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30 October 2017
I am eating weird today. I don't know what the problem is, but I'm 95% through my allotment for the day -- although I generally top out around 1450 these days -- but I haven't had dinner yet. And I'm carbing. It's very strange. I think it's the change in the weather. It's suddenly freezing, and I think maybe my body is demanding a little heavier nutrition. I just have to roll with it. I've learned over time... If I stay the course and push myself past rough spots, I'll do OK. I just have to be patient.
I want to say something here that I hope will ring a bell with a few of the younger people on FS: There are a whole bunch of us on FS who are post-menopausal women ranging in age from 50-65+. And when you read the profiles, you find that most have been battling our weight for years... since adolescence or even earlier. And for most of us, the problem got much worse when we passed through "the change" and became insulin resistant. For sure there's a certain comfort level knowing that I'm not alone here.. that I'm in good company with a lot of folks who really do know exactly what I'm facing.
But to tell you the truth, I wish I wasn't here. I wish that back when I was in my 30s, I had learned about low-glycemic eating... learned that weighing and measuring everything that goes into your mouth isn't just about counting calories, it's about training yourself to understand what a portion is and to be satisfied with that portion...learned that it is sugar that's the enemy, not fat. If I'd learned those lessons, I wouldn't be here now, because instead of spending my whole adult life gaining and losing the same 50 pounds (which turned into 80 pounds post-menopause), I would have maintained a healthy body and a health body image over the years.
I'm not saying this because I wracked with regret, although I do have regrets. I'm saying this because there are young people on FS who are not "getting it," and who are setting themselves up to yo-yo through that same 50 pounds I've juggled all these years. I look at their profiles and their food diaries, and I see young women:
starving themselves -- eating under 1,000 calories per day
eating tightly calorie controlled diets that are high carb...
in particular, calorie controlled diets that include beer (sometimes 2), lots of instant coffee creamer, which is just sugar
dinners apparently consisting of cauliflower and no protein source
None of these habits is sustainable, which also explains why we often see journaling from these folks beating themselves up for splurges on pizza or fried chicken or chocolate cake, after which they immediately weigh themselves and attribute a gain or no-loss to that pizza splurge, and beat themselves up some more.
I so support all the younger people here on FS -- weight loss is a daunting undertaking at any age. But when weight loss is based on so depriving yourself that you are hungry all the time and resentful about what you are not eating, when your diet undermines your ability to socialize, you are dooming yourself to failure. Been there. Done that.
If you are a young, active person, and you find yourself 25-40 pounds overweight, don't go on some strict, unsustainble diet. Find a new way of eating... a healthy, satisfying way of eating that is sustainable across your lifetime. Build in the way you work, live and socialize. You may lose weight very slowly, but if you lose consistently, keep the weight off, and satisfy your nutritional needs, you will not ever be me... struggling to lose 100 pounds at 60+ years old.
Sorry if I've offended anyone, but I could help noticing some of these issues among the FS people I follow, and it worries me.
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24 October 2017
OK, yeah, so I weighed myself again. This is very unusual for me because I try to stay off the scale so as not to drive myself crazy. But I realized that I generally do not weigh in on Mondays -- I wait until Tuesdays because my diversions on weekends often cause water weight. So now, I'm thrilled because I can post my first weight below 150 since about 1980. Hooray. I never ever thought I would make it this far, and I couldn't have done it without FS. I just couldn't be more thrilled.
Weigh-in:
149.2 lb
lost so far:
84.8 lb
still to go:
7.2 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
(24 comments)
losing 5.6 lb a week
24 October 2017
OK, yeah, so I weighed myself again. This is very unusual for me because I try to stay off the scale so as not to drive myself crazy. But I realized that I generally do not weigh in on Mondays -- I wait until Tuesdays because my diversions on weekends often cause water weight. So now, I'm thrilled because I can post my first weight below 150 since about 1980. Hooray. I never ever thought I would make it this far, and I couldn't have done it without FS. I just couldn't be more thrilled. P.S. Hermione and Carson say Happy Halloween.
Weigh-in:
149.2 lb
lost so far:
84.8 lb
still to go:
7.2 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
(2 comments)
losing 5.6 lb a week
23 October 2017
Should have recorded my weight from Saturday... I think I was dehydrated and I weighed in then at an astonishing 148.8. Today, my official weigh-in is at 150 even, but it's still encouraging, because it suggests that by next week I should see a weigh-in below 150. For me, this is truly miraculous. I haven't weighed in the 140s since the late 70s. I am so hopeful that this really is the permanent change I've sought for my whole adult life.
Meanwhile, I'm back at the gym 3x each week, and next week I hope to start ice skating again. I'm hoping that the renewed exercise will be the jump-start to weight loss that I have been looking for. I have to keep reminding myself: I weight less now than I did one year ago today, and that's what counts!
Weigh-in:
150.0 lb
lost so far:
84.0 lb
still to go:
8.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
(3 comments)
losing 0.4 lb a week
20 October 2017
Get ready... I'm going to whine. The horror of the Cubs last night is just settling in, and now, I'm paying for the chocolate chip cookie I ate on Wednesday afternoon. I thought I could get away with it. It was a large flat cookie, that was definitely more dark chocolate chunks than it was cookie, and I figured that between the chocolate, the butter and the sugar, the actual amount of wheat flour wasn't that great. Apparently, I was wrong. But I was also lucky, because I made it through the entire awful Cubs game last night and a full day of errands, gym, etc. and have only just now been hit with the IBS-effect. I should be ok by morning, and if not I will break down and take an Immodium so that I can do all my planned hob-nobbing over the weekend.
It's hard enough to do without baseball for six months. But it's even harder to face up to never being able to enjoy a real chocolate chip cookie or a piece of chocolate cake ever again. It's very upsetting.
I know there could be a lot worse things that could befall me. But there is such joy in a piece of chocolate cake, that the fact that I can't just go eat one to drown my Cubs sorrows just make everything seem worse.
Sorry. I'm sure I'll be better by tomorrow.
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