Refer to: South Beach Diet Plan dated 9-1-18, before reading this update.
I decided to make a new post on my weight loss journey. A very dear friend of mine told me many years ago that overweight people do not like it when not so overweight people talk about wanting to lose weight. Well, I was MUCH skinnier back then! So, I complied with that thought. However, when I started gaining weight and adding about 10 pounds a year, I realized what I'd look like in another 10 years and did not like what I saw. That is why I started watching my weight. I teasingly like to say to people that I have lost over a hundred pounds in the last 20 years. After I get their 'shocked' attention, I explain that it was the same 10 pounds over and over! But if I had not, I might be over 200 pounds!
June of 2020, I was still down to the upper 130s. My goal has still been to see 130 then stay between 130-135. I think that is reasonable for me. I settled for the upper 130s because the rest would not come off. People kept telling me to change what I did etc. 'shake it up' And I tried but nothing worked. I decided not to worry about losing more and accept where I was.
I was having indigestion problems. Which I have had most of my life off and on. So, just from my knowledge of what I had learned and read during the years, I came up with a plan to see if it would help me with that problem. I decided not to eat for 12 hours over night. (My niece told me that was the intermittent fasting plan. I had wondered what that was.) From whatever the last time I ate until that hour in the morning. Mostly 7pm-7am. Then have nothing but liquids (liquidly smoothies included) until the mid-day meal. Between then and that last time I eat, I can eat whatever I want (staying on the South Beach Plan). I hoped to feel better. And I did! and do!
The bonus of that is that as I kept tract of my plan on my weekly sheet I record on, I noticed that since June to now (Dec) I have lost 5 pounds. So I am in that 130-135 zone1 Yay! I keep wanting to 'rev it up' to see 130, but I tell myself, "NO!" ... and just keep doing what I am doing and slowly let whatever happens happen.
So, bottom line, to this story is these three pictures. The first was one I had taken in 2011 and I could barely button the shirt. The other two were today (2020). I know most before and after pictures, the person is in sexier clothes and usually different color hair! Ha. That just is not me! So here are my pictures.
