So I still have no cheats. I'm measuring things pretty religiously, but it's not too hard when you are just on protein and veggies. I was having a hard time finishing breakfast (2 eggs plus veggies-either my egg bake or egg "muffins") so I decided I would switch to having it for snack...still no such finishing. I start to get a little nauseous towards the end. Right now I am on 3 meals and 3 products. Next week we add a serving of fruit and then we have the option of sticking with 3 meals and 3 products or all food or some combination. I still enjoy having my shake with coffee in the AM and PM, but I also see the value of not relying on the product for meals so I'm thinking I will go ahead and purchase the 3 each week for a while and see how it goes. I'll plan on cooking but keep the products as back up. Most likely I will keep having my AM shake with coffee. I also think it won't be super easy to eat 6 times a day with work. That's the other reason I plan to just keep buying product. I would say the hardest part, by far, is getting 2 cups of veggies in at each meal. That is a lot of veggies!!! I lost 2lbs this week so I'm still right on track. Hopefully this week will be the same! I'm at about 1100 calories/day now. I keep planning to step up the exercise more, but I'm not super motivated to do much more than walk. Ugh....I think I'll just focus on food for the next couple of weeks and then start rewarding fitness goals. Exercise is what is going to help me keep the weight off and keep my body looking the way I want it to. As far as weight goes I am now 188lbs start weight 242.6-or something like that)...my first sort of "long term" goal is 164. That gets me just into the "healthy weight" BMI. I also have a size goal of 10. I didn't have difficulty really maintaining a 10 in the past, so I think it is reasonable. Right now I am a baggy size 14. :-) I need to buy a couple more pants for work, but can't decide if I should by the 12 or not. Since my weight loss will likely slow down I will probably fit a 12 for a couple months, but maybe I should just stick to a baggy 14. I'll think about it and look at finances a bit more!
My day looks sort of like this for meals:
6/7am Shake with coffee
9/10am Egg bake of egg muffins
1230pm Cottage cheese with baby carrots
230/3pm Optifast fudge graham bar
5pm Pepper stuffed with lean ground beef and tomatoes seasoned with taco seasoning
7/730pm Shake with decaf coffee
Other meals I have enjoyed: Chicken breast baked with peppers and tomatoes and basalmic vinegar, ground turkey breast baked in foil with peppers and spinach and salmon steamed in my steamer with asparagus and chinese seasoning. Oh and salmon steamed with Spinach with lemon. OH! And tonight I made spaghetti squash and combined it with a sauté of chicken breast, garlic, tomato and spinach with italian seasoning. It was pretty good-I couldn't quite finish but that is a theme and I am happy to toss the leftovers (or put them in the pups bowls.)
I'm enjoying cooking again. I would love to have a slice of pizza so I am thinking about doing one of those cauliflower or zucchini crusts and topping with just sliced tomatoes and cheese. I know it isn't the same, but I think it will still be satisfying. :-) I have my eye on my goals still so I'm not very tempted to veer off plan. I'm also slightly afraid that I am being overly confident about all of this. I just feel like I'm getting my health in a good place and I can't live in fear of making mistakes so I'm just enjoying playing with recipes and eating at my table. :-)
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Saturday, February 13, 2016
Saturday, February 6, 2016
Transition!!
I've become a slacker blogger. I've been extremely distracted looking for jobs and daydreaming of Southern California. I really want to get back to sunshine and warm beaches!! I have had 2 great interviews and zero offers. I have a call to make for a local job that would be a completely new job for me on Monday before I miss out on that opportunity. I have until Mid-March to get an offer or I'm just going to have to plan to stay put for another year (my lease will be up and I can't afford to pay the month to month rent on my terrible salary (in comparison to all the other nurses I know here.)
