My set-point must have just lowered while I was showering. Yesterday I'm sure it was above above 396 lbs. And I know it was below 398 lbs. I just woke up from my regular 8-hour sleep at around 6:20 PM. My alarm usually goes off at 6:30 PM.I felt hungry when I woke up, but I didn't yesterday. Today's hunger was light and manageable, and I thought to myself that if my weight drops even lower before my set-point does, I will feel hungrier.
I've learned that taking a small bite of something fixes this hunger, so I was considering trying that. The only trouble is that I need a one-hour flavor-free window before taking my oil, and there was less than an hour before I had to leave for work. That's fine because the oil dose would also quell the hunger monster.
Then I hopped in the shower.
Starting weight: 415 lbs
Current weight: 395.4 lbs ⇩
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 389 lbs
My weight is down from yesterday which is fantastic, and it's my lowest point so far! It was 396.6 lbs two days ago, and it was 397.6 lbs just yesterday. I can't believe this! 395.4 lbs today!
I have already been fantasy window shopping for new clothes. I can't wait to dress in cute things I've never been able to wear! That is a dream that will come true. I just need time.
What's also intriguing is that my hunger seemed to disappear after my shower. Did my set-point lower itself while I was debating whether or not to eat? This is super cool. I love SLD!
*note to self: shower more, eat less*
I was thinking today about when my sister dieted to lose 50 lbs. This was about 5 years ago. She is a medical assistant, and the doctor she worked for was starting a weight-loss program for her patients. She needed some results -- success stories. She made an offer to her staff: use the diet plan and purchase all of the resources necessary to do so, reach the goal you set for yourself, and be reimbursed for the cost of the diet.
My sister dieted like gangbusters. It was a starvation and severely-food-restrictive diet. She managed to pull it off! She dropped 50 lbs, and she got her reimbursement. She was looking fantastic, and she had worked so hard. I went out shopping with our dad to buy her a new outfit to fit her new size. She never wore it.
Very soon after she had hit her goal and stopped the plan, she was back to her old habits. She was eating a lot, and she packed on those 50 lbs again in no time. I felt that was quite a loss, and it always confused me why anyone would quit something that was clearly working.
The answer to that is simple. It was extremely difficult to do. It took a lot of work and deprivation. She was not enjoying her life at all while dieting. And if she did hit a lower goal, stopping the diet would certainly spell her doom. She'd bounce back... hard. Would this be her life forever? I can see why that would make her want to stop.
SLD is different, though. I realize that I will have to keep on the oil regimen (just not as much oil) for the rest of my life, but it's not a difficult thing to do. I don't want my set-point to go up and up and up again. What I love about it, though, is that it is truly effortless. I can do bonus things to help it along, but I really don't have to. I do these things -- like not eating at all -- to get a quicker result. I don't have to do this. I will still lose weight, my set-point will still drop, and I don't have to do anything more than take the oil.
I think it's graph time. Let's see this lovely down-blip.
I don't have to do anything graph:
That is so beautiful. I just want to cry. Just a bit over 5 lbs to go to reach my next short-term goal! Also, tomorrow marks Day 30. It's been a month, and going from Day 1 to now, the math says that I have averaged about a half-a-pound a day. Now, this is over the course of the entire month, but looking at the graph, it's plain to see that the truth is more like one-pound-per-day or close to it.
If I count days from the 13th day (when I was at 410.4 lbs) to the 29th day (today when I am 405.4 lbs), there are 16 days. Over that time it's a loss of exactly 15 lbs. And that's 15 lbs over 16 days which is ~0.94 lbs per day. That's amazing.
I now have 250.4 lbs to lose to meet my long-term goal. If I can do roughly 1 lb per day, that's 250.4 days. It's about 8-and-a-half more months (give or take). Now, I do realize that is not a realistic expectation. To lose 1 lb a day requires (according to weight loss math) consumption of 3,500 calories per day. And I will be eating and taking oil, too, so that means more calories I have to counteract per day.
My body uses a certain amount of calories just to maintain my current weight, and so I only have to do enough to counteract the remaining calories to add up to the 3,500 I need to burn per day. And as my weight goes down, my BMR will also go down. This means that my daily maintenance calories will go down. This means I'd need to supplement with more exercise to burn off the extra calories my body will not be consuming just for its own maintenance. Math is fun.
As I get thinner, exercising won't be such a chore. I think I can do it.
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