Still Got It, Baby!
The last couple weeks have seemed a little on the rough side. It felt like I had plateaued, as though things had leveled off, forcing me to become even more extreme in the measures I’m taking to lose weight. The hope was that such a time would never come, that the weight would continue to fall off until my goal had been reached, and it was disturbing that so soon in the process I was being forced to go beyond.
Well… I was wrong. This week offered me some good news. Yesterday morning, as I stepped on the scale, it read out the announcement that my weight was three pounds less than it was last week, putting me squarely at 445 pounds. That’s ninety pounds from my highest weight, and sixty two pounds from when I officially started keeping track on here. Not bad, huh? Inching along at one pound at a time feels like a plateau. Three pounds puts me back in the game.
But wait, you might say. Last time you posted, you were 449, not 448! And that was last Thursday! You lost four pounds, Mr. Big Simon, sir!
Well, I suppose an extra pound would make my current smile just a little bit more broad, but it just isn’t the case. The weight I posted last Thursday was actually my weight from the previous Friday, in other words, from two weeks ago. It felt weird posting again the next day, so I just didn’t. Needless to say, my weight was 448 last Friday, three pounds more than it is now.
Oddly enough, I haven’t been back to the gym in a while. Between them moving to a new, larger facility, and a billing mix-up which has since been resolved, the last couple weeks most of my walking has been done at school. Still, it seems to be back to working, and I’ll be back in the gym next week. We’ll see how much it helps.
I get asked often what it is I’m doing to lose weight, and I still point people to the No “S” Diet, though I’m not exactly using that system. I am, however, using a modified version of it, just removing high-starch foods from my diet plan. On top of that, I’m still exercising regularly, through everyday activity. It isn’t nearly as difficult as I convinced myself it would be for so many years, and I’m having a lot of success. Not that I would complain about it coming off faster, but it looks like I’m still right on target for the end-of-2011 goal I set for myself.
Here’s hoping you achieve your goals, too.
I am a chef, certified personal trainer and a mom. I have discovered that the mindset regarding eating is the most important thing, not necessarily the diet methods that don’t fit you. I discovered this when trying to get my toddler to eat and wrote a book about it – Diet Secrets of A Toddler, By Laura Andolini. It is on my website if you are interested. http://www.cooking-for-fitness.com , or amazon.com. I hope you enjoy it!
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