Anyway, if you are checking out this page you probably want to know about transition!! Week one I chose to replace my evening soup with salmon and asparagus and chicken and peppers. It was delicious! I'm definitely full after the 3oz of protein and 2c of veggies. I was nervous to take the first bite-I felt like one of my anorexic patients I used to take care of, but got over it. I had to alter and switch to lunch 2 days because I had an inservice at work Tuesday evening and then class on the Wednesday night. This week I am having 2 eggs + 2 cups of spinach that I baked in muffin tins for breakfast and I'm alternating between another chicken, tomato and pepper with basalmic baked meal and a tilapia and asparagus. So far so good. The eggs are sort of too filling. The first day I couldn't finish them. Yesterday I gagged on the last bite and had to spit it out, but today I finished them. I'm still having the metamucil most days, but I imagine I will stop it next week when we add our third meal. Oh! We had a different facilitator this week who is an RD (I think) and she is now the lead educator and in charge of transition. She made us a sample menu and I have so many new ideas for non meat options. I want to try and just have meat for dinner mostly. One thing she suggested is carrots with cinnamon and greek yogurt or cottage cheese. MMMMMM....And we can add a tiny bit of oil-like 1/2-1tsp. That's really plenty anyway.
I'm not getting quite as much exercise. I guess I am still getting 30min, but I was getting closer to 40-60 for a while. My last 2 weeks of full fast I only lost 1.5-2lbs per week, but last week (after my first week of food) I lost 4.6! Yeah! So my total as of last weeks was 50lbs! I'm extremely happy with that. I am going to Mexico on March 3-7 and I'm hoping to lose another 5-8lbs. That's really just an arbitrary number, but it sounds good. :-) I typically lose weight on vacation so we will see!! As far as goals I have 26lbs to go before my first long term goal of being in the healthy BMI range. After that I plan to just stay on 1200 calories/day until I'm at a comfortable weight-most likely 150-155. That number keeps me comfortably in the healthy BMI range and I have always been comfortable in clothes at that weight.
Next week we have the option of ordering 2 products/day or 3 products/day so I have some thinking to do! I think I want to continue to have a shake for my coffee in the AM and a shake for evening snack. I may just continue to do 3 shakes until Mexico. For the trip I think I will just order powder packets for my am coffee and a bar for a snack at some point. That will be my first real test I guess!
I was worried a bit about wanting to eat constantly once I started eating again, but that hasn't happened yet. I'm still on about 1000 calories/day so maybe when that calorie amt goes up it will change a little. This week I'm going to try and start jogging again. I know it is key to maintenance and I really need to do more than 30min per day of cardio. I also need to add strength training ASAP-which I have been saying for weeks. I like exercise and feeling strong, but maybe I'm afraid I'll be disappointed in my efforts. It may also have been harder to focus on the meal side of things if I had been working out a lot, who knows. I'm glad I seem to be on track and feel great!!
Anyway, if you are checking out this page you probably want to know about transition!! Week one I chose to replace my evening soup with salmon and asparagus and chicken and peppers. It was delicious! I'm definitely full after the 3oz of protein and 2c of veggies. I was nervous to take the first bite-I felt like one of my anorexic patients I used to take care of, but got over it. I had to alter and switch to lunch 2 days because I had an inservice at work Tuesday evening and then class on the Wednesday night. This week I am having 2 eggs + 2 cups of spinach that I baked in muffin tins for breakfast and I'm alternating between another chicken, tomato and pepper with basalmic baked meal and a tilapia and asparagus. So far so good. The eggs are sort of too filling. The first day I couldn't finish them. Yesterday I gagged on the last bite and had to spit it out, but today I finished them. I'm still having the metamucil most days, but I imagine I will stop it next week when we add our third meal. Oh! We had a different facilitator this week who is an RD (I think) and she is now the lead educator and in charge of transition. She made us a sample menu and I have so many new ideas for non meat options. I want to try and just have meat for dinner mostly. One thing she suggested is carrots with cinnamon and greek yogurt or cottage cheese. MMMMMM....And we can add a tiny bit of oil-like 1/2-1tsp. That's really plenty anyway.
