222.75, down from yesterday's 223.0.
Hey. 0.25 pound is 0.25 pound. It's better than nothing. And I was hungry yesterday. I was (and am) very proud of myself for sticking to my Plan! I did NOT eat crackers. I did NOT eat a second dish of yogurt. I did NOT eat pizza. And I could have. But that would have sabotaged the Plan. All I did was move the times up by half an hour. That worked.
Today's Plan
Pre-breakfast: lemon juice, vitamins
Breakfast: Bran pancake, water
10 a.m.: Strawberries, water
Lunch: Fish salad, water
2 pm: Wasa, water
4 pm: Wasa, water
Dinner: Stir-fried chicken and bok choy, water
7:30 pm: Apple, water
9:30 pm: 1/2 cup Greek yogurt
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Saturday, October 12, 2019
10/12/2019 Weigh In
223.0, down from yesterday's 223.75 (no change yesterday from 10/10).
0.75 lb gone. Last Saturday, I weighed 229.0, so there is now six pounds less of me this week! I'm happy about that!
No time to ruminate on it, though; gotta get ready to go to my personal training session this morning. And the traffic will be horrid, I think.
Today's Plan is the same as every day's Plan. It works well for me.
Pre-breakfast: lemon juice, vitamins
Breakfast: Bran pancake, water
10 a.m.: Apple (in the car), water
Lunch: Chicken salad, water
2 pm: Wasa, water
4 pm: Wasa, water
Dinner: Fish salad, water
7:30 pm: Pear, water
9:30 pm: Yogurt
Thursday, October 10, 2019
10/10/2019 Weigh In
223.75, down from yesterday's 224.75.
A pound a day! Very, very nice! I'll take it! At that rate, I would be 70 pounds lighter in 70 days ... by Christmas. Yeah, like that's going to happen.
The reducing diet is going well. I'm a little hungry by meal times, but the meal satisfies. Yesterday's herbal teas kept me happy for snack in the morning. Today I'm doing fruit for a morning snack ... actually, for a top-off to breakfast, since I just woke up at 10 a.m. So the very first thing I get to do is drink three glasses of water, one with lemon juice in it, eat a bran pancake and ... oh, I'll eat an apple first thing.
Lunch is chicken salad and water. Right now, I have to thaw the chicken.
2 pm is herbal tea.
3 pm is Wasa and water.
Dinner will have to be early today; I have a Toastmasters meeting at 6, so dinner, fish (probably halibut tonight; I bought haddock, halibut and salmon yesterday), Wasa and water, will be at 5.
I'll get home from the Toastmasters meeting at about 8:45, at which point I'll have a bowl of strawberries and water.
A pound a day! Very, very nice! I'll take it! At that rate, I would be 70 pounds lighter in 70 days ... by Christmas. Yeah, like that's going to happen.
The reducing diet is going well. I'm a little hungry by meal times, but the meal satisfies. Yesterday's herbal teas kept me happy for snack in the morning. Today I'm doing fruit for a morning snack ... actually, for a top-off to breakfast, since I just woke up at 10 a.m. So the very first thing I get to do is drink three glasses of water, one with lemon juice in it, eat a bran pancake and ... oh, I'll eat an apple first thing.
Lunch is chicken salad and water. Right now, I have to thaw the chicken.
2 pm is herbal tea.
3 pm is Wasa and water.
Dinner will have to be early today; I have a Toastmasters meeting at 6, so dinner, fish (probably halibut tonight; I bought haddock, halibut and salmon yesterday), Wasa and water, will be at 5.
I'll get home from the Toastmasters meeting at about 8:45, at which point I'll have a bowl of strawberries and water.
Wednesday, October 9, 2019
10/9/2019 Weigh In
224.75, down from yesterday's 225.75.
Another pound gone!
The rate won't last, but I'll take it while it's good for the taking.
