233.5, down from yesterday's 234.25.
I'll take it! This slope is going in the right direction! It will even out again eventually, probably soon, but this slip and slide is excellent!
Tomorrow I measure. Today I review the month.
I started on 1 April at 243.25 lb. I've lost exactly 10 lb. this month. That's exactly as it should be.
Since starting on 14 March, I've lost 22.5 lb.
I've eaten well. Lots of chicken and fish and veggies and fruits.
I've felt REALLY GOOD. Lots of energy. I still do.
I'm falling down on getting enough water into my system lately. I think I know a way around that; I'm going to try it today.
I plan (notice the word: PLAN) to go off the beaten track on Tuesday, first with my awards luncheon, though I will refuse their doubtless sugary dessert, then with a big, thick, marinated, grilled ribeye steak that evening. That's not a reward; that's a treat for my gentleman caller who likes grilled meat, and for my daughter, who needs red meat. I will be right back on the beaten track on Wednesday.
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Weighing In 4/29/2017
234.25, down from yesterday's 235.5.
Wow. 1.25 pounds. Don't ask me what happened there; I haven't a clue. But hey; I'll take it!!
Today is Housecleaning Day. My gentleman caller is coming on Monday and I want this place to sparkle when he gets here. That means I'm moving furniture around today (well, the beds don't move well, but the other furniture does).
And my Apple Watch is coming today!! I can thus track steps. I need to do that. I haven't yet gotten off my duff, and getting off my duff becomes more and more important as my hips get worse and worse. Well, I have an appointment with the doctor in May to get them re-evaluated; I will mutter "X-ray them" at him and we'll see what's actually going on. The PT helps, but it does not take the pain of moving those joints away. If I need a hip replacement, this would be a Good Year to do that.
Wow. 1.25 pounds. Don't ask me what happened there; I haven't a clue. But hey; I'll take it!!
Today is Housecleaning Day. My gentleman caller is coming on Monday and I want this place to sparkle when he gets here. That means I'm moving furniture around today (well, the beds don't move well, but the other furniture does).
And my Apple Watch is coming today!! I can thus track steps. I need to do that. I haven't yet gotten off my duff, and getting off my duff becomes more and more important as my hips get worse and worse. Well, I have an appointment with the doctor in May to get them re-evaluated; I will mutter "X-ray them" at him and we'll see what's actually going on. The PT helps, but it does not take the pain of moving those joints away. If I need a hip replacement, this would be a Good Year to do that.
Friday, April 28, 2017
Weighing In 4/28/2017
235.5, down from yesterday's 235.75.
Little bit by little bit, I'm getting to where I need to be. In another 5.75 pounds, I'll be below 230 ... I haven't weighed that little in years.
I'm feeling really quite good about myself. I am succeeding, and all this tonnage is peeling off at a healthy rate. Granted, that healthy rate is frustrating (I want it all gone NOW), but, once gone, it will stay gone. How do I know? Because, first, I'm going to sell or donate all my fat clothes, and I'm not buying more. Second, if and when the weight does begin to creep back up (as it very well may, and that's not a defeat), I will simply hit the reset button by going back on the Diet Center's reducing diet. That's easy to do. I'll give myself a 10-pound leeway; if I gain 10.25 pounds above that 139-pound goal I set, I will immediately, and I do mean IMMEDIATELY, go back on the reducing diet and get rid of it.
I can do this. I have a plan. All I need to do is stick to my plan.
All sights are set on 229.75 pounds, which is my next mini-goal weight.
Little bit by little bit, I'm getting to where I need to be. In another 5.75 pounds, I'll be below 230 ... I haven't weighed that little in years.
I'm feeling really quite good about myself. I am succeeding, and all this tonnage is peeling off at a healthy rate. Granted, that healthy rate is frustrating (I want it all gone NOW), but, once gone, it will stay gone. How do I know? Because, first, I'm going to sell or donate all my fat clothes, and I'm not buying more. Second, if and when the weight does begin to creep back up (as it very well may, and that's not a defeat), I will simply hit the reset button by going back on the Diet Center's reducing diet. That's easy to do. I'll give myself a 10-pound leeway; if I gain 10.25 pounds above that 139-pound goal I set, I will immediately, and I do mean IMMEDIATELY, go back on the reducing diet and get rid of it.
I can do this. I have a plan. All I need to do is stick to my plan.
All sights are set on 229.75 pounds, which is my next mini-goal weight.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Weighing In 4/27/2017
235.75, down from yesterday's 236.
Ah. That's better. It's too soon for another egg/grapefruit day, so I'm glad to see the 1/4 lb melt on its own.
PT today. That's good; those stretches and strengthening exercises feel much better with someone pulling on my hip. But I will indeed cut it down to 1x/week soon; at $46/session, it adds up.