I'm not getting quite as much exercise. I guess I am still getting 30min, but I was getting closer to 40-60 for a while. My last 2 weeks of full fast I only lost 1.5-2lbs per week, but last week (after my first week of food) I lost 4.6! Yeah! So my total as of last weeks was 50lbs! I'm extremely happy with that. I am going to Mexico on March 3-7 and I'm hoping to lose another 5-8lbs. That's really just an arbitrary number, but it sounds good. :-) I typically lose weight on vacation so we will see!! As far as goals I have 26lbs to go before my first long term goal of being in the healthy BMI range. After that I plan to just stay on 1200 calories/day until I'm at a comfortable weight-most likely 150-155. That number keeps me comfortably in the healthy BMI range and I have always been comfortable in clothes at that weight.
Next week we have the option of ordering 2 products/day or 3 products/day so I have some thinking to do! I think I want to continue to have a shake for my coffee in the AM and a shake for evening snack. I may just continue to do 3 shakes until Mexico. For the trip I think I will just order powder packets for my am coffee and a bar for a snack at some point. That will be my first real test I guess!
I was worried a bit about wanting to eat constantly once I started eating again, but that hasn't happened yet. I'm still on about 1000 calories/day so maybe when that calorie amt goes up it will change a little. This week I'm going to try and start jogging again. I know it is key to maintenance and I really need to do more than 30min per day of cardio. I also need to add strength training ASAP-which I have been saying for weeks. I like exercise and feeling strong, but maybe I'm afraid I'll be disappointed in my efforts. It may also have been harder to focus on the meal side of things if I had been working out a lot, who knows. I'm glad I seem to be on track and feel great!!
Saturday, January 23, 2016
4 More Days To Transition!!!
So my grand total on Thursday was 45.8lbs. Whoop! I lost 2lbs this week and 3 the week before. I got lazy on the blogging because nothing too exciting or life changing has happened. :-)
Well, potentially. I had a job interview in San Diego that I would love, but I'm waiting for a response. They send an email to references and have them fill out a short questionnaire which my references all did by Friday. So they should have had it all by Tuesday (it was MLK so no one worked Monday) so I would think they should have a decision, but I suppose who knows what is happening. The trouble with nursing is that it is hard to get in to new places with all the unions even when you know people! I work in pediatrics and really being in the SF Bay Area and single can only afford to work for the bigger institutions. The same issues exist in the south it seems. Darn unions (yes, I know they do their job to protect workers, but I just want a foot in a door!) I applied for even more jobs in the area here and under the advice of many people I even applied for jobs that are not in pediatrics! We shall see. I would still really love to go south if they will have me!
We got all of our transition information this week. Basically my program adds in 3oz of lean protein and 2 cups of veggies every week for 3 weeks and then you are allowed to either stay on 3 Optifast products plus 3 meals of about 150-250 calories each (depending on your goals and weight loss, etc) forever if you want. If you don't want product anymore you just aim for 1100-1200 cal/day until you reach your goal. At the end we will do RMR testing with calorimetry to see what we need to eat to sustain ourselves. I'm excited for that, because I have always been curious! I think it will be a great tool to have in our packets. They say if you have been overweight and loose a lot of weight that your RMR stays about 20% slower than a person of the same size and build who has never been overweight. My question is does it matter how long you have been overweight? Or how much you have to lose? I feel like then every person who gains excess weight in a pregnancy and loses it will always deal with having to eat less or move more. Science is crazy. :-)
At any rate I am ready to stop having soup for dinner. They want us to pick one meal and essentially limit the choices as well. So I picked dinner and I plan to add in salmon and chicken (or possibly tofu-haven't quite decided that yet) and for veggies I'll buy asparagus and maybe peppers. I also thought maybe I could just buy a big variety of veggies and just steam them all together at the beginning of the week. So I guess I still have some planning to do before Thursday! I do plan to stop at Sprouts on the way home from weight management class on Wednesday night so that I will have food ready at home Thursday evening! I thought about cooking, but I think that will be too much after class so I will maybe chop some veggies and defrost my salmon overnight-basically prep so I can just steam my meal when I get home Thursday. They also want us to do bland food. I can see why, but I have been adding spices to my soups so we will see how long that lasts. :-)
All very exciting!
