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Each time I lose another pound and chart it on my 4-year graph I am heartened to see that my new way of thinking about leading a healthy lifestyle is changing the way I look and feel. After the initial loss of 30 pounds, I was up and down a bit, getting as low as 138, then wandering up to 146, though never back to 180 where I started, and certainly not the 210, my all-time high.
But changing the default setting to a healthy, aware, active lifestyle pays off in the long run. When I decided to do a graph, recording my weight every other week, each year plotted over the former in a different color, I noticed that right after Christmas every year, I was the same weight, 146. The holidays were interfering with my success, destroying my accomplishments, setting me back, making it take longer to reach my goal.
Seeing that helped me understand that I had control of the situation and motivated me to renew my commitment. Each party or food event got me started, and then I felt I had failed and would eat more later. So this year, 1) I'm starting out at my lowest weight since I was 28, 2) I'm going to enjoy the parties and maybe do more exercise to compensate for the extra calories, and 3) I'm not going to call myself bad for feasting when the feasting is good.
I don't have to become an over-eater just because I over-ate. I fall back on a healthy lifestyle instead of back on a disastrous one. I am not in a hurry to lose the weight because I plan to maintain this lifestyle for as long as my body will allow.
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134.0 lb
Lost so far: 35.0 lb.
Still to go: 9.0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 0.5 lb a week
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