve because his doctor gave him an ultimatum; lose weight or you'll be dead way before your time. It woke him up.


Well my surgery is tomorrow. One protein drink today and then only water For the next week after surgery is clear liquids only. Then I get to add creamy soups to my diet....yummmm