Well, potentially. I had a job interview in San Diego that I would love, but I'm waiting for a response. They send an email to references and have them fill out a short questionnaire which my references all did by Friday. So they should have had it all by Tuesday (it was MLK so no one worked Monday) so I would think they should have a decision, but I suppose who knows what is happening. The trouble with nursing is that it is hard to get in to new places with all the unions even when you know people! I work in pediatrics and really being in the SF Bay Area and single can only afford to work for the bigger institutions. The same issues exist in the south it seems. Darn unions (yes, I know they do their job to protect workers, but I just want a foot in a door!) I applied for even more jobs in the area here and under the advice of many people I even applied for jobs that are not in pediatrics! We shall see. I would still really love to go south if they will have me!
We got all of our transition information this week. Basically my program adds in 3oz of lean protein and 2 cups of veggies every week for 3 weeks and then you are allowed to either stay on 3 Optifast products plus 3 meals of about 150-250 calories each (depending on your goals and weight loss, etc) forever if you want. If you don't want product anymore you just aim for 1100-1200 cal/day until you reach your goal. At the end we will do RMR testing with calorimetry to see what we need to eat to sustain ourselves. I'm excited for that, because I have always been curious! I think it will be a great tool to have in our packets. They say if you have been overweight and loose a lot of weight that your RMR stays about 20% slower than a person of the same size and build who has never been overweight. My question is does it matter how long you have been overweight? Or how much you have to lose? I feel like then every person who gains excess weight in a pregnancy and loses it will always deal with having to eat less or move more. Science is crazy. :-)
At any rate I am ready to stop having soup for dinner. They want us to pick one meal and essentially limit the choices as well. So I picked dinner and I plan to add in salmon and chicken (or possibly tofu-haven't quite decided that yet) and for veggies I'll buy asparagus and maybe peppers. I also thought maybe I could just buy a big variety of veggies and just steam them all together at the beginning of the week. So I guess I still have some planning to do before Thursday! I do plan to stop at Sprouts on the way home from weight management class on Wednesday night so that I will have food ready at home Thursday evening! I thought about cooking, but I think that will be too much after class so I will maybe chop some veggies and defrost my salmon overnight-basically prep so I can just steam my meal when I get home Thursday. They also want us to do bland food. I can see why, but I have been adding spices to my soups so we will see how long that lasts. :-)
All very exciting!
Saturday, January 9, 2016
2 more weeks!!!
Sort of...I think I mentioned that I count the week "over" for this journey when it starts. :-)
Anyway I am halfway through Week 14 at this point. Still ZERO cheats! I am really proud of that. However, I do agree that it is pointless to beat yourself up if you do cheat. On the other hand I don't think it is OK to give yourself permission to cheat just because nothing bad happened this time. First of all, as a nurse who has worked with patients at risk for referring syndrome I have seen electrolytes go nuts when you re-feed too fast. It's not a good thing! Also, the fact that nothing showed up on the scale this week doesn't mean that what you ate today won't show up next week! I let myself get away with binging for too many (6) years because I would have a "bad day" and then I wouldn't have a gain on the scale so I allowed it to continue. And then in 2 weeks I would be up another 2-3lbs and all those 2-3lbs added up to 100! So, for me personally I need to remember that cheating is only cheating myself and that there is a reason I gained all this weight in the first place. I will use that going forward into maintenance as well. I was always a healthy weight and when I think back during those healthy years I would MAYBE once a month eat a little extra but in general I didn't overindulge. I think one thing that helped me stay there is that I lived with a mother who was overweight and had several extended family members that were obese. I never thought I would join them in those ranks. Then, I became a travel nurse, worked crazy rotating shifts and was mostly surrounded by people of healthy weights. Sounds silly, but I truly think that was part of it-I just stopped paying attention! Of course, our facilitator has brought that up a few times-that people who are a healthy weight actually do think about what they are putting in their moths even though you don't hear them do it. :-) Lessons learned, right??
