A revisit and musings

http://runkeeper.com/user/xianoth/activity/117714982

Revisited the walk to and from the grocery store today. Found out that it was a very possible walk for me. The runkeeper link for today only shows from the Store back to home. Sadly the going "to" trip got cancelled somehow and so blah.

It seems that walking and kettle bell lifting cannot be done on the same day. Or if it is, walking first then kettle bell. Otherwise my muscles are all fatigued out.  The only muscle that was giving me problems today was my right shin to calf muscle. I need to get new walking shoes as the ones I currently have are broken in too much now. The right foot on the right side of the shoe has no support anymore, my gait slides my foot to the right as impact and slides my foot off the sole of the shoe, the overcompensation is whats causing the muscles to get angry. It wasn't til the end of the return trip that I started going into muscle failure on my lower back and legs, which was about a half block from the house. Stamina is still something that I am working on.

I was forwarded a few inspirational stories today.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/21/i-lost-weight-jerome-biggars_n_1818760.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/22/suzi-walthall-i-lost-weight_n_1618833.html

Both speak of how long the actual weight loss took based on personal experiences and life choices. My only concern is that both of them had to go through a skin removal operation due to the excessive skin that was left over from the weight loss. Now I have been told that if the weight comes off gradually over a long period of time, your skin will adapt and shrink with you. The reasons that these people had to go through the surgery was due to the speed of which they lost the weight, one of which was through a Doctor monitored diet. My concern is that I will eventually need said surgery myself. I find a lot of these articles flippant when they state that they went through a medical procedure, where the fact of the matter is that the procedure for skin removal is considered a cosmetic surgery and is not covered under health insurance, not that I currently have any.  My father went through a liquid diet that was Doctor monitored and he lost a bunch of weigh and had the excess skin but could not get it removed because they could not find a place that would do it under the insurance due to it being considered a cosmetic surgery. I feel that if my Dad had been able to get the surgery done, he would have kept the weight off, as it was I feel that the excess skin was a hard reminder of what was and was tantamount to making him binge eat again. I don't want to get caught in that trap.

If I end up losing the weight and getting healthy, I am hoping that the skin will get healthy right along with me. Otherwise there will be some sort of silly fund raiser to try and gather the money required for the procedure. I find it difficult that a skin removal operation is considered as frivolous as a face lift when in reality it is removing the physical and psychological monkey from a person who has known nothing else than being fat equates to being ugly and unacceptable to society.