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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

My Weight Loss Journey

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.

(My husband and 'foster' son)  2011

   
Me - 2020

So, slow like a tortoise seems to work ... for me, anyway!







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