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13 October 2011
Just checking in to unsubscribe and update my weight. Haven't been here for 3 years I guess. I never checked in regularly or stuck to a particular diet for any length of time.
I've lost almost all the weight I wanted to, and it turned out that what worked for me was falling in love. :) A long lost friend from 20 years ago found me online and we emailed for 3 months before planning to meet. With this new focus (love letters in my inbox!) I just lost my appetite, ate mostly fruit until dinnertime, at which time I just ate what I wanted. I still had seventy pounds to go, but I now had enough (barely) confidence to see him, and we had a lovely romantic long weekend in San Diego, where he proposed. Six months later we got married and now I live in England with him, his daughter, my daughter, and our baby boy. I know it's like a fairy tale and I can still not believe how everything fell into place.
The way I lost the rest of the weight was just to start to cook simply, without recipes, and not much salt. I've realised that we Americans really over-season (salt) our food (which makes us eat more) and we also tend to over-complicate recipes (at least I always did), to the point of it being easier to pick up take out too often, when all I really needed to do is throw a meat and some veggies into a casserole dish with a lid, chuck it into the oven and let it cook. I buy whatever meats are on sale and a bunch of seasonal veggies, and some frozen peas, rotate mashed potatoes or rice or pasta for the starch, and usually don't do anything more complicated than that. I don't use mixes or jars too often just keep stock cubes and lots of cans of chopped tomatoes, olive oil, you know the basics, around. I don't have many rules about what I eat, apart from trying not to eat too much bread. If I have a piece for breakfast then I will only have one piece at lunch, and I never eat bread with dinner anymore. I don't exercise apart from some yoga in the afternoon while baby naps. I do walk twice a week for an hour, very slowly, to the store with the stroller, because I don't have my UK driving license yet. So all of things things combined have contributed to a slow steady weight loss, and now I've finished breastfeeding, it's going even slower, but it's still going. It would probably help if I quit buying a chocolate bar to eat on the way home, but hey it's chocolate and I don't believe in depriving myself anymore. :) Sorry for this disgustingly happy story and I know it's not helpful probably, but I haven't had anything nice happen to me for 15 years, and I am really enjoying myself now and I deserve to! :) I want everyone to feel like this...
Weigh-in:
159.0 lb
lost so far:
73.0 lb
still to go:
20.0 lb
Diet followed N/A
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losing 0.4 lb a week
20 March 2008
Weigh-in:
228.5 lb
lost so far:
3.5 lb
still to go:
89.5 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 3.5 lb a week
19 March 2008
Weigh-in:
229.0 lb
lost so far:
3.0 lb
still to go:
90.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 1.8 lb a week
15 March 2008
I've just been easing into this since Monday, and following more closely the past 2 days. It's such a big improvement over what I've been eating lately, that for now, following it 75% is enough. What I'm doing wrong at the moment is having a grain serving with every meal, and having a 100 calorie choc pudding after dinner. I can let that go eventually if I have to. But it is something small to look forward to right now. So far, this week has felt really good. I'm liking this plan and it's very doable. Doesn't feel like a diet, and my favorite thing is that my family is eating the same meals. Yay!
Weigh-in:
230.0 lb
lost so far:
2.0 lb
still to go:
91.0 lb
Diet followed reasonably well
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losing 1.0 lb a week
05 March 2008
finally ordered the book yesterday, and the cookbook. while i'm waiting for those, i'm looking for a couple of dinner recipes to try this week. i like the idea of this diet, though i don't really know much about the details yet. i like cooking simple meals in the evening, but hopefully this diet is doable without having to cook breakfast & lunch. i am really craving simplicity in what i eat...it's gotten to the point that sometimes even thinking about going grocery shopping stresses me out and makes me feel anxious. i think this is because i've been dieting (or rather planning diets and failing at them) for so long. i just hate thinking about food now, i'm sick of the subject. i want simple healthy great tasting food that doesn't take over my life with planning that my family will eat! rant rant. :)
hey, i just noticed there is a forum here. haven't even looked at it. i'll go check it out now.
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