Today I have meetings all day. That means, of course, that I must brown-bag my lunch and daytime snacks. I have herbal tea and Wasa at work, but no salad or protein (other than protein powder which is not in the Plan). I shall bring with me a bag of salad greens and a cooked salmon fillet. As my husband always said, "Prior planning prevents poor performance."
Today's Plan:
Pre-Breakfast: glass of lemon juice, vitamins
Breakfast: bran pancake made with cinnamon and stevia, water
10 a.m.: herbal tea, water
Lunch: salad, salmon, water
2 p.m.: Wasa, water
4 p.m.: herbal tea, Wasa, water
Dinner: salad, chicken, water
7:30 p.m.: apple, water
9:30 p.m.: 1/2 C Greek yogurt with cocoa powder and almond extract, water
UPDATE:
Yeah, the schedule worked sort of okay today. And the herbal tea worked magnificently as a midmorning and mid afternoon pick-me-up. I had fish for dinner rather than chicken. I was hungry at dinnertime, but the salad, fish, apple and water filled me nicely, and 1/4 C of yogurt was probably overkill.
Breakfast: bran pancake made with cinnamon and stevia, water
10 a.m.: herbal tea, water
Lunch: salad, salmon, water
2 p.m.: Wasa, water
4 p.m.: herbal tea, Wasa, water
Dinner: salad, chicken, water
7:30 p.m.: apple, water
9:30 p.m.: 1/2 C Greek yogurt with cocoa powder and almond extract, water
UPDATE:
Yeah, the schedule worked sort of okay today. And the herbal tea worked magnificently as a midmorning and mid afternoon pick-me-up. I had fish for dinner rather than chicken. I was hungry at dinnertime, but the salad, fish, apple and water filled me nicely, and 1/4 C of yogurt was probably overkill.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019
10/8/2019 Weigh In
225.75, down 1.25 lb. from yesterday's 227.0.
YES!! 1.25 lb lost yesterday ... I'll take it.
And I woke up this morning not hungry. Yes, I can easily eat, but I'm certainly not ravenously hungry. I rather like the two cheats I had yesterday (an extra piece of fruit and 1/2 C plain nonfat Greek yogurt with almond extract, Stevia and cocoa powder); they seem to satisfy the hunger. I shall keep them for the moment.
I am working on exorcising the demon that has kept me fat for all these years. I've always been heavy, and that has sat badly with a demon whose voice has been with me forever. The driving force behind that demon ... a fat-shaming close family member ... has been dead and gone for nearly five years now, and it's time to get that voice out of my head. I deserve to be fit and healthy ... even though, yes, I'm now in my 60s and have arthritis in one hip and extraordinarily tight hip flexors in both hips, so I now walk with a gimp and can't run at all. I walk, actually, like my grandmother walked ... grabbing onto solid objects as I pass them for support. That pisses me off. I never liked that grandmother much.
This is the shape I need to get out of before I go on my Grand Tour of (some of) the western National Parks next summer. Weight loss, NordicTrack, and personal trainer to the rescue!
Goals. Time to set goals. I will weigh 210 lb by Thanksgiving. That's a goal. It's achievable; not easy, but achievable. I have 1.5 months to lose 15.75 lb. It's an important goal; I'm off to England for a week right after Thanksgiving! First time in decades I will have visited London!
Long-term, 145 remains the pie-in-the-sky dream, but that is totally invisible to me at this moment. I'll do this in shorter chunks.
So. Today's Plan:
Pre-Breakfast: glass of lemon juice, vitamins
Breakfast: bran pancake made with cinnamon and stevia, water
10 a.m.: orange, water
Lunch: salad, chicken, water
2 p.m.: Wasa, water
4 p.m.: 1/2 C Greek yogurt with cocoa powder & almond extract, water
Dinner: salad, chicken, Wasa, water
7:30 p.m.: apple, water
9:30 p.m.: 1 C strawberries, water
The yogurt and the strawberries are cheats on the strict diet. I figure that if I plan the cheats, I won't cheat the Plan.
