Hello!! Long time no see! I didn't post anything cause nothing was happening but weight loss and working out...and summer of course!
I am now at 71 lbs lost as of last Wednesday's weigh-in.
I have dropped down to at size 1X now!! Woo hoo!!
I think I still have another 100lbs to go.
I have cheated 3 times now. I didn't have any food one day, was out and forgot my packets and was unable to go home to get it so I ordered the Asian Salad Wrap w/chicken from Togo's - their lowest calorie/carb menu item - and had half of that. It was AWESOME! hahaha!!
I had 2 bites of garlic bread that I made for friends and even swallowed it! lol! (remember in the beginning I would chew and spit something from time to time)
I had 3 almonds one night.
I feel horrible for having cheated but at the same time I don't hate myself for it, kind of proud that I've done so well.
I've started riding roller-coasters!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's so exciting! We have gone to the boardwalk twice now since I thought I could ride the rides again, it's been great!
Saw friends I hadn't seen in forever and they were floored!
I am less upset at pictures of myself but I still have a large mount of weight to lose. I'm enjoying the results of my current loss, but need to keep focused. I'm not "skinny" yet, never will be really, and even though people are applying that term to me, it's only relative to where I was to where I am now, not an accurate description of me compared to most people.
I am really happy with what I've done but now am going to step up my gym time. Today I am graduating from working out in the pool to working out on the machines. I'm ready for the higher impact/harder work outs. Yea!!
I am completing my 15th week on the diet, my current weightleos is 4.7 lbs per week. I'd like to raise that average by 1 lb and to do that I need to step it up these next few months. I want to lose my next 100 in 20 weeks lol!
That's most of it for now, exciting things like I got to buy a souvenir sweatshirt that fit - hadn't been able to do that for years! My legs are looking skinnier, I can fit a seat-belt all the way to the latch and still have room! I can move so much easier and doing work stuff is so much better now that I can move more freely - have to build furniture all the time, or carry stuff for meetings or deal with the HVAC and movement is so much better. I have more energy and am excited to do things and not mortified to go out in public!
I look forward to doing things that keep me moving, that's the most exciting part - how much fun I'm having moving and burning calories. Knowing that it's fun and healthy really is great, it's so new for me!
Monday, September 23, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Day 71 - Week 10 Completed yesterday!!
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!
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!
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!!
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Day 56 - Week 8 COMPLETED
Wow! 8 WEEKS!! This is really awesome! I think I am going to register a 7 lb loss from last Tuesday to today. I lost 2.4 lbs from Thursday two weeks ago to the following Monday, so that would be - if my 7 lbs guess is right - 9.4 lbs in 2 weeks!! WOO HOO!! I LOVE THIS!!
Also, I am now in my 1st set of step down clothes!!! I am fitting into the smaller clothes and it feels great! My mobility increases every day. I'm working out Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, active/dancing/running around with friends on Friday and Saturday and then rest on Wednesdays and Sundays.
One of the ladies in my group was acting as if I'm being obsessive about my working out, but I think she's being defensive cause she's only losing like .5 to 1.5 lbs per week. At first I was like "Am I being obsessive?" and then I realized - even if I am, that's OK! lol! I'm not I don't think, but even if I am that is fine. Of all the times for me to obsess over working out, now's the time people!!
Ok, so, 8 weeks in, maybe it's time to post what I looked like when I started and what I look like now...Damn this is scary! lol! I hope none of my 0 Readers are stalkers! hahah! ;)
Also, I am now in my 1st set of step down clothes!!! I am fitting into the smaller clothes and it feels great! My mobility increases every day. I'm working out Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, active/dancing/running around with friends on Friday and Saturday and then rest on Wednesdays and Sundays.
One of the ladies in my group was acting as if I'm being obsessive about my working out, but I think she's being defensive cause she's only losing like .5 to 1.5 lbs per week. At first I was like "Am I being obsessive?" and then I realized - even if I am, that's OK! lol! I'm not I don't think, but even if I am that is fine. Of all the times for me to obsess over working out, now's the time people!!
Ok, so, 8 weeks in, maybe it's time to post what I looked like when I started and what I look like now...Damn this is scary! lol! I hope none of my 0 Readers are stalkers! hahah! ;)
DAY 01
Day 55
(Notice, the same shirt! lol!)
Well, wish me luck tonight 0 Readers...I hope to get great news!
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Day 55
I am back from my vacation 0 Readers and MAN did I have a great time! Went to South Lake Tahoe, won some money, did a lot of walking, went to the lake, slept in...it was perfect!!
I did a last minute weigh-in on Monday night, registered a 2.6 lb loss from Thursday to Monday. Not a lot but good I guess. I wanted more of course but was very busy and only able to work on Thursday due to plans on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
I am hoping to register a big weight loss after my very active vacation!
So, let's see...I ate lettuce, cucumbers and red wine vinegar, god was it amazing!! lol! The flavors tasted like a rainbow. The lettuce was SOOO sweet! I cleared this with my doctor before the vacation. It was a special dinner and I wanted to eat something.
I start working out again today, weigh-in tomorrow and then Weds & Thrus. at the gym, Friday night swimming with the friends. And Saturday too!
Trying to keep busy, loving my clothes getting bigger and bigger. Love my seat belt having more and more room, love feeling lighter and moving more easily! I am keeping all my goals in sight and just keep persevering!!
Talk to you later, 0 Readers!!
I did a last minute weigh-in on Monday night, registered a 2.6 lb loss from Thursday to Monday. Not a lot but good I guess. I wanted more of course but was very busy and only able to work on Thursday due to plans on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
I am hoping to register a big weight loss after my very active vacation!
So, let's see...I ate lettuce, cucumbers and red wine vinegar, god was it amazing!! lol! The flavors tasted like a rainbow. The lettuce was SOOO sweet! I cleared this with my doctor before the vacation. It was a special dinner and I wanted to eat something.
I start working out again today, weigh-in tomorrow and then Weds & Thrus. at the gym, Friday night swimming with the friends. And Saturday too!
Trying to keep busy, loving my clothes getting bigger and bigger. Love my seat belt having more and more room, love feeling lighter and moving more easily! I am keeping all my goals in sight and just keep persevering!!
Talk to you later, 0 Readers!!
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