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2018 JUL 7 -- Day 87

My weight loss has been a bit slow over the past couple of days, and I believe this is the bounce-back from the bout I had with the porcelain fairy a few days ago. I expected to gain, but I haven't. Instead, the weight loss has slowed. I lost point-two pounds one day to the next over the past two days. It's a loss, though. I'm going to happily accept that.

Starting weight: 401 lbs
Current weight: 345.6 lbs 
Long-term Goal: 145 lbs
Short-term Goal: 325 lbs

While I think that I understand quite a bit more about how my body processed food and stores fat, I don't know all of it. No one does, really. Even Dr. Fung admits that he doesn't get how everything works, but he is the closest to the truth that I have found at this point.

I was happy to see that Dr. Nowzaradan of My 600 Pound Life is recommending that his patients eat generally a ketogenic diet to lose weight. That is a relief. I see some of those people eating low-quality, carb-filled foods, and I just cringe. I know the evils of pizza and how it can make your body ignore any signals of fullness and cause cravings and hunger. So eating any portion of bad foods like pizza will not only halt progress, but it will make the diet much harder to follow.

I wish that they showed more of the consultation visit with Dr. Nowazaradan so that I can find out whether he is explaining the reason behind avoiding the foods, or to see whether he explains the eating those foods not only cause the weight gain, bu making following the diet much harder as well. I really want to be able to help others, but as I am still so heavy, no one would listen to me about nutrition and health.

My husband's glucose readings have been amazing the past few days. He's seen numbers in the 80s and low 90s. It's amazing how he's been able to turn it around so quickly. I am very proud of him for sticking to the diet plan to completely.

I am wearing a short today that used to be a bit tight on me. Now there's room in it. I love that I can have this tangible evidence of my weight loss efforts. I can't wait until the shirt doesn't fit me any more and becomes far too large to wear. That will be amazing. That's coming. I just have to have patience.

I can't wait to need a whole new wardrobe graph:


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