Greetings fellow Fat Secreteers!
Again it has been quite a while since my lasting posting. I have been on several trips;
First on a family reunion cruise, then hosted several house guests and then with much anticipation began a one-month long camping trip to the Florida Pan-handle. This was all great, but it does
throw some strategy into your weight maintenance schedule.
Skip ahead to this morning. We arrived home yesterday from camping. I weigh myself with much trepidation. 158.2 pounds. Wow! Everything in the world IS ok... The camping trip was a great outdoor retreat. Lots of swimming, fishing, canoeing, hiking, biking, walking, RV maintenance. I continued with 50% of my daily yoga practice.
I am assuming that all the activity plays into my feelings of being fit and strong with possible muscle mass gain. I also assume that the feelings of being over-carbed irregular, bloated, round, cricky and mentally checked-out at times has everything to do with what I was eating.
I posted that I adhered to my diet..... NOT APPLICABLE. It's true. I did not think about caloric counts, portion sizes, but allowed a conscientious regimen of healthy choices to be the foundation to a kind of free snacking allowance, popcorn, corn chips, nuts, energy bars, daily apertifs and a scoop of ice cream whenever I wanted from our handy RV freezer. These foods are treats when I am on a regimen. On our trip they were daily fare.
You see, I was on a downward weight trend before the camping trip. I had resumed my normal eating habits after the cruise and before the camping. I was then at 153 pounds on my way to a 145 goal.
So it's good to be home. Back to resuming my Fat Secret consciousness and to reaching that 145 goal. I have some excellent 'carrots' to help me maintain. Last year my daughter got married. Of all the logistics for a wedding, what I was going to wear was not a problem. That was great. This year my other daughter (the identical twin) is to be married AND an our (exchange student) son, from Germany will also be married. Yes, two weddings coming up. One in late May and the other in late September.
My husband can afford to lose a few too and he will likely lose weight too, since he does this seemingly, by osmosis, when I am on track. He reaches for pretzel bag, I intercept with a small bowl of pretzels for him. His favorite – chili is 80/10, veggies to meat and so on. He loses... and faster than me. I on the other hand I gain weight by my association to him. I know this sounds like a little blame game. I blame myself! When camping, I might say, “Here honey, want some cookies to sandwich your toasted marshmallow?” If he ate it then it gave me kind of permission in a way. A weird working of how people establish intimacy. He he.
Good to be back.
Did anyone hear about the fella who was recently on the national news. He was upwards of 700 pounds and joined a social media based weight loss support group and has lost over 300+ pounds.
I get it! The people connection is more of an important factor in weight loss than we know..
