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!
Friday, April 7, 2017
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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