And, if I let it, that would get me started on health insurance. I'm not going there.
Have a great day!
Ah. That's better. It's too soon for another egg/grapefruit day, so I'm glad to see the 1/4 lb melt on its own.
PT today. That's good; those stretches and strengthening exercises feel much better with someone pulling on my hip. But I will indeed cut it down to 1x/week soon; at $46/session, it adds up.
And, if I let it, that would get me started on health insurance. I'm not going there.
Have a great day!
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Weighing In 4/26/2017
236 with no change for the last two days.
Well, it will all fall off suddenly one day. But plateaus do test the patience of even the saintliest of humans.
Well, it will all fall off suddenly one day. But plateaus do test the patience of even the saintliest of humans.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Weighing In 4/25/2017
236, no change from yesterday.
That's no surprise. Yesterday's eating was entirely disrupted by the events in the neighborhood. While I didn't stray from eating good food, but I ate only sporadically with no semblance of a schedule. Well, it's back to the straight and narrow today!
That's no surprise. Yesterday's eating was entirely disrupted by the events in the neighborhood. While I didn't stray from eating good food, but I ate only sporadically with no semblance of a schedule. Well, it's back to the straight and narrow today!
Monday, April 24, 2017
Weighing In 4/24/2017
236, down from yesterday's 236.75.
That's 20 pounds gone!!!!!!!!!! I've ordered new hiking boots (not cross-trainers) as my reward because my gentleman caller and I are talking about doing some hiking this summer.
We had some excitement in the 'hood last night. My friend and fellow crazy-cat-lady Moira's next-door neighbor's house burned to the ground. Fire in my neighborhood is a very scary thing; we all live in wood-frame houses of the 100-year-plus vintage, so when one goes up we worry about a neighborhood-wide conflagration. Lucky for us, so does the local fire department, which acted quickly to limit the destruction. Moira's house is reasonably intact; no one (including the fire department) quite understands how that is true.
At least one person died in that fire. I didn't know that person, but am sorry she had such a horrific death. No one deserves death by fire.
I have my friend's cats until the damage to her back door is repaired. The cops kicked the door in to make sure she got out in time, which she and the cats all did (one of these kitties owes his life to the firemen and policemen who corralled and . My cats are NOT happy about this; neither are hers, but hers are at least safe and able to express their Extreme Displeasure.
That's 20 pounds gone!!!!!!!!!! I've ordered new hiking boots (not cross-trainers) as my reward because my gentleman caller and I are talking about doing some hiking this summer.
We had some excitement in the 'hood last night. My friend and fellow crazy-cat-lady Moira's next-door neighbor's house burned to the ground. Fire in my neighborhood is a very scary thing; we all live in wood-frame houses of the 100-year-plus vintage, so when one goes up we worry about a neighborhood-wide conflagration. Lucky for us, so does the local fire department, which acted quickly to limit the destruction. Moira's house is reasonably intact; no one (including the fire department) quite understands how that is true.
At least one person died in that fire. I didn't know that person, but am sorry she had such a horrific death. No one deserves death by fire.
I have my friend's cats until the damage to her back door is repaired. The cops kicked the door in to make sure she got out in time, which she and the cats all did (one of these kitties owes his life to the firemen and policemen who corralled and . My cats are NOT happy about this; neither are hers, but hers are at least safe and able to express their Extreme Displeasure.
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Weighing In 4/23/2017
236.5, down from yesterday's 236.75.
It's a gentle, gradual decline in the weight, which is exactly what it's supposed to be. It did not go on overnight; it does not come off overnight, and there is no miracle (short of massive liposuction surgery, which is NOT going to happen) that would make it come off any faster. But the 1/4-lb losses do seem tiny sometimes. Well, at least the numbers are going in the right direction. And these baby steps, taken together, make one giant leap.
It's a gentle, gradual decline in the weight, which is exactly what it's supposed to be. It did not go on overnight; it does not come off overnight, and there is no miracle (short of massive liposuction surgery, which is NOT going to happen) that would make it come off any faster. But the 1/4-lb losses do seem tiny sometimes. Well, at least the numbers are going in the right direction. And these baby steps, taken together, make one giant leap.
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Weighing In 4/22/2017
236.75, down from 237 yesterday.
0.75 lb to go before I can get my 20-lb reward of squeak-free cross-trainers! I have lost a grand sum total of 19.25 lb as of today, and that is a GREAT thing! I now have less than 100 lb to go ... but that's the big main goal, and I honestly don't think about that; I do this in mini-goals of 10 lb and the changing of the tens digit.
