I wasnt expecting any major discomfort. Boy was I wrong...The major mistake we made was that we travelled from Tennessee to Tampa to have this done. My wife still works for Tampa General Hospital so her insurance made the surgery basically free at that hospital. The mistake we made was to travel back to Tennessee the day after the surgery. We landed in Knoxville and made it to the car. Once I hit the seat my abdominals started to spasm/cramp ,one feeding off of the next. I literally thought my incisions were gonna split open and spill my guts out. I was thinking it wouldnt stop until I either passed out or died right there. Ive never felt something so painful... I was finally able to slow my breathing and get my abdominals to relax after a few minutes.
You think youre tough until you abdominals start convulsing with fresh incisions in them. That brought me down quite a few notches.. We should have waiting a couple more days to travel back...
Hope you get well soon.
Anyway, I have a gym member but never step into the gym for the past 4 years or so...Lol, the gym must love me. Literally donation to them.
I have decided to cut the gym membership because it was near my workplace & I could go there after work. But since I started working from home, it doesn't make sense to waste 30min travel to another town for the gym, when I can get a gym it nearer to my home.
Anyway, sidetrack. At start of the year, I have the resolution to lose weight, like 75% of people....but I decide I will do that by monitor my intake. They key is to keep it simple without confusing & complicate calorie counting. The idea is if something is too complicated & chore, you will resist doing.
So I use a simple relative scale. 2 points for a portion meal (e.g pasta with coffee), I will add or subtract based on that. A extra dessert will add like 0.3
The idea is to have 5.5 score or lower a day on average (in a week).
Why it works (for me), is that its easy to monitor how much you eat, it makes me more conscious of eating too much, as it add to the score, & it allows me to compensate with less intake the next days.
I also control they type of food. Less process, FAR fewer takeaways & eat out. less carbs, more fruits & veg.
I have done this religiously for one month, & I am seeing results.
Another thing that help me, is to turn something you want to do regularly into a habit, a drill, like they said in the army. By drill, it means to keep doing something until it comes naturally, & you do not have to think, you just do it. Like waking up & going to work at 8.00 am every workday (you do not ask, should I go to work, you just do it). For me, & I guess most people, this isn't hard, as we learned from young (going to school), & there are real consequences for not doing so.
The hard ones for me, are the volunteering ones, like working out, even harder is to maintain. But if I made it like working or going to school, it's much easier. Don't ask, just do it.
Different people have different ways to motivate themselves. I can say this helps me.