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Still stuck at 200, and am doing pretty well on the diet, still TEMPTED to eat after dinner but am eating fruit...50 more pounds seems like a million pounds so the temptation creeps in.
My house guests have been VISIBLY loosing weight and the one who took high blood pressure medication is now off her medicine and her blood pressure is low normal due to the low sodium diet. Two of my cousins are off their medications as well for blood pressure and are following the low sodium diet.
Wow!!!! One of the older cousins said "she doesn't know what she is talking about" but his wife made him follow it anyway and now he says "Guess she DID know what she is talking about."
When I first started on the low sodium diet several years ago, food tasted awful, but I kept on finding ways to make my favorite foods without sodium (Frontier Spices has many NO sodium spices but now I make my own up for Tacos, pork sausage etc) but now I can have just about anything I want except for a few things like cheese and processed meats. (I will eat a slice of pizza once in a blue moon and as long as I don';t do it 2 days in a row my feet doesn't swell or get edema)
I just have to keep in mind that I have to burn 3500 calories more than I take in to lose a pound and it isn't going to happen over night...just one mouthful at a time. As long as I can keep that thought in my mind as I look inside the fridge or the plate or bowl, I can do what it takes.
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Hi, Oxdrover! After reading your response to Nidoqueen (above) and this post, I read your profile. (You and I are both in the "Yes ... I have diabetes" group and have a similar amount of weight to lose.)
I've lost 9.5 pounds since May and have 40 pounds to lose to get to a BMI of 24.99. I was down to 205.5 -- so close to ONEderland! -- and then soared back to 220 over the course of 10 days, a combination of cheats and fluid. However, when I consider the long haul, I am very encouraged: I weigh **72 pounds less** now than I did in 2003, at my heaviest.
In your line of work, you've probably seen those plastic models of five pounds of yellow, finely veined fat. Just think: you've lost more than three-and-a-half of those things! You've got this!
03 Jul 18 by member: Miraculum
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