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Reluctant to go along with the "new year new me stuff", this is just a coincidence... I've kind of kicked myself into action for a few reasons. I got weighed new year's day and I've just done that weigh in now, and got weighed again this morning.
It's strange what motivates and doesn't motivate people sometimes, and when it does or doesn't. What motivates me today might not tomorrow. In the past as far as my weight goes and in aspects of my life beyond that, I have lost interest and become disheartened far too easily. Said it more times than I care to remember, knowing what to do and what not to do is easy enough, the willpower is the battle.
About 8 years ago when I was at my heaviest, I used to have quite bad acid reflux, I was being sick quite a lot and it was purely down to diet. I started getting that again in the middle of December and touch wood, since then I haven't felt like it at all. Consumption is my biggest problem, I'm sure I must be doing enough cyclying for just about anyone of my shape and size to lose weight, or at the very least maintain, so long as they're not overdoing it with the crap. And I have been doing that for too long. January's finances don't let me do that, so that helps. I haven't had any alcohol since about 3am on 1st January. I'm not officially doing Dry January but that'd count if I was, it's not January till you wake up... I've reined in the junk so far this year, and I know we're only three weeks in but I've lost a stone which I'm really happy about. Would like to make it 20lb by the end of the month, but we'll see.
I've done Dry January before and had a drink waiting for me at the stroke of midnight at the end of January. Silly really. Right now, I don't feel the same urgency to drink again. Course I like a drink, and I feel like from now on I want it to be a treat. Not just oh it's Monday. Mae West said "Too much of a good thing can be wonderful" and I don't really agree with that... well, not as far as anything diet related goes. For me at least, when something becomes a habit, the pleasure wanes.
I read this article a few weeks ago too http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-42542818. Now for years I've been drinking Pepsi Max and whatever else there is in the "diet" ranges, regularly 2 litres a day, sometimes 4. I always figured that since there's no sugar in it there's no harm in it. I'd never even heard of ghrelin till reading this and I haven't had a carbonated drink since then. Course it's not going to fix everything, and if I looked for a study to debunk this I could probably find one. I feel like it is helping though. I don't know why I drank so much of the stuff, just force of habit I suppose. Been drinking a lot more water and cordial and homemade smoothies. Spinach, avocado and banana with coconut milk and a little drizzle of honey and vanilla extract. There was a time not that long ago that I wouldn't have touched that with a 40ft pole, and while I'm not totally enamoured with it, I am finding it quite refreshing. Wouldn't have occured to me to go for that combination, but I found a recipe online and had all the stuff in so thought why not.. So my fruit intake is pretty much at an all time high right now.
My wife bought this for her kindle the other week too https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tiny-Budget-Cooking-Saving-Tasted-ebook/dp/B01MSAFWZX and we've done some great little things out of it so far. Neither of us are particularly whizzes in the kitchen but we've got the skills for these, and if we have nearly anyone has.
Happy Belated New Year, by the way.
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285.0 lb
Lost so far: 15.0 lb.
Still to go: 65.0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 4.7 lb a week
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