Happy, Happy, Happy

Not am I only 6 lbs. from my interim goal, I have lost over 2 inches in my waist plus my bust and "spare tire" are smaller too. All this despite a bacterial infection that put me on an antibiotic that made me sick to my stomach and made me crave carbs. Life is good - Onward and downward!

Flush away the pounds...

Happy about my weight loss this morning. Now I am only 8 pounds from my interim goal. Of course once I get there I will want to lose even more - that's human nature!

On Hold

No progress right now but I am holding steady. This is OK. I hope to somehow kick myself back into gear and start losing weight again. Only 15 lbs. to my interim goal right now. Of course I would like to weigh less but this is probably doable for now. Once you get older it's more of a chore to lose weight, unfortunately!

Yea!

This is the beginning of Day 6 of my newest diet scheme - LOL! I am very gratified to have lost 4 lbs. since Monday. Yes it is probably still water loss since this qualifies as a low-carb diet, but I will take it! I have a birthday party for my granddaughter to attend in late afternoon so I plan to eat something just before leaving my house and plan to stay away from the cake!

Better!

I am feeling fairly good today. I woke up to a slight weight loss of one pound and my glucose reading was much better than it has been. Naturally I would prefer the glucose level to be under 100 but I'll take 114 because it's 10 pts. lower than what it has been for quite some time. Onward!

Darn body!

It's not cooperating with me! Grrr! My weight loss efforts just don't seem to be working. I lose and regain the same two pounds over and over. How can you gain weight when you are dieting?

Not fair!

LOL, somehow I gained a pound! Theoretically it's not possible with the number of calories I've been consuming because in order to gain a pound you supposedly have to eat 3500 extra calories. Now most women know this couldn't possibly be true because most of us don't eat that many extra calories in a week, much less in one day. Indeed I am not consuming "extra" calories because I have cut the number of calories to be no more than 1200 per day, which is the minimum number of calories for a safe weight loss. So I chalk it up to excess sodium which causes water retention and voila, there you have it - weight gain! All I can do is to soldier on...

Almost a year!

Hello world, I am back! I can't believe I haven't been blogging about my little odyssey during which I made no progress whatesoever. In fact I ran across a weight loss weight tracker that I had been logging back in August 2009 and discovered I weighed the very same weight yesterday as I did in August, 2009. It's sickening because basically I have been dieting all that time with no luck!

I know other people write about their cravings and I read all sorts of information about quelling your cravings, dealing with your cravings, etc. What if you don't have cravings? What if you log every bite of food you put into your mouth so you know you are not overeating and you still don't lose any significant weight?

If there is a diet out there I have either tried it personally or read the book. In fact I have a stack of diet books in my basement and I have a yard and a half of diet books. Some of them I could probably sell on Amazon.com but most of them are "a dime a dozen" these days. Why? Because diets don't work! I guess I shouldn't really say that because back in 2007 I lost 57 lbs. on a diet. However with the diet I took "pep pills" or "Metabolizers" as they put it. I was so hyped up with caffeine that I was full of energy all the time in spite of only consuming about 1000 calories a day. Of course I regained about half of it. My doctor says I am actually one of the lucky ones since most people regain all the weight and a little more within a year. I've kept half of that weight off so I guess that makes me halfway successful?

There are a few things I have noticed about myself. One is that I am better off and even feel better when I don't consume too many grains. This doesn't mean that I don't eat them, I just don't consume all the servings the Food Pyramid tells me to consume. If I did that I'd weigh 300 lbs, not 160. Also if I don't eat things that contain sugar (added sugar) I don't EVER get cravings for sweets. Add to that that I have NEVER had cravings for salty foods and this is a winner. Doing this is also beneficial to my Type 2 Diabetes.

So what I am doing now is eating normal portions of poultry, fish, seafood and meat, good size portions of fresh vegetables, a few starches and grains and a couple of pieces of fruit per day. Add to that some cottage cheese and hard cheese once in a while and a glass of 1% milk a day and hopefully the weight loss will continue. The first three days I have mostly been eating raw green veggies and my proteins with half of an orange twice a day and that's how I have lost the first few pounds. Oh, I found out from tests done at Berkeley HeartLab that my genotype is best off with a diet that is 35% fat, That is the highest amount of fat recommended for a genotype and I consider myself very lucky. It means I don't do as well on a low fat diet. Who knew?

Today is the last day of the "prep" portion of this way of eating but I may continue it through Friday to give myself a better start. Then I will add back starches such as a piece of light bread at two meals per day and maybe a yam, small amount of brown rice or potato at a couple of meals. It's basically a low-carb plan but not really low like Atkins and certainly not high protein or high fat. You know a lot of people think Atkins is a high protein plan but actually it isn't. It's a high fat plan. But I am not doing Atkins. I've tried it before and to me it was too boring, even after I started adding nuts and berries, etc. I'm on Miz Cee's own diet now and we'll see how it goes. I will try to keep you posted (like anyone actually cares - LOL!). Well, I care and my doctor cares but he doesn't read my blog!