I have an interesting challenge coming up for the first three days of May. My gentleman caller is coming to visit and wants to take me out to eat. He has no clue of what I'm doing with the weight loss, and I'm not particularly keen on telling him that I'm not eating the way he wants to eat. He wants to go to places like the Van Dyck (where they have a salmon entree or a veggie burger that I can have, or, better, I can have a Caesar salad garnished with salmon or chicken as an entree ... just have to get it made to my dressing-on-the-side-go-very-light-on-the-parmesan specs, which most good kitchens will do) and White Castle (we don't have any White Castles around here, thank goodness; they have nothing I can eat). I'll curtail the restaurant food at lunch, though; we can eat salads here just as well as at a restaurant.
0.75 lb to go before I can get my 20-lb reward of squeak-free cross-trainers! I have lost a grand sum total of 19.25 lb as of today, and that is a GREAT thing! I now have less than 100 lb to go ... but that's the big main goal, and I honestly don't think about that; I do this in mini-goals of 10 lb and the changing of the tens digit.
I have an interesting challenge coming up for the first three days of May. My gentleman caller is coming to visit and wants to take me out to eat. He has no clue of what I'm doing with the weight loss, and I'm not particularly keen on telling him that I'm not eating the way he wants to eat. He wants to go to places like the Van Dyck (where they have a salmon entree or a veggie burger that I can have, or, better, I can have a Caesar salad garnished with salmon or chicken as an entree ... just have to get it made to my dressing-on-the-side-go-very-light-on-the-parmesan specs, which most good kitchens will do) and White Castle (we don't have any White Castles around here, thank goodness; they have nothing I can eat). I'll curtail the restaurant food at lunch, though; we can eat salads here just as well as at a restaurant.
Friday, April 21, 2017
Weighing In 4/21/2017
237, down from 237.25 yesterday.
That's 19 pounds gone since 14 March! Another pound and I get my new non-squeaking cross-trainers!!
I wore my purple suit yesterday. That one is the challenge to get into when I weigh more than 240. It's a beautiful suit, and yesterday it fit me beautifully. My husband gave it to me for Christmas one year; I shall miss the beautiful clothes he bought for me when I shrink out of them, but they are fat clothes; fat clothes will ALL GET DONATED. There will be NO fat clothes around this house anymore.
That's 19 pounds gone since 14 March! Another pound and I get my new non-squeaking cross-trainers!!
I wore my purple suit yesterday. That one is the challenge to get into when I weigh more than 240. It's a beautiful suit, and yesterday it fit me beautifully. My husband gave it to me for Christmas one year; I shall miss the beautiful clothes he bought for me when I shrink out of them, but they are fat clothes; fat clothes will ALL GET DONATED. There will be NO fat clothes around this house anymore.
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Weighing In 4/20/2017
237.25, down from yesterday's 238.
It seems to be coming off in stops and starts. I go a few days and lose little or nothing, then I drop nearly a pound. Well, if that's what my body wants to do, that's fine. As long as it's coming off, I'm happy.
I'm still feeling really good on this program. Lots of energy, lots of endorphins flowing, and a far, far better body image. I'm still larger than life (I'll provide measurements and pictures on 1 May) but I'm shrinking ... I'm shrinking!
It seems to be coming off in stops and starts. I go a few days and lose little or nothing, then I drop nearly a pound. Well, if that's what my body wants to do, that's fine. As long as it's coming off, I'm happy.
I'm still feeling really good on this program. Lots of energy, lots of endorphins flowing, and a far, far better body image. I'm still larger than life (I'll provide measurements and pictures on 1 May) but I'm shrinking ... I'm shrinking!
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Weighing In 4/19/2017
238, down from 238.25 yesterday.
Well, yesterday's egg-grapefruit day didn't knock off the multi-pounds that it often does, but at least it got things moving in the correct direction again.
Time to start walking. That will get things moving along, too, and the weather is now decent enough to walk outside. I'll need to invest in an Apple watch (for other reasons, too; I'm not spending nearly $600 just for a pedometer!) and walk every day.
Well, yesterday's egg-grapefruit day didn't knock off the multi-pounds that it often does, but at least it got things moving in the correct direction again.
Time to start walking. That will get things moving along, too, and the weather is now decent enough to walk outside. I'll need to invest in an Apple watch (for other reasons, too; I'm not spending nearly $600 just for a pedometer!) and walk every day.
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Weighing In 4/18/2017
238, up from yesterday's 237.75.
OK. Yeah, I cheated a bit yesterday; I was hungry last night so I finished off the box of Melba toast (which is salty). So today I'll do an egg/grapefruit day. Lovely. Well, that'll knock the weight loss back into gear.
Baby steps....
OK. Yeah, I cheated a bit yesterday; I was hungry last night so I finished off the box of Melba toast (which is salty). So today I'll do an egg/grapefruit day. Lovely. Well, that'll knock the weight loss back into gear.
Baby steps....