So this week I weighed in at 200.8lbs! So, that means this Thursday I will be under 200 for the first time since January 2008. Thank goodness. The last time I remember weighing myself besides right before I went to Boston. I remember because I went to Seattle that Sept and weighed in at 198 and I remember telling someone that I was dangerously close to the next century of weight and that I was terrified of getting there. I met the same people in Vegas that January and I was still the same weight. So anyway, I am very excited to hit 197 and feel like I am losing the 35 or so pounds that I gained on night shift in San Diego. :-) Sometimes I think back to my time in San Diego and it makes me sad that I left when I did, but I am so glad I went home and spent the next year with my best friend as she was dealing with her cancer and later passed away. It is frustrating though that when I left SD I was finally getting active again! Ah well. I'm finally get back there again!!
Today I did my C25K run. It was week 8 day 1 and was a 27min run. I was finally under a 15min pace for the run portion and I know it would have been slightly faster without the pups, but I'm not ready to leave them behind. ;-) They enjoy it too much. Plus Lucy still has weight to lose. Ha! And Lola just needs the exercise. She is still crazy after our 40min (total with the warm up and cool down.) I think I will be back in the 12min/mile range soon enough. And that is probably where I will hang out forever. :-) If anyone is thinking of doing it, I just want to say that you can run at any weight! Of course you should probably be walking first, but when I started this my run was a shuffle, literally. It was not what anyone would ever consider a run, and actually it was probably slower than my walk. BUT it uses different muscles and it def got my heart rate up higher. If you do it right you aren't necessarily at risk for more injuries (all about form and not landing on a straight leg.) I actually recommend wearing a chest strap HR monitor to force yourself to only go at a pace that isn't too much and to follow an interval program. It has worked great for me this time. And worked wonderfully for me in the 2001 when I first started running!
Ok, that's it! Next 2 weeks of group are all about food and transition so they should be really interesting!
Anyway I am halfway through Week 14 at this point. Still ZERO cheats! I am really proud of that. However, I do agree that it is pointless to beat yourself up if you do cheat. On the other hand I don't think it is OK to give yourself permission to cheat just because nothing bad happened this time. First of all, as a nurse who has worked with patients at risk for referring syndrome I have seen electrolytes go nuts when you re-feed too fast. It's not a good thing! Also, the fact that nothing showed up on the scale this week doesn't mean that what you ate today won't show up next week! I let myself get away with binging for too many (6) years because I would have a "bad day" and then I wouldn't have a gain on the scale so I allowed it to continue. And then in 2 weeks I would be up another 2-3lbs and all those 2-3lbs added up to 100! So, for me personally I need to remember that cheating is only cheating myself and that there is a reason I gained all this weight in the first place. I will use that going forward into maintenance as well. I was always a healthy weight and when I think back during those healthy years I would MAYBE once a month eat a little extra but in general I didn't overindulge. I think one thing that helped me stay there is that I lived with a mother who was overweight and had several extended family members that were obese. I never thought I would join them in those ranks. Then, I became a travel nurse, worked crazy rotating shifts and was mostly surrounded by people of healthy weights. Sounds silly, but I truly think that was part of it-I just stopped paying attention! Of course, our facilitator has brought that up a few times-that people who are a healthy weight actually do think about what they are putting in their moths even though you don't hear them do it. :-) Lessons learned, right??
So this week I weighed in at 200.8lbs! So, that means this Thursday I will be under 200 for the first time since January 2008. Thank goodness. The last time I remember weighing myself besides right before I went to Boston. I remember because I went to Seattle that Sept and weighed in at 198 and I remember telling someone that I was dangerously close to the next century of weight and that I was terrified of getting there. I met the same people in Vegas that January and I was still the same weight. So anyway, I am very excited to hit 197 and feel like I am losing the 35 or so pounds that I gained on night shift in San Diego. :-) Sometimes I think back to my time in San Diego and it makes me sad that I left when I did, but I am so glad I went home and spent the next year with my best friend as she was dealing with her cancer and later passed away. It is frustrating though that when I left SD I was finally getting active again! Ah well. I'm finally get back there again!!
