Hot dang! Not to say w00t!
One
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Thirty
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POUNDS!!!
At 5:30 in the morning. The morning AFTER having met Tina at a fancy restaurant to celebrate her new job. And mightily pigging out on a gorgeous meal with perfectly grilled salmon over a deep-fried risotto cake with an awesome sauce atop an amazing base of greens and veggies, followed by a spectacular Italianate custard with fruit and this buttery COOKIE and two glasses of wine and syrupy coffee with cream and…good grief!
LOL! The last time the scale claimed I weighed this little, ships navigated by sextant and only Dick Tracy had a cell phone. Actually, it was a wrist radio…same general principal, though. 😉
Believe it or not, the other day I actually managed to squeeze into a SIZE 8 pair of blue jeans. True…they were Ralph Lauren (at that price, they can afford to fudge the sizes). Truer still: even though they would fasten (after a fashion), this kind of muffin effect appeared around the waistband. So I guess we won’t be changing from those Costco little-old-lady specials soon. 😀
Here’s a fun (or funny?) BMI and everything else calculator. What a hoot!
According to this thing, once I hit the target goal of 130 (like…maybe in about a week? less, even???), I could maintain the present weight on 1739 calories a day — about 240 more than I’ve supposedly been ingesting. Except when I’m scarfing down rice cakes and Italian custards.
Actually, compared to what I used to weigh as a young girl, I’m still a little fat. As a 20-something, my weight stayed at a steady 125. Post-pregnancy, it went up to about 132. Then starting about age 40, the pounds started to creep on, an ounce at a time…pretty much unnoticeably.
Don’t recall what I weighed when I started on the Atkins diet, about 10 years ago…around 145 or so, I imagine.
Atkins worked. Got back down to around 130 or 125.
Well. It worked for about 18 months.
Then I got hungry for pasta.
And beer. A lot of beer. A lot of pasta.
It’s pretty unrealistic to think you can live for the rest of your life without your favorite foods. With any luck, after this experiment I should be able to have the occasional deep-fried risotto cake and the occasional sugary dessert, as long as it doesn’t go back to being an everyday thing.
Hope so. It’d sure be nice never to see 156.8 on a scale again!
Congratulations! I started running 3 months ago and am down 10lb, I have to say I’ve been impressed by how you stuck with it all summer and all the exercise you’ve been doing. I don’t have your steadiness but am happy with the results… except I need clothes haha.
Running or brisk walking is a great way to lose weight. About 16 or 18 years ago, I started walking in the mountain preserves almost every day — a real time-sucker, but as a lady of leisure I could afford it. And I also lost 10 pounds in about three months.
More interesting, I went in to my doctor for a check-up and he said, “Oh! I see you’re hiking!” He could actually tell I’d taken up regular walking just by looking at me…I hadn’t mentioned it to him, because it wasn’t a health thing, it was a fill-idle-time thing.
Good job! That’s a great achievement indeed. The best thing about reaching milestones is the motivation high you get after. Congratulations again!
Thanks!
True about the milestone phenomenon. The next question is, what happens when you’ve reached the milestone and the goal changes to not moving off the milestone?
Bravo!
Well Done! Any other possible side benefits you’ve noticed?…More energy….less aches and pains….better mental outlook?
Well, I haven’t tested the blood pressure with the home monitor, but the last time I was at a quack’s office, it was down to 128/84, after an hour’s drive through homicidal rush-hour traffic and while I was yakking away. At the time I started this project, one BP measuring showed a systolic pressure of 148. That was a bit on the alarming side…and it wasn’t the only reading in that range.
Mentally, it’s cheering to be able to get a belt around my belly again. And it’s kind of nice to hear your friends remark on how great you look, even though at almost 70 you know very well “great” is not how you’ll ever look again. 😀
Otherwise, not much. The back thing is apparently the result of permanent disk degeneration and is not going to go away. Fortunately, the diet has not precluded my favorite analgesic, gin & tonic…which, quite seriously, is about the only thing that helps.
Oh, congratulations, well done. You give hope to all your struggling-with-weight readers. I admire your tenacious approach to health issues, an example to us all. 🙂
It’s really not very difficult, as long as you have a plan. It helps to convince yourself that about 85% of the food a grocery store sells is NOT food and that about 98% of restaurant food is toxic.
And…reading the ingredients label will go a long way toward fostering those beliefs…
Wow! Congrats!
WOW ANIMAL! Love it!
I think you’d love marksdailyapples.com and similar sites.
Congrats!!!!