Monday, April 17, 2017
Weighing In 4/17/2017
237.75, down from yesterday's 238.
Those 1/4-lb losses look small, don't they? But they do add up. Boy, do they add up. Let's look at the progress so far.
On March 14, I started at 256. I'm now at 237.75. That's 18.25 pounds.
Last Monday, 4/10, I was at 241.25. I'm now at 237.75. That's 3.5 pounds. In a week.
When I look at it that way, it's much, MUCH more encouraging. But yes, I will continue to take the small peri-daily losses as small wins because those small wins add up to big wins. And I'm winning. Finally, I'm winning.
Those 1/4-lb losses look small, don't they? But they do add up. Boy, do they add up. Let's look at the progress so far.
On March 14, I started at 256. I'm now at 237.75. That's 18.25 pounds.
Last Monday, 4/10, I was at 241.25. I'm now at 237.75. That's 3.5 pounds. In a week.
When I look at it that way, it's much, MUCH more encouraging. But yes, I will continue to take the small peri-daily losses as small wins because those small wins add up to big wins. And I'm winning. Finally, I'm winning.
Sunday, April 16, 2017
Weighing In 4/16/2017 - Happy Easter!
238. No change from yesterday.
My 20-lb loss is looming ... I have two pounds to go! I'm trucking on through this weight-loss thing. And I feel good. I have good energy, my self-esteem is going through the roof, I'm eating really well (though I missed one of my waters yesterday). Today is Easter Sunday (Happy Easter) and I'm going out for dinner with the kids, but we're going to a Japanese place where I can get sashimi ... fish is absolutely allowed. I'll blow myself to a bowl of miso soup, too.
I reward for losing 10-lb chunks AND for changing the 10's digit. This is very nice; I get rewarded twice every 10 pounds, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. My reward for dropping 20 pounds will be a new pair of cross-trainers ... ones that don't squeak every time I take a step!
My 20-lb loss is looming ... I have two pounds to go! I'm trucking on through this weight-loss thing. And I feel good. I have good energy, my self-esteem is going through the roof, I'm eating really well (though I missed one of my waters yesterday). Today is Easter Sunday (Happy Easter) and I'm going out for dinner with the kids, but we're going to a Japanese place where I can get sashimi ... fish is absolutely allowed. I'll blow myself to a bowl of miso soup, too.
I reward for losing 10-lb chunks AND for changing the 10's digit. This is very nice; I get rewarded twice every 10 pounds, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. My reward for dropping 20 pounds will be a new pair of cross-trainers ... ones that don't squeak every time I take a step!
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Weighing In 4/15/2017
238, down from 238.75 yesterday.
And the excess adipose tissue keeps on peeling off.
Time to set my next reward, for dropping below 230 (that will be exciting; I haven't been below 230 since I did that HMR diet before law school). Maybe I'll go to Lord and Taylor and splurge on a nice new outfit.
No, I'll keep Lord and Taylor in the background. I'm changing shape too much to spend all that much money on clothes right now. I'll see what movies are available at the time and go to one that looks good. And, of course, I will give the celebratory donation to my husband's memorial fund with the American Lung Association.
And the excess adipose tissue keeps on peeling off.
Time to set my next reward, for dropping below 230 (that will be exciting; I haven't been below 230 since I did that HMR diet before law school). Maybe I'll go to Lord and Taylor and splurge on a nice new outfit.
No, I'll keep Lord and Taylor in the background. I'm changing shape too much to spend all that much money on clothes right now. I'll see what movies are available at the time and go to one that looks good. And, of course, I will give the celebratory donation to my husband's memorial fund with the American Lung Association.
Friday, April 14, 2017
Weighing In 4/14/2017
238.75, down from 239.25 yesterday.
It's coming off!!
Court this morning. I can't write great volumes today; no time. But I'm heading in the absolutely right direction and still doing really well on this lifestyle. Veggies and chicken and fish isn't actually boring; there is an infinite variety of ways in which to prepare the meals, so if I eat the same thing more than once, that's because I choose to do so.
It's coming off!!
Court this morning. I can't write great volumes today; no time. But I'm heading in the absolutely right direction and still doing really well on this lifestyle. Veggies and chicken and fish isn't actually boring; there is an infinite variety of ways in which to prepare the meals, so if I eat the same thing more than once, that's because I choose to do so.
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Weighing In 4/13/2017
239.25, up 0.25 from yesterday's 239.
That's the wrong direction. But I think it might be water (is that a rationalization?) since I was finishing off yesterday's hydration at midnight and didn't get up to go at all last night (??!! - a whole eight hours without peeing...).
If it goes up again tomorrow, I do an egg/grapefruit day.
That's the wrong direction. But I think it might be water (is that a rationalization?) since I was finishing off yesterday's hydration at midnight and didn't get up to go at all last night (??!! - a whole eight hours without peeing...).
