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I'm SO excited. I'm actually losing weight at the rate of 2 lbs per week now - "normal" for many, but an elusive goal for me. I love thyroid hormones! :) I'm now down just about 33 lbs total (actually over 40 lbs if I go back a year before I started this journey - that's when I started smoking again in my frustrations of being so fat - but quit again last Oct. for the last time). I was just looking over the data and since I didn't record my actual weight when I started this (started the phone app first and was deathly afraid someone might open up the app and see my starting weight!), I looked at Feb. 3rd, when I weighed 169.4. Over the next 15 weeks, I lost 13 1/2 lbs. Then started thyroid hormones on May 18, and over the next 8 weeks leading up to today, I've lost an additional 13 1/2 lbs. Considering I spent just over a week in CA not exercising at all, and not following a great eating plan, I'm actually losing weight at almost twice the rate now. That makes me thrilled to death. Same work, same food plan, same pretty much everything except for a little pill in the morning. What's not to love? So I'm feeling pretty good about myself right now and am savoring that feeling. Unless some major screw-ups happen in the next week, week and a half, I'm on track to be in the 130's!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, really? It's been years since I've seen that number. Not as many years as a lot of people on this board, but a damn long time to me. I think the last time I was in the 130's was in 2004 or '05. I'd quit smoking (weighed about 127 - 130 then), then hurt my knees (trying to take up running!), then had my gallbladder taken out. Between quitting smoking, hurting my knees and not being able to walk/workout much at all, and then the gallbladder surgery, which really seemed to mess up my digestive system for a good year or more - I ended up piling on the weight. And it just kept coming on, week after week until I couldn't take it anymore and started smoking. I lost about 17 lbs over the next few months, but then that stopped, too. So I think it's a metabolism thing that's gone back for years. I may have been borderline all my life, for that matter, but it seems the tipping point was that period above, when I quit smoking and had surgery, and since then, it's been next to impossible to lose much weight at all. So here I am - feeling optimistic about this thing for the first time in such a long time. I love the slope of my graph finally, and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. I also realize the "end" isn't the end of watching what I eat or exercising, but hopefully it'll be the end of the incessant calorie counting of every morsel that goes in my mouth, and knowing that I'm exercising because it makes me feel good and stay strong, rather than to try to burn a few more calories to make that scale go down. I'm actually just about to the point where I can actually point to specific areas on my body that still have fat to lose. :) I mean, other than pointing to everything below the chin, now I can say about a pound here and three pounds to lose on this part of my body, etc. That actually feels good. I remember being at this point years ago.
Diet Calendar Entries for 13 July 2010:
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1222 kcal
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Fat: 33.14g | Prot: 63.75g | Carb: 134.99g.
Breakfast: strawberries, organic flax pumpkin granola, greek style yogurt, Sugar Free French Vanilla Coffee Creamer, English Walnuts, Almonds, Blueberries. Lunch: Cherry Tomatoes, boca burger, multi-grain sandwich thins, sweet hot mustard, low fat mayo. Dinner: Primo Thin Margherita Pizza, cabernet sauvignon. Snacks/Other: watermelon. more...
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2308 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Calisthenics (light, e.g. home exercise) - 15 minutes, Housework - 1 hour, Standing - 1 hour, Desk Work - 3 hours, Circuit Training - 55 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 9 hours and 30 minutes, Dance (fast step, aerobic) - 20 minutes. more...
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