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28 August 2010

Weigh-in: 145.0 lb lost so far: 25.0 lb still to go: 15.0 lb Diet followed reasonably well
   add comment losing 1.7 lb a week

07 August 2010

Yay!!!! I can't believe it!!! I lost a few more pounds this week even though I have not been able to exercise because of my back!! Hit 150lbs! That's a whopping 20 lbs in 5 weeks and I feel great!!! My stomach is starting to noticeable thin down as well as my face. I hope the other 20 lbs. of weight will be gone within this next month but I don't see that happening. Starting back at work on Monday so I'm not sure how that's going to be for me since I started my diet during the summer break. At home, I was able to really concentrate on my weight loss but I'm not sure if I can do that at work. OR....maybe I won't even be thinking much about the diet and be so busy at work that I won't be thinking about my next meal and the pounds will keep coming off. I don't know. I hope it will be easier at work than harder. We'll see...
Weigh-in: 150.0 lb lost so far: 20.0 lb still to go: 20.0 lb Diet followed 100%
   (2 comments) losing 9.3 lb a week

05 August 2010

04 August 2010

I have been dieting since July 3, 2010. I went to my doctor because my cholesterol was at 254 and my liver enzymes were high. I knew I had to go on a diet and loose the extra weight I had put on ever the last 5 years. My mother was hospitalized in June with the beginning stages of a heart attack and then diagnosed with congestive heart failure. She is only 58 years old. I did not want that to be my fate so I decided to go on a diet and get healthy! My doctor gave me a prescription for Phentermine 30mg to use as a tool to help control my appetite along with cutting calories and exercising. I was told by my doctor to drink 2 cans of Slim Fast a day to replace the vitamins and minerals that I would no longer be getting from the large amounts of food that I was consuming each day. I was to have one for breakfast and one for lunch. I was also told to eat a lean 500 calorie meal for dinner and if I wanted to snack on something then I could have plain popcorn. My doctor also said that I was not to eat anything after 7 pm. I was also told to drink a lot of water like Propel since they have added vitamins and minerals to them. Plus they taste good too! I was advised that I also need to take a multi vitamin, a fish oil supplement and extra calcium each day. It was a big adjustment for the first few weeks. My stomach didn't know if it was hungry or full! The feelings of hunger and being full were something that I had to really pay attention to and learn how they felt. I did this by thinking about the last time I ate and whether I "should" be hungry or if I was just bored and wanted to eat. My body had its' own bad habits that it had learned over the years of unconscientious eating that I did each day. It took a few weeks to start to control those bad habits and adjust to the new amount of food I was consuming. Things have pretty much leveled out right now. I still get cravings and feel hungry even though I am taking the appetite suppressant. I just don't feel like I have to eat a full plateful of food and then go back for seconds anymore. I also do not have the urge to give into cravings anymore. Yeah, I would love to eat a full bowl of mint chocolate chip ice cream, but now, I am totally satisfied with two or three ounces of frozen yogurt once a week. There is another great side effect of eating healthy, I do not crave the junk food or fast food that I used to love to eat! Mcdonalds just doesn't sound as good to me as it used to. So, when I drive by one, I am able to keep driving and not feel like I am missing out on anything. The day I started my diet, I bought an eliptical exerciser off of Craig's List. The next day, I got on it for the first time. I wasn't even able to go for five minutes straight on the lowest setting because my thighs just couldn't take it! Over the next day or two though, I was able to go for half an hour. Each day, I was able to spen more time on it. I love the eliptical because I didn't get aching muscles for using it or pain in my joints, knees or back. It also does not cause me to have trouble breathing from my asthma. It has been the first and only exercise that I have routinely done in my life. So, I exercise almost everyday for about 30 minutes to an hour and burn about 100 to 200 calories depending on how fast I go. Aweek ago, I put in a movie and used the eliptical for an hour and forty minutes and burned 600 calories! I kept looking at the readout and said to myself "I'll go 'till I reach 200 calories" That came and went and I said "ok, 250" then "300". I kept setting these short term goals until I burned 600 calories and the movie ended! I was really proud of myself. I went back after 26 days to check in with my doctor. We were all so happy to see that I had lost 14 pounds in only 26 days! It was a lot of work but I did it. My doctors plan is to keep me on the phentermine for the next two months and then change me over to a shot that is supposed to help me with my appetite. I will take this shot for another six months. I told her that her plan sounded great to me because although I was actively trying to change my mental relationship with food, I still needed more time to change a lifetime of food addictions that every cell in my body was used to. She asked me that day how much more weight I thought I wanted to loose. "ten more puonds?" she said. No way! I told her I wanted to be back to the size I was when I was in high school. I was a healthy and lean size 6/7 which was about 130 to 135 pounds. I know I can reach this size goal because I was that size AFTER having three children. I can't blame my wieght on old "baby fat". I have noticed a big change in my body size already. I am now wearing a size 8-10 in pants from a size 12 and a size large in shirts from a size extra large. So here I am today with another two pounds lost since July 28th. That puts me at 154 pounds!I really think that this time I can do it. I am still afraid that the pounds will come back after I am off of the appetite suppressant because I don't know if my body will be satisfied with only eating 1200-1600 calories a day. My hope is that I will be able to cook and eat low calorie foods that are healthy and satisfying for me. Today I went on my computer to find recepies for 400 calorie meals. That's how I came across this website. I have spent most of the day looking a recepies, tracking my weight and the food and exercise that I have done. It has been really fun. I even invited my daught-in-law to join with me. She is also dieting with the phentermine and has lost 34 pounds in the last few months! She actually gave me the idea about the medication. I am so glad she did because now I know that I am taking care of myself and that feels great! Although there are inherent risks to taking phentermine, they do not outweigh the risks of what I was doing to myself by eating poorly and caring forty pounds of extra weight around. My heart and liver were at risk because of my life style. I did not want to be like my mother and be having a heart attack and have heart failure at 58. So, I will take the risk with the medications for a few months until I am able to conquer my food and appetite demons. This journey has been trying but has also given me a new outlook on my health and life!

04 August 2010

Weigh-in: 154.0 lb lost so far: 16.0 lb still to go: 24.0 lb Diet followed N/A
   add comment losing 2.0 lb a week

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