If it goes up again tomorrow, I do an egg/grapefruit day.
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
Weighing In 4/12/2017
239, down from 239.75 yesterday.
It's very nice when a plateau breaks; the weight I was working on metabolizing during the plateau peels right off.
Reward day! I'm scheduled for my mani/pedi at Hair Journeys this afternoon!!
It's very nice when a plateau breaks; the weight I was working on metabolizing during the plateau peels right off.
Reward day! I'm scheduled for my mani/pedi at Hair Journeys this afternoon!!
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Weighing In 4/11/2017
239.75, down from yesterday's 241.25.
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!! All that recent plateauing has fallen off the cliff!!!!!!!
And I'm below 240!! It's time for my mani/pedi, and I've donated today to my husband's memorial fund at the American Lung Association!!
From the start, I've lost 16.5 lb, and in one week I'm down 3 lb. I'm doing well. Just gotta keep it up!
Actually, losing the weight isn't the hard part; it's keeping it off where things get really challenging. It's so easy to slide right back into the old habits. So I have a strategy for that. I'll give myself a 10-lb buffer zone; if I get above that 10-lb limit, I will go right back on the reducing diet and take it right off. In other words, this is the last time I'll work to lose 100+ lb at a stretch.
My goal is 139 lb. I started at 258 lb. That will be a total loss of 119 lb. I can obviously do that. If I ever get above 150 again, I'm back on the reducing diet. That's it.
And y'know ... this blog keeps me accountable. That's what is missing in the book-based diets out there: accountability. Everyone is so sensitive about their weight. We just need to plough through and go public and state the weight and fix it then keep it fixed. It's not that hard, and we food addicts, on the Diet Center program, can stay food addicts; we just change the tenor of the addiction.
YESSSSSSSSS!!!!!! All that recent plateauing has fallen off the cliff!!!!!!!
And I'm below 240!! It's time for my mani/pedi, and I've donated today to my husband's memorial fund at the American Lung Association!!
From the start, I've lost 16.5 lb, and in one week I'm down 3 lb. I'm doing well. Just gotta keep it up!
Actually, losing the weight isn't the hard part; it's keeping it off where things get really challenging. It's so easy to slide right back into the old habits. So I have a strategy for that. I'll give myself a 10-lb buffer zone; if I get above that 10-lb limit, I will go right back on the reducing diet and take it right off. In other words, this is the last time I'll work to lose 100+ lb at a stretch.
My goal is 139 lb. I started at 258 lb. That will be a total loss of 119 lb. I can obviously do that. If I ever get above 150 again, I'm back on the reducing diet. That's it.
And y'know ... this blog keeps me accountable. That's what is missing in the book-based diets out there: accountability. Everyone is so sensitive about their weight. We just need to plough through and go public and state the weight and fix it then keep it fixed. It's not that hard, and we food addicts, on the Diet Center program, can stay food addicts; we just change the tenor of the addiction.
Monday, April 10, 2017
Weighing In 4/10/2017
241.25. The same as yesterday.
Gah. I hate plateaus. It's probably time for another egg/grapefruit day.
I was out for several hours yesterday helping a friend look for her lost kitty cat. Lots of walking around the neighborhood, so lots of exercise in the beautiful, warm, sunny day ... but no kitty. He was spotted last night and my friend will get traps to set out to try to catch him when the pet stores open today.
If you're in the Stockade area of Schenectady, NY, please keep an eye out for Buster. If you see him, don't try to catch him; you'll just scare him off. Do post a message to this blog and I'll pass the word on to his owner, who is really quite frantic about him right now.
Gah. I hate plateaus. It's probably time for another egg/grapefruit day.
I was out for several hours yesterday helping a friend look for her lost kitty cat. Lots of walking around the neighborhood, so lots of exercise in the beautiful, warm, sunny day ... but no kitty. He was spotted last night and my friend will get traps to set out to try to catch him when the pet stores open today.
If you're in the Stockade area of Schenectady, NY, please keep an eye out for Buster. If you see him, don't try to catch him; you'll just scare him off. Do post a message to this blog and I'll pass the word on to his owner, who is really quite frantic about him right now.
Sunday, April 9, 2017
Weighing In 4/9/2017
241.25, down 0.25 from yesterday.
After the massive loss over the first couple of weeks, the snail's pace seems like it's very, very slow. But this is the healthy way to lose the weight; slowly. Weight does not go on overnight; it certainly doesn't come off overnight.
I did well yesterday. I went to a movie (saw "Beauty and the Beast"; that was my reward for getting my taxes finished and filed) and did not have popcorn or soda or candy. I didn't even miss them. That's pleasing.