Today I did my C25K run. It was week 8 day 1 and was a 27min run. I was finally under a 15min pace for the run portion and I know it would have been slightly faster without the pups, but I'm not ready to leave them behind. ;-) They enjoy it too much. Plus Lucy still has weight to lose. Ha! And Lola just needs the exercise. She is still crazy after our 40min (total with the warm up and cool down.) I think I will be back in the 12min/mile range soon enough. And that is probably where I will hang out forever. :-) If anyone is thinking of doing it, I just want to say that you can run at any weight! Of course you should probably be walking first, but when I started this my run was a shuffle, literally. It was not what anyone would ever consider a run, and actually it was probably slower than my walk. BUT it uses different muscles and it def got my heart rate up higher. If you do it right you aren't necessarily at risk for more injuries (all about form and not landing on a straight leg.) I actually recommend wearing a chest strap HR monitor to force yourself to only go at a pace that isn't too much and to follow an interval program. It has worked great for me this time. And worked wonderfully for me in the 2001 when I first started running!
Ok, that's it! Next 2 weeks of group are all about food and transition so they should be really interesting!
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Halfway there!!!
And by halfway I just mean halfway through with the full fast or "active weight loss" phase. Yeah!! It feels good to be there!
So here is a summary:
Optifast products: 6 per day...I typically have 4 shakes, 1 bar and 1 soup
Cheats: ZERO!!!!!!!
Water: at least 64oz per day, often times 72oz plus the fluid from the shakes. :-)
Weight at start: 241.6
Todays weight: 215.8
Total weight lost: 25.8lbs
3.7lbs/week
Weeks of product: 7
I'm somewhat surprised that I'm averaging 3.7lbs/week. I thought I would stay closer to the 2-3lb range. I do know that I lost more the first week so it ups the average, but I guess I thought it would even out by then. :-) Yeah!
I took the dogs on a walk this morning. I can't seem to make myself run/walk on Thursdays. I just don't get enough sleep because I need a couple hours to wind down at night and I don't think I get it when I don't get home til 8. Ah well. As long as I walk! I also parked at the free lot for the hospital that is about a 10min walk away. Doing both of those things brought me very close to 10000 steps per day so I think I'll keep that up.
I still feel like I should be more nervous to either go back to food or maintain, but I'm really just focusing on getting the job done! I've lost weight counting calories before so I'm not too worried about that part especially since I think I will have momentum going into it. As far as maintenance goes, I'll see when I get there!
A running coach came to talk to us last night. I've seen his car around town and I've been curious. During the maintenance phase Kaiser has lifestyle courses. One is going to be a running group. I have a feeling I'll be joining that one.
Other than that not much is going on. I suppose that's a good thing!!
So here is a summary:
Optifast products: 6 per day...I typically have 4 shakes, 1 bar and 1 soup
Cheats: ZERO!!!!!!!
Water: at least 64oz per day, often times 72oz plus the fluid from the shakes. :-)
Weight at start: 241.6
Todays weight: 215.8
Total weight lost: 25.8lbs
3.7lbs/week
Weeks of product: 7
I'm somewhat surprised that I'm averaging 3.7lbs/week. I thought I would stay closer to the 2-3lb range. I do know that I lost more the first week so it ups the average, but I guess I thought it would even out by then. :-) Yeah!
I took the dogs on a walk this morning. I can't seem to make myself run/walk on Thursdays. I just don't get enough sleep because I need a couple hours to wind down at night and I don't think I get it when I don't get home til 8. Ah well. As long as I walk! I also parked at the free lot for the hospital that is about a 10min walk away. Doing both of those things brought me very close to 10000 steps per day so I think I'll keep that up.
I still feel like I should be more nervous to either go back to food or maintain, but I'm really just focusing on getting the job done! I've lost weight counting calories before so I'm not too worried about that part especially since I think I will have momentum going into it. As far as maintenance goes, I'll see when I get there!