UPDATE at 10:26 pm:
I stuck to the Plan ... except for some of the times. I exchanged the timing of the Greek yogurt and the strawberries (1 cup of strawberries is less than I wanted it to be...), and I had the Greek yogurt at 8:15, not at 9:30. I am now going to bed comfortably full.
Tomorrow will be challenging since I'll be in my office all day with clients. I'll likely do the same Plan tomorrow, except I'll substitute salmon for chicken for lunch.
YES!! 1.25 lb lost yesterday ... I'll take it.
And I woke up this morning not hungry. Yes, I can easily eat, but I'm certainly not ravenously hungry. I rather like the two cheats I had yesterday (an extra piece of fruit and 1/2 C plain nonfat Greek yogurt with almond extract, Stevia and cocoa powder); they seem to satisfy the hunger. I shall keep them for the moment.
I am working on exorcising the demon that has kept me fat for all these years. I've always been heavy, and that has sat badly with a demon whose voice has been with me forever. The driving force behind that demon ... a fat-shaming close family member ... has been dead and gone for nearly five years now, and it's time to get that voice out of my head. I deserve to be fit and healthy ... even though, yes, I'm now in my 60s and have arthritis in one hip and extraordinarily tight hip flexors in both hips, so I now walk with a gimp and can't run at all. I walk, actually, like my grandmother walked ... grabbing onto solid objects as I pass them for support. That pisses me off. I never liked that grandmother much.
This is the shape I need to get out of before I go on my Grand Tour of (some of) the western National Parks next summer. Weight loss, NordicTrack, and personal trainer to the rescue!
Goals. Time to set goals. I will weigh 210 lb by Thanksgiving. That's a goal. It's achievable; not easy, but achievable. I have 1.5 months to lose 15.75 lb. It's an important goal; I'm off to England for a week right after Thanksgiving! First time in decades I will have visited London!
Long-term, 145 remains the pie-in-the-sky dream, but that is totally invisible to me at this moment. I'll do this in shorter chunks.
So. Today's Plan:
Pre-Breakfast: glass of lemon juice, vitamins
Breakfast: bran pancake made with cinnamon and stevia, water
10 a.m.: orange, water
Lunch: salad, chicken, water
2 p.m.: Wasa, water
4 p.m.: 1/2 C Greek yogurt with cocoa powder & almond extract, water
Dinner: salad, chicken, Wasa, water
7:30 p.m.: apple, water
9:30 p.m.: 1 C strawberries, water
The yogurt and the strawberries are cheats on the strict diet. I figure that if I plan the cheats, I won't cheat the Plan.
UPDATE at 10:26 pm:
I stuck to the Plan ... except for some of the times. I exchanged the timing of the Greek yogurt and the strawberries (1 cup of strawberries is less than I wanted it to be...), and I had the Greek yogurt at 8:15, not at 9:30. I am now going to bed comfortably full.
Tomorrow will be challenging since I'll be in my office all day with clients. I'll likely do the same Plan tomorrow, except I'll substitute salmon for chicken for lunch.
Monday, October 7, 2019
10/7/2019 Weigh In
227.0, down from yesterday's 229.0.
That feels good. Two pounds gone in one day on the conditioning diet. Today begins the weight-loss diet. That's a whole different kettle of fish. Speaking of which, I'll be eating a lot of fish. And chicken.
As lovely as it is, the two-pounds-per-day thing will not last; I know that. I will hit plateaus, I will get frustrated, I will curse and vent and bitch and moan ... and the weight will come off. It just won't do it the way I want it to. Well, so be it. When needed, I'll do an egg-grapefruit day.
And it's time to get onto the NordicTrack. That will do at least two things: it will help the weight peel off and it will get me into shape for my Grand Plan for next summer.
It's also time to start taking advantage of the swimming membership I have at the gym. I love to swim. I love to be in the water. But it's something of a PITA to drive from Schenectady to Guilderland to do that.