I didn't do well with scheduling yesterday, though. My last glass of water was at 1 this morning. Well, today's another day and I'll do better with that. And it's sunny and supposed to get up to 67°F today (that's almost 20°C). I'm spending the afternoon out in my yard, getting it ready for tomorrow's cookout! I have to rake, get the grill out and locked to the fence, wash down the table, poison the pernicious vine, and generally spruce the place up. I might even have to mow — that would be nice!
After the massive loss over the first couple of weeks, the snail's pace seems like it's very, very slow. But this is the healthy way to lose the weight; slowly. Weight does not go on overnight; it certainly doesn't come off overnight.
I did well yesterday. I went to a movie (saw "Beauty and the Beast"; that was my reward for getting my taxes finished and filed) and did not have popcorn or soda or candy. I didn't even miss them. That's pleasing.
I didn't do well with scheduling yesterday, though. My last glass of water was at 1 this morning. Well, today's another day and I'll do better with that. And it's sunny and supposed to get up to 67°F today (that's almost 20°C). I'm spending the afternoon out in my yard, getting it ready for tomorrow's cookout! I have to rake, get the grill out and locked to the fence, wash down the table, poison the pernicious vine, and generally spruce the place up. I might even have to mow — that would be nice!
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Weighing In 4/8/2017
241.5, identical to yesterday's 241.5.
If I look at this wrong, it's frustrating. I work on this diet just as hard on the days that I lose nothing as I do on the days that I drop two pounds. I can bypass the frustration by looking at the loss from week to week. One week ago today, for example, I weighed 243.25, so I'm down 1.75 lb this week. That's a good number; two pounds per week is a good, sustainable rate at which to lose the weight and keep it off.
Stops and starts happen on this, or any, weight-loss regimen. It usually lasts a couple of days, then I drop a dramatic amount. If I still weigh 241.5 in three days, I'll hit the plateau with another egg-grapefruit day.
If I look at this wrong, it's frustrating. I work on this diet just as hard on the days that I lose nothing as I do on the days that I drop two pounds. I can bypass the frustration by looking at the loss from week to week. One week ago today, for example, I weighed 243.25, so I'm down 1.75 lb this week. That's a good number; two pounds per week is a good, sustainable rate at which to lose the weight and keep it off.
Stops and starts happen on this, or any, weight-loss regimen. It usually lasts a couple of days, then I drop a dramatic amount. If I still weigh 241.5 in three days, I'll hit the plateau with another egg-grapefruit day.
Friday, April 7, 2017
Weighing In 4/7/2017
241.5 down from yesterday's 241.75.
Slow and steady wins the race...
Yesterday I spent the whole day with a client, so eating and drinking were both very off-schedule; on nutrient target but off schedule. I didn't get my full 8 glasses of water yesterday, but I'll be back on the straight and narrow on that today.
I had the best dinner last night; I'll have to do this one again. I diced half of an apple, added cinnamon and wrapped it in a pounded-out chicken thigh. I baked it for 45 mins at 325 in an aluminum foil wrap (to hold the wrapping in place since I couldn't find my toothpicks). I had asparagus to accompany. Absolutely delicious!
Slow and steady wins the race...
Yesterday I spent the whole day with a client, so eating and drinking were both very off-schedule; on nutrient target but off schedule. I didn't get my full 8 glasses of water yesterday, but I'll be back on the straight and narrow on that today.
I had the best dinner last night; I'll have to do this one again. I diced half of an apple, added cinnamon and wrapped it in a pounded-out chicken thigh. I baked it for 45 mins at 325 in an aluminum foil wrap (to hold the wrapping in place since I couldn't find my toothpicks). I had asparagus to accompany. Absolutely delicious!
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Weighing In 4/6/2017
241.75. No change from yesterday.
Yesterday was a weird day for food. Two smoothies (one breakfast, one lunch) and a bison burger (4 raw oz meat) for dinner. I got into a rush at lunchtime and made a quick smoothie rather than cooking a proper piece of fish.
Today I have a client coming in right after lunch, so I need to pack my lunch and take it to the office. Lunch will be a cod salad today; that's quick and easy. I'll grab a box of Wasa bread and take that in, too. Then dinner will be the chicken. Maybe I'll do a chicken-apple pinwheel on a bed of lettuce (ooh, yum!). I should also cut up and freeze the fish I bought yesterday. I'll do that tonight.
Chicken'n'fish ... chicken'n'fish ... chicken'n'fish .... It's a routine that works.
Yesterday was a weird day for food. Two smoothies (one breakfast, one lunch) and a bison burger (4 raw oz meat) for dinner. I got into a rush at lunchtime and made a quick smoothie rather than cooking a proper piece of fish.
