Mar 22 2012
Post Surgery - day 6 managing weight gain
Well day 6 has been pretty uneventful. I have some tingling around my incision point which tells me things are starting to heal on the outside but overall no pain to speak of.
I decided if I don’t reduce my caloric intake though, I am going to have some serious weight gain by the time this journey is over. I took a look at two meal replacement shakes; Almased Synergy vs. Spiru-tein. Both have pros and cons to them with Almased its the cost. If you don’t buy online your going pay $37.99 per 17.6 oz can. Each can gives you about 5 servings not a huge bang for your buck. Almased makes up for it with their results with the average weight loss being 10-15 over a 30 day period. Don’t quote me on that do your own research but even GNC said they can’t keep it on the shelf and that’s at 37.99 price. Crazy people would pay that price!! Spiru-tein isn’t much better of a product but the cost is lower. Spiru-tein also isn’t for diabetics because it has fruit in it which can cause a blood sugar spike. Also both can cause issues like high blood pressure if your on certain medications, so again do your homework. In the end I went with Almased mainly because I am hypoglycemic and I can get it online for 20 dollars a can. Spirutein averages 8grams of sugar per serving and thats way too much for me especially if I am using it three times a day for the first week. You figure your going mix fruit, ice, non-fat milk or yogurt in to make a shake so keeping the sugar down is kinda important.
In order to not lose too much muscle mass I figure I will do a 30 minute upper body weight workout daily. My goal is to get back in the water once my walking boot goes on with either kayaking or paddle boarding. It may help with my cardio training.
If anyone out there is managing to stay in shape during this period of time or has some health /fitness ideas please pass them on.
All the best, PJ
Here’s my thoughts on this topic, circa 6 months ago:
achillesblog.com/ryanb/2011/09/27/73/
I was unable to pull up and read your blog from 6 months ago thru the link you provided. PJ
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I too am worried about weight gain as I go through this process. I started taking Visalus protein shakes for breakfast and lunch one week ago and I have lost 4 lbs.! My goal was just to maintain my weight so I am very excited to have lost 4lbs. You can order their shakes online. I pay $90 a month for 60 shakes.
Hey thanks for your comment! Do you add anything to your shakes?
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Yes. Sorry should have been more specific. It’s a shake mix that you order. They call it sweet cream flavor. It smells like cake batter. You can mix it with milk, juice, fruit, yogurt, etc. Some of my favorite recipies are Orange Julius (4 oz skim milk, 4oz low Cal OJ, 1 cup sliced peaches, the mix, and 4 ice cubes), blackberry pie(8 oz skim, 1/3 cup blackberries, 1 tsp vanilla extract, ice cubes). The mix also also comes with flavor packets if you don’t want to folllow a recipe, ( chocolate, strawberry, peach,orange, and banana). Just throw the mix in with milk add a frozen fruit and a flavor. They really are good.
Oh, and the mix has less than one gram of sugar per serving.