For fear of repeating myself I will anyway. If I started at the weight that I started at today, I could not do this again. I have about 25 more pounds to lose and I have seven more weeks on the product. I am not losing any weight this week - I am not sure why, but I did not do anything wrong, so it is just something I have to accept. This week zero weight loss. Maybe next week I will make up for it with 6 pounds. But the point is I was never a big loser. Even at the start I only averaged about 3.5 pounds a week so we know that my metabolism is not the best working thing on the block. But if there was a famine I would survive.
I look back to the beginning and think of my desperation to take the weight off. Different ideas coursed through my head, surgery, being left on a deserted island, checking myself into a weight loss camp. In fact it was the latter that I was seriously considering. If I didn't have any distractions and if I didn't have to worry about what I ate then I could lose the weight. But leaving my family for six months to a year made me a little sad.
However, when all is said and done, that is pretty much what I did except I did it at home. I never had to think about what I ate, I didn't really have any say in what I ate. In a sense. I mean it was my choice to stay on it or not, but I didn't have to choose the food, I didn't have to think can I eat just one? It is the downfall of all diets really. Deciding how much to eat. If you stay strictly on a diet you have to strictly measure everything you eat. You can't guess - because 9 times out of 10 you will be wrong. I don't know how many times last year that I weighed out tuna salad for a sandwich and thought dang that doesn't even cover the bread. I guess that is why I only used one slice of bread. I slice of bread and a serving of tuna salad was 400 calories - imagine that. But before I would use two slices of bread probably three servings and cheese. That would have put that sandwich well over a thousand calories. And yet that is a normal serving.
There are low cal foods that I love, like Aloo gobi, naan, actually most vegetarian indian dishes that aren't made with cream are okay, and I do love Indian food.
I just can't wait til I can eat again.
I look back to the beginning and think of my desperation to take the weight off. Different ideas coursed through my head, surgery, being left on a deserted island, checking myself into a weight loss camp. In fact it was the latter that I was seriously considering. If I didn't have any distractions and if I didn't have to worry about what I ate then I could lose the weight. But leaving my family for six months to a year made me a little sad.
However, when all is said and done, that is pretty much what I did except I did it at home. I never had to think about what I ate, I didn't really have any say in what I ate. In a sense. I mean it was my choice to stay on it or not, but I didn't have to choose the food, I didn't have to think can I eat just one? It is the downfall of all diets really. Deciding how much to eat. If you stay strictly on a diet you have to strictly measure everything you eat. You can't guess - because 9 times out of 10 you will be wrong. I don't know how many times last year that I weighed out tuna salad for a sandwich and thought dang that doesn't even cover the bread. I guess that is why I only used one slice of bread. I slice of bread and a serving of tuna salad was 400 calories - imagine that. But before I would use two slices of bread probably three servings and cheese. That would have put that sandwich well over a thousand calories. And yet that is a normal serving.
There are low cal foods that I love, like Aloo gobi, naan, actually most vegetarian indian dishes that aren't made with cream are okay, and I do love Indian food.
I just can't wait til I can eat again.
Not to mention going to india when you *can* eat again!
ReplyDeleteNot to mention the "turistas" in India which will probably cause you to lose about 10 pounds while doing the "turkey trot".
ReplyDeleteAloo Gobi is tasty as is most Indian food.
TSH will harvest some pheasants while you're in India, so low fat pheasant will be a great treat when you return (even though you're likely going "oh yuccchhhhh1!!!")