i work in surgery and back in april i took a contract at a hospital. my weight when i started was 270. 270 is pretty heavy but im 6ft 1 so i didnt look like your typical 300 pounder. i worked there for a couple of weeks and i didnt fit in well with the staff. i noticed there were a select few that didnt like me, and they were talking bad about me behind my back. they gave people nicknames, and they thought it would be appropriate to give me the nickname doughboy i didnt care for the name. i had later found out that the nursing director had underwent gastric bypass, and only lost 100lbs in a whole year!!!!………thats just sad. he was one of the people i didnt get along with. there was an anesthesia nurse that had been dieting for about 6 months and he openly would tell people he lost 80 lbs. which isnt too bad. but one day he reprimanded me for something…………that made me pretty much hate the guy. overall, the majority of the staff and i didnt get along for some reason.

you see, in surgery emotions and egos are blown way out of wack and there is way too much drama going on. doctors and nurse anesthetists pretty much think they are better than anyone they come in contact with.

anyways, i felt like i could stand to lose a couple of pounds. so i tried the atkins diet.

my first day i was ridiculed for even trying this diet, but ive seen this diet work for some so i stuck with it.

after a week had passed, 5 pounds came off!! people had their 2 cents, theyd say haha no bread again huh? theyd say oh that cant be healthy, eatin’ all that meat at the end of this week, i got a gym membership.

week 2 i was at about 264lbs. on monday i started my exercise regimen. i started using the eliptical machine for an hour, and weight trained for an hour a day. i saw the anesthesia nurse at the gym from time to time. i also could feel my food cravings back off a little.

week 3 i weighed in at 261, not a huge loss but still progress. people still gave me their 2 cents about my diet, even the cafeteria lady started calling me the meat guy
she’d say hey all this guy eats is meat…haha it started to really piss me off. i decided to step it up a little in the gym this week. i wanted to drop at least 5 pounds. i rode the ski machine for 2 hours and did my regular weight training. that nurse saw me ride the machine for 2 hours, and said hey you better take it easy inside i was thinking youd better shut the hell up in spite of what he said i exercised 4 hours on saturday and sunday.

week 4 i weighed in at 252!! 9 pounds HAHA. some people started to notice i was losing but it was still hard to tell with my scrubs and all. this week i decided i was getting tired of peoples’ comments about me being on the atkins diet. i decided to reduce my portion sizes and exercise more. i rode the ski machine along with my weight training for total of 4 hours monday thru saturday. i took sunday off. i ate only 3 cans of tuna and 1 cup of lettuce a day. the whole time im thinking ro myself doughboy huh? i was starting to make these people eat their words. i figured all this exercise, id lose another 10 lbs easily.

well i weighed in at 239. i lost 13lbs last week!! by now my boss and a lot of other people started to notice. i had to wear smaller scrubs now. people would ask me what i was doing to lose weight. one time the guy who had the bypass(my boss)was in the breakroom and he said wow are you eating?…..howd you lose all that weight?and i said yeah im eating, but all you have to do to lose weight, is burn off more calories than you take in!! i said it real sarcastic, haha. he walked off somewhere. i decided i wanted to lose so much weight so fast it would just be sickening. i kept with my diet and excercise regimen.

week 6 i lost another ten pounds!! by this time none of my clothes were fitting. at 229 i didnt look fat any more. haha, people were starting to talk alot less, 50lbs lost in just over a month, i wonder why. it was like 20 questions at lunchtime. i started to eat a little more since i figured 50lbs was a little extreme. so they all scrutinized my plate to see what was on it every day. it got pretty annoying so i started eating alone. one day someone decided to congradulate the anesthesia nurse on his progress in front of me, i just laughed and walked off.

some of the women staff were getting pretty emotional when they saw me. they werent use to seeing me this thin. they were probably thinking how does this fatass drop 50lbs in a month when ive been struggling with my weight for years? so i figured it would be good to make them sickly jealous and lose another 20 lbs. i was thinkingi want these women to be so jealous, they wont be able to stand the sight of me

by week 9 i was well under 200. this was the thinnest id been since high school. im 30 now. by this time you couldnt deny that i completely transformed my body shape in a little over 2 months. no one was saying **** about the atkins diet!! even the guy that had the bypass was on it!! one day i went to set up instruments for a knee replacement surgery and the girl that wasnt fond of the atkins diet was there. she was in the operating room for a minute or two. and then she just started crying and ran out of the room after i said hi to her………hahah!!! man i made her really eat her words didnt i?

hahaha!!

during this time i realized im one sick mofo!!

more than half my motivation to lose weight was to make my co workers feel terrible, and it made me feel really good.

well ive managed to keep the weight off, but the holidays are coming up so i might put on a few pounds………but at least i KNOW how i can get the weight off!!

haha

Do not eat over 2000 calories. Make your calories count. 2000 is a lot believe it or not. I kept my food intake as fat free as possible. And here is the kicker for true success…get a diet journal and write what you eat down. You’ll be amazed of how easy it is.

Staple foods with this plan is a lot of chicken breast. Vegetables in the frozen section have a lot to offer that are very low calorie. Snack items…sugar free jello gelatin, sugar free jello pudding. Fresh fruit. 100 calorie snack packs make it easy to keep track.

I lost 21lbs my first month by doing the above and I did not exercise at all. Your weight loss does slow down after this initial period so incorporating some sort of physical activity is essential if you really want to kick it up a notch.

Hang in there and don’t give up. Good luck

You can realistically lose 40 pounds by Feb, if you not only watch what you eat but you add in daily exercise.

Diet
Rely mainly on fruits, veggies, non-fat dairy ( like non-fat yogurt and skim milk) 100% whole grains breads, cereals and pasta and lean meat.

A sample day would be
Breakfast plain oatmeal and a glass of skim milk
snack non-fat yogurt or fruit or low fat cheese

Lunch – sandwich on 100% whole grain bread or 100% whole grain pita with lettuce, tomatoes, and lean meat along with a small salad

snack- fruit or a few amount of nuts

Dinner – large salad, veggies, lean meat and juice or milk with dinner

snack–low fat cheese, fruit, fat free ice cream, low fat or air popped pop corn.

Simple foods yet if you get what ever fruit or meat is on sale during that week you will not only save money but you will continually eat different foods so that you won’t get bored.

For exercise invest a few dollar for hand weights or resistance bands so that you can weight train for about 20 minutes a day. Weight training will burn a lot of calories and since you are strengthening muscles your muscles will burn more calories during the day as it replaces fat.

You can also do about 10 minutes of targeted training as in squats, or chair squats ( I like these better and they are easier), about 25 push-aways, 25-50 of the bicycle, 25 reverse crunches and 25 side leg lifts.

The more exercise that you can add in the less your body will be saggy from weight loss.

Remember to take each day at a time and if you blow it at one meal all is not lost, just start again with your next meal. An occasional slip up won’t hinder you much, but if you give up it will. Just keep looking towards your goal and let your clothes, not you scale be what you judge your results with