Empyrean Engine

I feel awful. I made an unhealthy food choice today. I don't know if that's the cause of my "icky-sicky" feeling, but if not, it's one heck of a coincidence! I do not recommend doing what I did even it it didn't cause the issue. I ate a pre-packaged, nitrate-laden smoked sausage. Nothing else. And it has been my undoing! Ugh! I had nothing but my half sandwich for lunch yesterday at work, and when I got home, I was hangry. I was not just hungry, my hunger was making me mad. I was taking it out on my poor husband. I needed to eat something quickly after taking my oil and waiting an hour. This was the quickest food I could get to. Don't get me wrong. It was delicious. I love these things. But if this is the cause of how I feel right now, I can easily forego consuming these in the future with no love lost. It's not worth the suffering. I feel bloated, but I also feel as though there is grease pulsing through my veins. I can smell the sausage on...

My first short-term goal is within my grasp. I stepped on the scale the first time, and it showed 399.8 lbs. That was the closest I've been to that goal. Subsequent measures put me at 400.6 lbs which is still an excellent number. Maybe tomorrow? I'm hopeful that I will reach it before these initial 30 days of the diet regime are past. Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  400.6 lbs  ⇩  Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  399 lbs I wanted to eat some leftovers last night for brinner, but I could only get through half before I felt done. This was half of the half I didn't finish from another night, so it was a quarter of what I used to eat for brinner. I continued past sated until full because it was so good, but I regretted it soon thereafter. Even still, my weight didn't go up but, like, 1 lb. Before work I ate some pork rinds that have been in my lunch bag for several days. I've just not been hungry enough to eat them. I have also cu...

This keeps getting better and better and better! I'm too excited for words! 402 lbs! Can you believe it? I'm sure you can, but I can't. All methods of losing weight I have ever tried -- and there have been many -- have failed. With Shangri-la , I literally haven't changed anything except for taking the 2 tbsp of oil twice a day, and my weight is dropping. Sure, the oil regimen makes me eat very little, but even when practically starving myself before SLD, I never dropped weight. It also made me ravenous and gain weight from the inevitable binge that followed! This truly is the "magic pill" diet. A no-calorie-counting, eat-anything-you-want, exercise-free diet that actually works! It couldn't be any easier than this unless I had a magic wand to make the fat disappear in one flick of the wrist. I tell my husband my weight whenever I take a new measurement, and I'm very excited when it goes down like this. I'm excited quite often. He doesn...

Oh, happy day! I'm down to my lowest weight so far since I started this Shangri-La Diet ! I almost didn't believe it when I saw 404.8 lbs on the scale, but it came up three times in a row, and my husband witnessed it! I knew it would happen, but I didn't know  it would happen; you know? It's all down hill from here! LOL. I know that's usually a negative thing to say, but this time it's a positive! So here is where I am today: Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  404.8 lbs  ⇩  Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  399 lbs Next stop: 399 lbs or lower. I struggle with whether I should accept 399.* lbs (the asterisk stands for any digit from 0 - 9) or if I should wait until I'm at 399.0 lbs or under to say I've met the goal. I think if I get to 399.9 lbs, that qualifies as under 400, and that's acceptable as reaching the goal of 399 lbs that I set. To meet the short-term goal, I have to make sure I either plateau at 399.* lbs or d...

The past couple of times I saw ~405 lbs on the scale, I immediately jumped back up to ~410 lbs the very next day. That didn't happen this time. It's a small up-blip, and I was hoping it would go down, but it is not dramatic. This SLD method is definitely working! The scale today said 405.4 lbs at least three times in a row. And you know what that means; it means I'm taking it as accurate! Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  405.4 lbs  ⇧   Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  399 lbs Up-blip or not, this is a victory! I'm at work right now. I have already eaten my sandwich, and I shared some of it with a coworker. I haven't eaten anything else, and I'm not feeling hungry right now at all! I am really loving how this SLD method works. I think my set-point has dropped lower than my weight. If so, then I'm going to ride this lowered set-point as far as I can! I don't welcome hunger at all, and I hope it stays away for a while. ...

Yay! 405 lbs today! The scale showed 405 lbs three times in a row, and that is good enough to believe its accuracy. I'm back on track, and hopefully I can continue the downward trend to meet my first short-term goal of 399 lbs. To be under 400 lbs would be miraculous. I can remember the last time I saw my weight under 400 lbs. I was weighed when I was 13, and I was at around 385 lbs then. That's when my parents had me on Weight Watchers and using Slim- Fast and going to the gym regularly. All of that was a futile effort, though. I simply continued to gain and gain and gain. They were so disappointed in me. Well, my mother was; my father loved me regardless. My father's love has always been unconditional. I can't say the same of my mother's. Maybe it was. Maybe she did love me regardless but just wanted me to be thinner and look prettier. I don't know. I'll never really know. Both of my parents are gone now. Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  405...

The scale is my friend again. We had a bit of a falling out, but we're past it. The scale said some things. I sad some things. We both have regrets. Communication is key! Today my scale communicated 407.2 lbs. What a kind thing to say! Thanks, buddy. You'e my favorite friend. Starting weight:  415 lbs Current weight:  407.2 lbs  ⇩  Long-term Goal:  145 lbs Short-term Goal:  399 lbs This is a return to what I was back on Day 9, and then on Days 10 and 11, I dropped dramatically to 406.6 lbs and then to 405 lbs respectively. I'm hoping with all my heart and all my fat that the dramatic drop happens again, and that I stay down and then sink further (to 404.8 lbs and lower? Unseen territory!). NO PIZZA! I was reading  Seth Roberts' SLD forum  for encouragement more than anything, and I discovered a couple of things that have reassured me. Plateaus are not failure, and if you're not losing pounds, you may be losing inches. These two points a...