Today I have a client coming in right after lunch, so I need to pack my lunch and take it to the office. Lunch will be a cod salad today; that's quick and easy. I'll grab a box of Wasa bread and take that in, too. Then dinner will be the chicken. Maybe I'll do a chicken-apple pinwheel on a bed of lettuce (ooh, yum!). I should also cut up and freeze the fish I bought yesterday. I'll do that tonight.
Chicken'n'fish ... chicken'n'fish ... chicken'n'fish .... It's a routine that works.
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Weighing In 4/5/2017
241.75, down 0.75 lb from yesterday.
It's coming off! Another two pounds and it'll be time for my next reward. I need a mani/pedi! My toenails are half bald. I'll wait until the weight is actually off before I call Nicole, but I'm really looking forward to it! And the American Lung Association donation page in memory of my husband, Jim Simpson, needs a donation.
The Diet Center says my ideal weight is 139. So okay; I said my ultimate goal was 150, but I hereby modify that to 139. I can clearly do it, since I am doing it.
Wow. Imagine being that healthy. I've never been that healthy. Better late than never!
It's coming off! Another two pounds and it'll be time for my next reward. I need a mani/pedi! My toenails are half bald. I'll wait until the weight is actually off before I call Nicole, but I'm really looking forward to it! And the American Lung Association donation page in memory of my husband, Jim Simpson, needs a donation.
The Diet Center says my ideal weight is 139. So okay; I said my ultimate goal was 150, but I hereby modify that to 139. I can clearly do it, since I am doing it.
Wow. Imagine being that healthy. I've never been that healthy. Better late than never!
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Weighing In 4/4/2017
242.5, down from 243 yesterday.
It's been three weeks today since I started this journey. I've lost 13.5 lb in total, and I am feeling GOOD. I have more energy, I have less pain, I'm sleeping better (I still wake up to run to the loo every two hours, but I get right back to sleep rather than staying awake the rest of the night). My ego is inflated over losing 5% of my body weight in three weeks (yes, I know it's not continuing at that rate). I'm not bored with the food; in fact, I LIKE chicken with curry and black pepper; I LIKE fish of all varieties; I even LIKE veggies. I'm also forgetting to eat on occasion, which says I'm not hungry at all.
Time for lemon water and vitamins. In half an hour, it'll be time for breakfast. One very nice thing about this for someone who lives to eat is that I am living to eat better. I can still obsess over food. I just obsess over different, better food.
It's been three weeks today since I started this journey. I've lost 13.5 lb in total, and I am feeling GOOD. I have more energy, I have less pain, I'm sleeping better (I still wake up to run to the loo every two hours, but I get right back to sleep rather than staying awake the rest of the night). My ego is inflated over losing 5% of my body weight in three weeks (yes, I know it's not continuing at that rate). I'm not bored with the food; in fact, I LIKE chicken with curry and black pepper; I LIKE fish of all varieties; I even LIKE veggies. I'm also forgetting to eat on occasion, which says I'm not hungry at all.
Time for lemon water and vitamins. In half an hour, it'll be time for breakfast. One very nice thing about this for someone who lives to eat is that I am living to eat better. I can still obsess over food. I just obsess over different, better food.
Monday, April 3, 2017
Weighing In 4/3/2017
243. That's the same as yesterday's 243.
Nothing lost, nothing gained. That's okay; healthy weight loss balances out really fairly often. This is just such a plateau. If it starts moving in the wrong direction, I do another egg/grapefruit day.
Exercise is what's missing from this formula. I need to start moving. I found the Callanetics DVD last night (hurray!), so I'll start in with the upper body exercises; the PT can take care of the lower body for now. Later, though, when I get more range of motion and strength back from the PT, I'll start with the Callanetics for the hips. Callanetics will help produce the hourglass figure. Ideally, my ending measurements will be 36-26-36, but I'm 60 years old; I don't know if that will happen. And that's okay, too. As long as my waist is smaller than my bust and my hips, I'll be happy. Right now, I'm still a candied apple on two sticks. But it's changing, and that's good.
Nothing lost, nothing gained. That's okay; healthy weight loss balances out really fairly often. This is just such a plateau. If it starts moving in the wrong direction, I do another egg/grapefruit day.
Exercise is what's missing from this formula. I need to start moving. I found the Callanetics DVD last night (hurray!), so I'll start in with the upper body exercises; the PT can take care of the lower body for now. Later, though, when I get more range of motion and strength back from the PT, I'll start with the Callanetics for the hips. Callanetics will help produce the hourglass figure. Ideally, my ending measurements will be 36-26-36, but I'm 60 years old; I don't know if that will happen. And that's okay, too. As long as my waist is smaller than my bust and my hips, I'll be happy. Right now, I'm still a candied apple on two sticks. But it's changing, and that's good.
Sunday, April 2, 2017
Weighing In 4/2/2017
243, down from yesterday's 243.25.
