ALERT!! ALTER!! ALERT 0 Readers, ALERT!!
As of yesterday I lost 4.8 lbs for a total of 51 lbs in 10 weeks!! WOO HOO!! That's 70 days of hard work, of perseverance and of sacrifice and hunger. lol!
So I am part of the way through, and it feels great.
I will try going back into the pool on Saturday, hopefully all goes well and I will be swimming every night starting Monday!
That is all for today 0 Readers. I am coming up with some more ideas of things to blog about. Hurdles I am trying to solve like: How do I find time to create delicious low carb meals for Breakfast Lunch and Dinner when I get up at 6:30 AM and get home after 9:00 PM every day? So I am trying to come up with some solutions and ideas. I will post about them when I more formulated than just "WTF am I suppose to do???" lol!
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Monday, August 12, 2013
Day 68, not much news
So I lost 2.4 lbs last week, I weigh-in tomorrow but don't expect too much more than that this week either. Not able to swim every night really puts a hamper on things and now - since I've increased my walking to offset not swimming - my hip bursa, mostly on the right, are swollen and painful. Treatment? Rest. lol! OF COURSE! lol! Of course it's rest. lol! Which I am not doing. I am still walking but icing and taking ibuprofen for the swelling/pain.
Just funny that this happens now. of course!!
Anyway, that's the story, nothing much, just doing my shakes, my walking and getting the thing DONE! lol!
I've had lots of great responses now that I've told most of my close family and friends. Of course. I expected they would all be so happy, relieved and excited. It's been great but I really needed to wait until I knew I could really do this.
I've started trying to retrain my brain a little. When I get that starving feeling, the kind where a shake just won't take the edge off, I search healthy meals, salads, dishes and look at them, read the instructions, etc. I'm trying to train my brain to crave those things so that when I can eat food again and I get hungry, I want the citrus salad or the grilled fish with fresh herbs and garden salad with oil and vinegar.
Who knows if this trick works, but I'm trying everything I can to change my life.
Alright 0 Readers, I will check back in over the next few days. Again, since not much going on except doing the hard, repetitive, daily work, I won't be posting as much. I imagine when I'm in a much closer striking distance to my goal, when I can start shopping for clothes, when I can really see the end, I will post much more. Or when I hit the inevitable plateau and want to scream with frustration and anger. lol!
Just funny that this happens now. of course!!
Anyway, that's the story, nothing much, just doing my shakes, my walking and getting the thing DONE! lol!
I've had lots of great responses now that I've told most of my close family and friends. Of course. I expected they would all be so happy, relieved and excited. It's been great but I really needed to wait until I knew I could really do this.
I've started trying to retrain my brain a little. When I get that starving feeling, the kind where a shake just won't take the edge off, I search healthy meals, salads, dishes and look at them, read the instructions, etc. I'm trying to train my brain to crave those things so that when I can eat food again and I get hungry, I want the citrus salad or the grilled fish with fresh herbs and garden salad with oil and vinegar.
Who knows if this trick works, but I'm trying everything I can to change my life.
Alright 0 Readers, I will check back in over the next few days. Again, since not much going on except doing the hard, repetitive, daily work, I won't be posting as much. I imagine when I'm in a much closer striking distance to my goal, when I can start shopping for clothes, when I can really see the end, I will post much more. Or when I hit the inevitable plateau and want to scream with frustration and anger. lol!
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Day 62
I will obviously be posting less, there is a lot less to discuss or talk about since I am now on a fairly solid routine. These are the middle days. The days were I do the same thing over and over and keep getting good results.
I do have one set back, though for awesome reasons. I had minor work done on my left big toe and am not able to do my swimming exercises for at least a week, may be up to 3 weeks. But I've been waiting so long to get this done, I can deal with a few weeks of slightly lower weight loss results. I think. lol!
I also had a minor brush with almost a bad situation. Constipation! lol! So as we've maybe or maybe not discussed, one of the frequently mentioned side effects of this diet with the shakes is constipation. It hasn't been a problem for me since I'm on Metformin which has a side effect of the exact opposite situation. lol! Anyway, last week (Wednesday) my doc asked me if I was ready to try and go off the metformin and see how my blood sugars go. Prior to that I was in Tahoe and on that Monday I had a serious case of the runs and had to take Imodium before the long drive back.
