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2017 SEP 11 -- Day 23

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't always seem as excited as I'd like him to be or expect him to be, and when I asked him about it, he made a good point.

If we are excited all the time, we may run out of excitement! I know it's silly the way it was said, but it's not entirely silly. Basically, I'm setting the excitement bar pretty low. 402 lbs is a great change in the proper direction, but I'm still very far from my ultimate goal.

Anyhow, take a look:

Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 402 lbs ⇩ 
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 399 lbs

 I'm at 13 lbs down of 270 lbs; I have 257 lbs to go.

I need one of those fancy ticker things that tracks my progress. The only ones I have managed to find were branded, so I may need to code my own using Javascript. It's do-able, it just takes effort and time. Who has any of that just lying around, though? Certainly not me.

I was so very sick yesterday. My stomach was feeling really bloated and full. I felt like I needed to visit the porcelain fairy, but nothing would happen. This continued for several hours. I had a hard time forcing down the oil, but I did it. I ate about a half-portion of my dinner. That's normal with SLD, though. Then I just tried to sleep off the discomfort. I feel better today.

I hadn't yet experienced the "oil sickness" others described. Perhaps this was it. I am certainly not eager to repeat the experience. This will not deter me, though. I am determined to continue! I will be thin!

I do have a bit of a worry. It's isn't much; it's rather silly, actually. I will probably have a lot of loose, ugly skin once I reach my goal. I've heard and read from several sources that the forever-loose-skin is a bit of a myth. A lot of it can snap-back with time and exercise and toning and all that jazz. Some never will.

My husband assures me he will still love me even if I become nothing but ugly, flappy, sagging skin. That's comforting. I know that body contouring surgery is a thing, but I've never had a surgery, and the prospect absolutely terrifies me.

Anyhow, let's take a look at the roller coaster drop of doom graph:


Heh, doom. Doom is a funny word. Also, this is not doom. This is the opposite of doom.
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