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I stuck at 195 for a few days, then dropped down to 193, where I've been stuck for a few days, is there a pattern here? As long as I continue to go down, I guess I'll take it. At this rate though, it will be spring before I get my boots and sweater dress (reward for hitting 185).
Has anyone watched Weight of the Nation on HBO? I re-watched some of it last night, and it's frightening. I learned that 80% of the people with arthritis in weight-bearing joints are overweight. Hello! I was bringing on my own demise with all those extra pounds. Slowly killing myself, wow. I'm so glad that I have been able to turn it around. I would love to help young people who are struggling with weight turn it around before they have to go through what I went through with my knee, and worse. They featured identical twin men in their 60s, one overweight and sedentary, and one normal weight and active. Guess which one was having serious health issues and which one wasn't?
I wouldn't listen when I was young. I didn't have any health issues, not understanding what was quietly happening inside my body and I couldn't feel it and doctors didn't detect it. So did I think I was invincible? That those things were going to happen to other people, not me? Of course, now I have turned it around, but there is damage done that I can't go back and undo. I'm just glad that I have a much better chance of a healthy old age than I did a year ago.
Tomorrow's journal topic: Motivation
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193.2 lb
Lost so far: 54.4 lb.
Still to go: 29.2 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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gaining 0.7 lb a week
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