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 drop lower the day after to keep it in the status of goal achieved, but if I can reach it, I'm sure I can keep it, lower it, or reach it again rather soon after seeing it. I'm remaining hopeful, confident, and undeterred.
Also, I think I see my face slimming down just a bit. I love it. I think my thinner face is so much cuter. Below is a picture of me with a bit of a thinner face compared with a more recent picture for the comparison. I think you will agree:
I can be this adorable again!
This is a picture from today, September 10, 2017:
I've got a 5-head, don't I? Heh. Okay. That's enough of that.
I can't shake this feeling in my tummy. It's the excited emotional feeling that could easily be mistaken for hunger if I wasn't attuned to its tricks. You can't trick me hunger monster! I know you now!
I want to share my excitement with everyone, but I'm keeping this hush-hush for now. Only my husband (and this blog that no one reads) knows I'm working on losing this weight. I want to shock everyone when I drop it all.
I started with 270 lbs to lose. Right now I'm 10.2 lbs down with 259.8 lbs to go. I can do this!
259.8 lbs to go graph:
On a side note, I'm feeling very strong appetite suppression (AS) today. The forum posts I read about this said that while AS may be strong from the start for some people, others may have to wait as long as 6 weeks before it really kicks in. For me, it seems that 3 weeks is the magic number.
As we were going to work tonight, I commented on AS to my husband. It's so strange barely eating anything at all, and still feeling like taking 2 tbsp of oil would be too much food. I struggled getting it in because of how full I feel, but I did it. The struggle was not with the consistency or oiliness of the oil -- that's what I struggled with the first week -- but with the fact that I felt I couldn't possibly eat anything.
I've been at work for a couple of hours, and I have some growling in my stomach. I'm feeling hungry, but it's not insatiable hunger. I can ignore this for a while if I want to. I also know that I can eat my sandwich at any time and quell the hunger. I probably should. I waited long enough to confirm that this is actual hunger and not emotion masquerading as hunger.
If I understand it correctly, this hunger means my weight may be lower than my set-point right now. I wonder if I dropped lower that 404.8 lbs. If I eat, it will raise it up a bit to, like, 406 lbs or 407 lbs, but it will go back down after a few hours, and it may be even lower than it was before I ate. That's how it's been working.
I have been weighing myself several times a day to see how my body reacts to what I do. When I eat something, I gain a bit. Then I let it sit or I use the bathroom, and it goes down again. This takes several hours. Also, I am heavier at "night" (after work) than I am in the "morning" (before work). My "morning" is around 6:00 PM in the evening, and my "night" is after 4:30 AM.
I record my lowest weight of the day to keep myself motivated, but I make sure that I see that number at least three times before I accept it. My husband thinks I'm being silly, but sometimes the first reading is 3 lbs higher than the next three readings that are all the same.
To test it, I also make sure to try standing in different positions each time -- feet a bit forward, feet a bit back, balance on my heels, balance on the balls of my feet -- and if I see the same number each time I do it, that's the number I keep. I find that when I accidentally stand on the edge or on the number display, that's when it reads some strange number that makes no sense.
I want to be as accurate as possible. It makes me feel better, and it keeps me motivated. The net result is that my husband thinks I'm a bit crazy, but he accepts my obsessions as part of my charm! I'm a Type-A, but I'm his Type-A, and he loves me!
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 drop lower the day after to keep it in the status of goal achieved, but if I can reach it, I'm sure I can keep it, lower it, or reach it again rather soon after seeing it. I'm remaining hopeful, confident, and undeterred.
Also, I think I see my face slimming down just a bit. I love it. I think my thinner face is so much cuter. Below is a picture of me with a bit of a thinner face compared with a more recent picture for the comparison. I think you will agree:
I can be this adorable again!
This is a picture from today, September 10, 2017:
I've got a 5-head, don't I? Heh. Okay. That's enough of that.
I can't shake this feeling in my tummy. It's the excited emotional feeling that could easily be mistaken for hunger if I wasn't attuned to its tricks. You can't trick me hunger monster! I know you now!
I want to share my excitement with everyone, but I'm keeping this hush-hush for now. Only my husband (and this blog that no one reads) knows I'm working on losing this weight. I want to shock everyone when I drop it all.
I started with 270 lbs to lose. Right now I'm 10.2 lbs down with 259.8 lbs to go. I can do this!
259.8 lbs to go graph:
On a side note, I'm feeling very strong appetite suppression (AS) today. The forum posts I read about this said that while AS may be strong from the start for some people, others may have to wait as long as 6 weeks before it really kicks in. For me, it seems that 3 weeks is the magic number.
As we were going to work tonight, I commented on AS to my husband. It's so strange barely eating anything at all, and still feeling like taking 2 tbsp of oil would be too much food. I struggled getting it in because of how full I feel, but I did it. The struggle was not with the consistency or oiliness of the oil -- that's what I struggled with the first week -- but with the fact that I felt I couldn't possibly eat anything.
I've been at work for a couple of hours, and I have some growling in my stomach. I'm feeling hungry, but it's not insatiable hunger. I can ignore this for a while if I want to. I also know that I can eat my sandwich at any time and quell the hunger. I probably should. I waited long enough to confirm that this is actual hunger and not emotion masquerading as hunger.
If I understand it correctly, this hunger means my weight may be lower than my set-point right now. I wonder if I dropped lower that 404.8 lbs. If I eat, it will raise it up a bit to, like, 406 lbs or 407 lbs, but it will go back down after a few hours, and it may be even lower than it was before I ate. That's how it's been working.
I have been weighing myself several times a day to see how my body reacts to what I do. When I eat something, I gain a bit. Then I let it sit or I use the bathroom, and it goes down again. This takes several hours. Also, I am heavier at "night" (after work) than I am in the "morning" (before work). My "morning" is around 6:00 PM in the evening, and my "night" is after 4:30 AM.
I record my lowest weight of the day to keep myself motivated, but I make sure that I see that number at least three times before I accept it. My husband thinks I'm being silly, but sometimes the first reading is 3 lbs higher than the next three readings that are all the same.
To test it, I also make sure to try standing in different positions each time -- feet a bit forward, feet a bit back, balance on my heels, balance on the balls of my feet -- and if I see the same number each time I do it, that's the number I keep. I find that when I accidentally stand on the edge or on the number display, that's when it reads some strange number that makes no sense.
I want to be as accurate as possible. It makes me feel better, and it keeps me motivated. The net result is that my husband thinks I'm a bit crazy, but he accepts my obsessions as part of my charm! I'm a Type-A, but I'm his Type-A, and he loves me!
Comments
Post a Comment