New blog...

Hey everyone - Joelle has decided to use a new blogging site... Please go to the following link and sign up there, hopefully it will work better : jglenteague.wordpress.com

Hello again everyone, sorry for not updating the past couple of weeks, but was trying to put some background music to the blog to play as you read but had some friends look at it and found out you need a license to do that... so anyway, here I am at 8 weeks or 7 weeks on the plan and the nurses and everyone are amazed at my progress. I continue to astound my counselor and myself. My counselor told me at the start that 100 pounds by Christmas was almost improbable. Well, that was her 1st mistake. Don't tell me I can't do something cause I'll prove ya wrong just to say Ha Ha I did it. But anyway, she retracted her statement this past Friday and said 100 pounds was very feasible by Christmas. I had to drill 2-3 more holes in my belt today that were about an inch apart. Also, for church, I wore a pair of jeans that were 4 sizes smaller (the secretary says 2 because they are in increments of 2) than what I wore to church on labor day weekend. All my shirts are hanging longer on me and I keep telling Joelle that she must be extending them. There is still one shirt that I bought last year that I have a little more to go and when I do I'm gonna be so happy. All in all, everything is going okay. Friday while getting everything ready to go hunting on Saturday, I had some dizziness and when joelle got home I told her about it. I couldn't decide if it was my blood pressure bottoming out or my blood sugar so she got the glucose meter from her pregnancy and checked my sugar. It was 74 which she said was low so she called Dottie (my counselor and our friend) and she agreed that it was low but not dangerously low. She told me to eat a piece of peppermint. What you need to understand is that I hand't really eaten anything but lunch and it was only steak & chicken fajitas without the tortillas and all the fixings. I guess that about covers it for now... Oh, by the way - I'm down 58 pounds since labor day weekend - that only leaves 43 more to go till Christmas and that will be Goal #1 done. As always, thanks for your prayers and support... Love, Glen

October 7, 2012

Well it's been another 2 weeks since my last update and everything is fine. I went back for my regular appt on friday and had lost 4.5 pounds for the week. Of that, 8 pounds was fat, but my fluid level increased which balanced out the weight loss to 4.5 pounds. Don't ask me how or why it works like that, but it does. The counselors say it's normal for those levels to fluctuate the way that they are. They are very pleased with my progress thus far. I also joined Bodyplex this past week and plan on going 3-4 times per week as long as my truck gets fixed and stays that way. I was out with my hunting buddy yesterday getting ready for gun season and he said that I was gonna need some new clothes, I told him I was trying to wait until Christmas and when I reach my first goal of 100 pounds then we would look at clothes but I want to try to make do until then. So, in closing, here are the weight loss totals to date : -42.5 pounds in 5 weeks 57.5 pounds to lose before Christmas. As always, thanks for all of your support and keep praying. I'M SEXY AND I KNOW IT..... Glen

Weeks 3 and 4I

Wellll, here we are in week 4 already, sorry for not updating last week but my secretary is falling down on the job - it's hard to find good help!  Anyway, all is good and every day is getting a little easier.  After week 2, I got knocked back down to 600-700 calories in protein a day with either 2 cups raw or 1 cup cooked (which if you think about it is about the same) of veggies twice a day.  I can also swap out a fruit serving for a veggie serving if i want to.  This program really seems to be working so far. Monday I plan on going back to the gym around 3-4 times a week to help expedite things a little bit. Although the drs and nurses haven't put a deadline on me, I have set a personal goal of getting down to my goal weight by Labor Day weekend of 2013 which would be a year.  Let me put it into perspective for you - 213 pounds in a year breaks down into 17.75 pounds per month or 4.1 pounds per week.  So far I'm down 30 pounds in 3 weeks which is a 10 pound average so as of right now I am ahead of the curve.  But, I know it will get tougher as time goes on.  I have already noticed that this 30 pounds has already made a difference - my feet don't hurt when I get home and I seem to have better mobility already.  Well that about wraps it up for this week.. Thanks for the support and keep praying for me.  I know that I can do this if I just stay focused and continue to have the support from my family and friends.

God Bless - 
Glen

OH YEAH, I'M BRINGING SEXY BACK

From the secretary - 
He didn't know the purpose at the time, but here is his "before" picture :

Week 2

Well, week one is over and I have to admit it was tough.  When you go from eating any and everything you want to being limited to eat only 650-700 calories per day, I tell you it was tough.  The first 3 days were the roughest and by Sunday I was ready to pull my hair out.  But, once the meds got into my system, it really wasn't all that bad.  I didn't really feel hungry, but my eyes and mind were playing games with me.  My mind was telling me that I should be eating even though my body wasn't hungry.  When I did eat, my eyes were telling my mind that I should be eating a whole lot more.  All in all, it was a pretty good week.  I have to make weekly visits for the first little bit, and I went back today.  They will weigh me and go over everything to see where I might be struggling or need some help.  But today, that wasn't the case. Much to my surprise, the nurse's surprise, and even the dr was amazed at the scale.  By the way, the dr was also very surprised at my bloodwork results.  It was hard for him to believe that a person my size had the good numbers that I did.  Anyway, back to the weight - in my first week, I lost 19 pounds.  Dr. Kehl also told me that if I follow the program to a T, he wouldn't be surprised if I didn't lose double digits for the next few weeks.  So until next week, ya'll keep praying and I'll report back next week...

Glen

The time has come

Well, I went for my first dr visit today...  my initial thought is I AM HUNGRY .  They drew blood, did an ekg (that was abnormal, who would have thought - tried to tell them i didn't have a heart).  I am only allowed to consume 500-700 calories per day which can only be made up of protein for the first week.  This will throw my body into ketosis, meaning it will use the stored fat (and boy is there a lot of it) to burn for energy first.  I thought I took a lot of medicine before, little did i know I would be able to run my own drugstore :

These are my new daily medications in addition to the ones that I already have, plus I need to add a fiber supplement since I can't have salad.  They also told Joelle that by about Wednesday I will be both grumpy and tired - bet you can't imagine that either.  They went to stick me with the needle today and I had to turn away... the nurse got a real kick out of that.  The good news is that if I follow this exactly as they are telling me too, I could lose 100 pounds by Christmas.  I haven't been that size in over 10 years so it's kind of exciting to think about.  I will have to go every week for a while and they will closely monitor my weight, body mass index, and total water weight in my body.  Right now, 44% of my total weight is water which is atleast twice as much as it should be.  The more fluids I drink, the more fluids will be flushed from my system - i can't imagine what losing all that will feel like.  So, I'm off to a good start...  I ask for your prayers in my perseverance and prayers for my family in putting up with me....  this will not be a race, it will be a journey.  213 pounds to go to reach my goal weight....

One week away.....

I'm really kind of excited about all this - I'm looking foward to the future and being skinny and small... maybe even wear a speedo to the beach :-)  Seriously, I have reached a point in my life where I'm tired of being overweight and nothing else has worked, so I'm going to try Medi Thin weight loss.  For those of you who don't know what that is, it is physician supervised weight loss.  I will be going to the same dr who delivered Lainey and Kaitlyn - who would have thought?  He thinks I might be pregnant... LOL!!!!  He said all this could be baby fat.  (for those who know glen so well, you know these are his words...I am just being his secretary - joelle)  I really don't know what to say - this was all my wife's idea.  Guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.