Time to eat breakfast. Breakfast will be a glass of water, then a bran pancake (2 Tbsp unprocessed bran, 1 egg, some flavoring ... I'll use cinnamon) and a glass of lemon juice/water and vitamins. That'll keep me going til 10:30, at which point I'll have a pear and a glass of water. Then at noon I'll eat a salad with lots of lettuce and spinach and some chicken and a glass of water. At 3 pm, I'll have a Wasa and a glass of water. For dinner at 6, I'll have broiled salmon, lots of salad, Wasa and water. For snack at 7:30, I'll have an apple and water. And I'll spend the entire day peeing. When I get hungry in the evening, I'll climb on the NordicTrack and get my blood sugar cranked up with some exercise.
So ... that's the Plan for today.
UPDATE: I stuck to the Plan pretty well today. I added 1/2 cup Greek yogurt with almond extract and cocoa powder for dinner’s dessert and an orange at about 9:30 tonight. That’s not a bad plan; with those two additions, I did not feel hungry. And that makes me happy. It’ll slow down the weight loss somewhat if I continue those two cheats, but not significantly, I think.
UPDATE: I stuck to the Plan pretty well today. I added 1/2 cup Greek yogurt with almond extract and cocoa powder for dinner’s dessert and an orange at about 9:30 tonight. That’s not a bad plan; with those two additions, I did not feel hungry. And that makes me happy. It’ll slow down the weight loss somewhat if I continue those two cheats, but not significantly, I think.
Sunday, October 6, 2019
10/6/2019 Weigh In
229.0. Grumble.
When last I weighed myself, 11 months ago, I was 200.75. Clearly, I've slipped. My excuse (and that is EXACTLY what this is): Christmas happened. With eggnog cheesecake. Then I didn't go back onto the Plan. While Christmas will happen again, eggnog cheesecake won't.
It's time to get it back in gear and get this show on the road.
I started the Diet Center conditioning diet yesterday, and have one more day to go with that. Then it's chicken-and-fish, chicken-and-fish, chicken-and-fish forevermore.
I have a goal. I have Big Plans for next summer: I'm going to camp my way through the western National Parks. I'll start at probably the southern end with Grand Canyon, then drive up through the Rockies, hitting national parks along the way. I've gotten lots of recommendations for which parks to see; the Big Four on my list are Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain and Glacier. To do this effectively, I need to be at least 50 lb ... preferably 70 lb ... lighter than I am right now by the time my birthday rolls around in late June.
I Can Do This.
MEASUREMENTS
Neck 16.5"
Chest 46.5"/43.25"
Waist 47"
Hips 46.5"
Upper L arm 13.25"
Upper R arm 14"
L thigh 22.5"
R thigh 23"
L calf 15"
R calf 15.5"
When last I weighed myself, 11 months ago, I was 200.75. Clearly, I've slipped. My excuse (and that is EXACTLY what this is): Christmas happened. With eggnog cheesecake. Then I didn't go back onto the Plan. While Christmas will happen again, eggnog cheesecake won't.
It's time to get it back in gear and get this show on the road.
I started the Diet Center conditioning diet yesterday, and have one more day to go with that. Then it's chicken-and-fish, chicken-and-fish, chicken-and-fish forevermore.
I have a goal. I have Big Plans for next summer: I'm going to camp my way through the western National Parks. I'll start at probably the southern end with Grand Canyon, then drive up through the Rockies, hitting national parks along the way. I've gotten lots of recommendations for which parks to see; the Big Four on my list are Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Rocky Mountain and Glacier. To do this effectively, I need to be at least 50 lb ... preferably 70 lb ... lighter than I am right now by the time my birthday rolls around in late June.
I Can Do This.
MEASUREMENTS
Neck 16.5"
Chest 46.5"/43.25"
Waist 47"
Hips 46.5"
Upper L arm 13.25"
Upper R arm 14"
L thigh 22.5"
R thigh 23"
L calf 15"
R calf 15.5"
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