Well...flash forward to Wednesday, no bowel movement since Monday but I wasn't concerned at that point - hand't thought of it really, doc asks me if I want to go off of the Metformin I say yes!! So the next day (Thursday) I stop taking metformin. On Friday I have the minor work done on my toe. With constant questions of "How are your sugars?" "Do you have your blood glucose under control?" - they wanted to make sure my sugars were fine so that my healing would go smoothly. I said yes, not even thinking I had actually gone off my medication.
So I had the work done and on Saturday, after reviewing my numbers - all great except that they are in the "pre-diabetic" ranges - I decided to take my metformin again to make sure the healing goes OK. I took the meds on Saturday, on Sunday and then on Monday, after my 3rd dose, the "damn" broke and I was finally moving my bowels again! lol!
I was so worried that I would not get everything moving in time for my weigh in! lol! Isn't I wasn't worried about my health, I was worried about my weight loss! lol!
So the two things to take from this:
1. My blood glucose numbers are dropping and I might just be able to reverse my type 2 Diabetes
2. Life gets a lot more complicated the more medical stuff you have going on! lol!
Anyway, that's what I have for you. May or may not post tomorrow, but will post Thursday (Day 64) to provide my probably not stellar weight loss results for this week.
I do have one set back, though for awesome reasons. I had minor work done on my left big toe and am not able to do my swimming exercises for at least a week, may be up to 3 weeks. But I've been waiting so long to get this done, I can deal with a few weeks of slightly lower weight loss results. I think. lol!
I also had a minor brush with almost a bad situation. Constipation! lol! So as we've maybe or maybe not discussed, one of the frequently mentioned side effects of this diet with the shakes is constipation. It hasn't been a problem for me since I'm on Metformin which has a side effect of the exact opposite situation. lol! Anyway, last week (Wednesday) my doc asked me if I was ready to try and go off the metformin and see how my blood sugars go. Prior to that I was in Tahoe and on that Monday I had a serious case of the runs and had to take Imodium before the long drive back.
Well...flash forward to Wednesday, no bowel movement since Monday but I wasn't concerned at that point - hand't thought of it really, doc asks me if I want to go off of the Metformin I say yes!! So the next day (Thursday) I stop taking metformin. On Friday I have the minor work done on my toe. With constant questions of "How are your sugars?" "Do you have your blood glucose under control?" - they wanted to make sure my sugars were fine so that my healing would go smoothly. I said yes, not even thinking I had actually gone off my medication.
So I had the work done and on Saturday, after reviewing my numbers - all great except that they are in the "pre-diabetic" ranges - I decided to take my metformin again to make sure the healing goes OK. I took the meds on Saturday, on Sunday and then on Monday, after my 3rd dose, the "damn" broke and I was finally moving my bowels again! lol!
I was so worried that I would not get everything moving in time for my weigh in! lol! Isn't I wasn't worried about my health, I was worried about my weight loss! lol!
So the two things to take from this:
1. My blood glucose numbers are dropping and I might just be able to reverse my type 2 Diabetes
2. Life gets a lot more complicated the more medical stuff you have going on! lol!
Anyway, that's what I have for you. May or may not post tomorrow, but will post Thursday (Day 64) to provide my probably not stellar weight loss results for this week.
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Day 57
ALERT! ALERT! Alert 0 Readers, ALERT! I lost 7.4 lbs, which means I've lost 9.8 lbs in 14 days and a total of 44 lbs in 56 days (or 8 weeks) SO AWESOME!
I'm very happy. I finally looked at myself in a full length mirror and was STUNNED at the difference, it's so crazy! I still have a long, long way to go, but MAN does it feel good.
My doc also asked if I wanted to drop the metformin to see if my blood sugar is OK now...finger crossed! It will take a few days to get the metformin out of my system and then we will see!!
Ok, back to the grind!!
I'm very happy. I finally looked at myself in a full length mirror and was STUNNED at the difference, it's so crazy! I still have a long, long way to go, but MAN does it feel good.
My doc also asked if I wanted to drop the metformin to see if my blood sugar is OK now...finger crossed! It will take a few days to get the metformin out of my system and then we will see!!
Ok, back to the grind!!
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