A running coach came to talk to us last night. I've seen his car around town and I've been curious. During the maintenance phase Kaiser has lifestyle courses. One is going to be a running group. I have a feeling I'll be joining that one.
Other than that not much is going on. I suppose that's a good thing!!
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Any new blogs out there??
When I was looking into this program I was on a hunt for blogs, specifically success stories. I read the ones that I could find, but I'm finding that this blog doesn't even show up on searches. Does anyone know how to search in a better way?? Or maybe there really aren't new blogs? I think what is hard about the old ones is that many stop at some point after the blogger enters maintenance and then starts gaining weight. I'm sure it would be hard to continue to blog at that point. I hope I succeed and a year after maintenance I start blogging about all of the benefits to losing the weight and keeping it off! Or something similar!
If anyone out there is reading this and has found any other newer blogs that appear inspiring let me know!
After Wednesday I will be halfway through full fast!! If I go buy my current weight I am in the upper 210s and will hopefully cross below 215 in a week and a half or so! I know I shouldn't set deadlines for weight loss goals, but I'm thinking of it more like a prediction. :-) I'm really hoping to have lost half of the weight by end of phase 1! If I can dip below 200 before transition starts I will be super happy. I remember a few years ago after I left my travel nurse assignment in San Diego I went to Seattle with some of my nurse friends from SD and I told one of them that I was horrified that my weight had ballooned up to almost a new "century." That number was 190-something. I remember being devastated and miserable. I thought my weight would never get that high. Previously when I had thought I was "fat" my weight was around 165-175 which really isn't too far into the overweight range for my height of 5'8". I never thought I would enter the obese category. I feel like I have lost the last 5 or so years of my life being at this weight because it has held me back from doing things I enjoy and meeting new people in the cities I traveled to. Even here it has kept me from going out and enjoying what I want to! There is so much to love about the bay area and I need to get out and explore more! Anyway, I didn't come here to write about any of that. And I can't think about what I haven't done, but I can focus on taking this 1 day at a time and think about all of the physical things I want to do when I meet my goals! I even took my bike out the other day (to ride to the movies) and I was so much more comfortable on it then 20lbs ago. I'm still a chicken and afraid to fall, but feeling lighter definitely helped!!
Signing off...keep up the hard work and let me know if you know of any blogs for people starting out on this journey or recently transitioned and successfully maintaining!!
Angie
If anyone out there is reading this and has found any other newer blogs that appear inspiring let me know!
After Wednesday I will be halfway through full fast!! If I go buy my current weight I am in the upper 210s and will hopefully cross below 215 in a week and a half or so! I know I shouldn't set deadlines for weight loss goals, but I'm thinking of it more like a prediction. :-) I'm really hoping to have lost half of the weight by end of phase 1! If I can dip below 200 before transition starts I will be super happy. I remember a few years ago after I left my travel nurse assignment in San Diego I went to Seattle with some of my nurse friends from SD and I told one of them that I was horrified that my weight had ballooned up to almost a new "century." That number was 190-something. I remember being devastated and miserable. I thought my weight would never get that high. Previously when I had thought I was "fat" my weight was around 165-175 which really isn't too far into the overweight range for my height of 5'8". I never thought I would enter the obese category. I feel like I have lost the last 5 or so years of my life being at this weight because it has held me back from doing things I enjoy and meeting new people in the cities I traveled to. Even here it has kept me from going out and enjoying what I want to! There is so much to love about the bay area and I need to get out and explore more! Anyway, I didn't come here to write about any of that. And I can't think about what I haven't done, but I can focus on taking this 1 day at a time and think about all of the physical things I want to do when I meet my goals! I even took my bike out the other day (to ride to the movies) and I was so much more comfortable on it then 20lbs ago. I'm still a chicken and afraid to fall, but feeling lighter definitely helped!!
Signing off...keep up the hard work and let me know if you know of any blogs for people starting out on this journey or recently transitioned and successfully maintaining!!
Angie
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