Slow and steady wins the race. The dramatic 2-lb/day dips are done, and that's as it should be. Now it's the steady chicken-and-fish, chicken-and-fish, chicken-and-fish and lots and lots of veggies and eight glasses of lemon water every day that is getting the actual tonnage off. This is now fat metabolizing, not water squeezing out. And that makes me happy.
Slow and steady wins the race. The dramatic 2-lb/day dips are done, and that's as it should be. Now it's the steady chicken-and-fish, chicken-and-fish, chicken-and-fish and lots and lots of veggies and eight glasses of lemon water every day that is getting the actual tonnage off. This is now fat metabolizing, not water squeezing out. And that makes me happy.
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Weighing In 4/1/2017
243.25, down from yesterday's 243.5.
I'll take losing a quarter pound at a time, or less. The goal is to lose 2 pounds per week, 10 pounds per month. That's a healthy, sustainable rate.
And I have a timeline goal. Next May, May 2018, is my 40th college class reunion. I graduated from Smith College in 1978 (hard to believe that was pushing 40 years ago...). This massively excessive weight will be gone by then. It's fine to still be working on losing the last few pounds, but I will NOT show up at my 40th Smith College reunion looking like a blimp. Period.
All the psychologists out there will ask "How do you feel about losing the weight?" And they'd want me to get into my complicated history with food, and it has been a love-hate relationship my whole life. I could go on about how my parents rewarded and punished with food, or about how unhappy I was in my first marriage and that caused me to pile it on, or about the self-hatred that being fat my whole life resulted in, but why? My parents stopped doing that 40 years ago, my first husband died in 2005 (and I had a much better second marriage), I'm learning to love myself after all these years, and it's now time for me to get over it.
Weight loss may be about emotion; I'm certainly happy to be losing the weight, and, yes, I'm impatient for all that excess adipose tissue to be gone. But for me, it's a contract. I can keep the contract with myself and lose the effing weight, or not. I've started this blog before and have dropped the ball and not kept the contract, and that fact pisses me off. It's time to keep the contract. So that's what I'm doing.
It's April 1. It's the first of the month, and the first of each month is my assigned picture and measurements day. Here are pictures of my slimming body; you can't see the "slim" yet, but it's coming. I post these horrors so I can later point to them and say, "Look what I did!" I also post them to remind myself NEVER to come back here; 243.25 lb is a better place than was my starting weight of 256, but it's still not a good place.
I'll take losing a quarter pound at a time, or less. The goal is to lose 2 pounds per week, 10 pounds per month. That's a healthy, sustainable rate.
And I have a timeline goal. Next May, May 2018, is my 40th college class reunion. I graduated from Smith College in 1978 (hard to believe that was pushing 40 years ago...). This massively excessive weight will be gone by then. It's fine to still be working on losing the last few pounds, but I will NOT show up at my 40th Smith College reunion looking like a blimp. Period.
All the psychologists out there will ask "How do you feel about losing the weight?" And they'd want me to get into my complicated history with food, and it has been a love-hate relationship my whole life. I could go on about how my parents rewarded and punished with food, or about how unhappy I was in my first marriage and that caused me to pile it on, or about the self-hatred that being fat my whole life resulted in, but why? My parents stopped doing that 40 years ago, my first husband died in 2005 (and I had a much better second marriage), I'm learning to love myself after all these years, and it's now time for me to get over it.
Weight loss may be about emotion; I'm certainly happy to be losing the weight, and, yes, I'm impatient for all that excess adipose tissue to be gone. But for me, it's a contract. I can keep the contract with myself and lose the effing weight, or not. I've started this blog before and have dropped the ball and not kept the contract, and that fact pisses me off. It's time to keep the contract. So that's what I'm doing.
It's April 1. It's the first of the month, and the first of each month is my assigned picture and measurements day. Here are pictures of my slimming body; you can't see the "slim" yet, but it's coming. I post these horrors so I can later point to them and say, "Look what I did!" I also post them to remind myself NEVER to come back here; 243.25 lb is a better place than was my starting weight of 256, but it's still not a good place.
And here are today's measurements, compared with the starting measurements. I have lost a total of 17.5 inches since I started!
| 14-Mar | 1-Apr | Difference | |
| Weight | 256 | 243.25 | -12.75 |
| Bust | 49.5 | 48.5 | -1 |
| Waist | 51 | 50 | -1 |
| Hips | 48 | 47.5 | -0.5 |
| Upper Arm L | 15 | 14 | -1 |
| Upper Arm R | 15 | 14.5 | -0.5 |
| Mid-Thigh L | 23 | 23.25 | 0.25 |
| Mid-Thigh R | 25 | 24 | -1 |
| Calf L | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Calf R | 16 | 16 | 0 |
| Inches Lost | -17.5 |
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