Reclaiming My Body Before Brain Surgery

Reclaiming My Body Before Brain Surgery

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An overweight 49 year old woman reclaiming my body before HFS surgery 🀍✨️.

24/05/2026

Hi team, not weighed in for two weeks 🫣, we were away in Auckland for a long weekend, so eating out and lots of treats πŸ™ŒπŸ˜ came back from mini break not feeling 100% and not also not been in the right headspace either, so stopped tracking and the gym for 1 week, life happens right. Anyway weigh in day and its that time of the month tooπŸ˜‚so scale weight and body fat % is up too, no issues with that, will be back trending down again next week.

Done my gym session this morning followed by my half hour cardio and will go for a walk after work to get my 10k steps in πŸ‹πŸšΆβ€β™€οΈπŸ’“.

10/05/2026

Hi Team, scale weight not moved this week and only my waist measurement has moved but still heading in the right direction ✨

Had botox this weekend too, gives me a couple months break from the twitching and I can forget I have it for those months. I will have to see if I can have botox before surgery, a question I will need to ask the surgeon πŸ€”.

03/05/2026

I decided to revert back to the old scale as all the information is on the app, numbers for this past week are looking good and still tracking in the right direction. I stuck to the calories this past week and also no cardio, I just walked 8000 steps a day this past week. This week I will be doing half an hour cardio and 8000 steps a day plus weight lifting 3 sessions this week. πŸ‹βœ¨

29/04/2026

Hi Team, so its official I do have Hemifacial Spasm, my MRI showed a PICA vascular loop on the under surface of the facial nerve and a potential for a microvascular decompression (the surgery).

However there are no surgeons that are specialists here in Christchurch or NZ for that matter for this type of surgery, so am now looking at Japan with Dr Inoue, will just have to save up some πŸ’² first.

Will carry on with the goal of losing fat and gaining muscle and see where I am in a few months with funds πŸ’ͺ

Just another quick video of this terrible condition πŸ˜‰βœ¨

28/04/2026

Hi team, no tracking this past week, been a bit ill so not tracked food or not been to the gym, also as I was feeling better and was celebrating me turning the big 50, I was out this past weekend drinking and eating lots and had a great time, but I am back to it today.

I also bought a new smart scale its a very cheap version of a dexa scan, so will do this weekly from now on and will still measure so the data will look a little different πŸ™Œ I weighed on the new scale this morning and this is the information it throws out, got to love the health score, Physical condition is not ideal πŸ€£πŸ˜‚, well lets change that then shall we πŸ‹πŸΌβ€β™€οΈβœ¨.

19/04/2026

Hi team, well a good week last week, hit all goals with food and gym and cardio, although I did go have a few treats this weekend so all in all numbers a great. Sticking to the 1700 calories for the next few weeks. I have hit a few PB's on some lifts this last week so getting stronger and doing progressive overload, try and up weight each set and will have to start using straps soon for the heavier weights πŸ˜†.

12/04/2026

Hi Team, I fell off the wagon on this journey for a couple of weeks, only with the food though, I have still been going to the gym πŸ‹οΈβ€β™€οΈ Its true what they say, you cannot out train a bad diet πŸ˜†, anyway I am back to it. Reduced the calories to 1700 for the next 3 weeks to:-
Carbs - 191G
Fat - 57g
Protein - 106G

Hopefully numbers will be back down in a few weeks 🀞

23/03/2026

I am amazed at these numbers this week as I haven't been truly honest with the tracking and old ways creeping back in, eating more non nutritious foods and not tracking it, didn't do any exercise from Thursday till Monday 😱. Back at it properly today tracking and food planning and at the gym Monday/Wednesday and FridayπŸ™Œ.

15/03/2026

Hi Team, yay numbers down again this week, I only did cardio workouts this week had a full week rest from lifting, back to that this week though πŸ™Œ.

Just 3 weeks now until I get my results from the MRI πŸ˜€ excited will be one more step closer in getting surgery to fix.

I did get botox a few weeks back as that does help ease the twitching for me for a couple of months, but as everything its quite pricey here in NZ, so I decided to push the botox out every 4 months until I can get my surgey.✨🩷

09/03/2026

Hi Team, well I had a weekend off exercise and my food plan as was eating out most of the weekend and didn't track, and was so busy yesterday didn't get time to update the numbers, but not bad after not sticking to the plan happy with that πŸ˜„.

Also got my appointment through to see the neuro surgeon regarding my MRI thats the 7th April, so will no more soonπŸ™Œ

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