Week 7

Well, it's week 7 and I certainly haven't posted on here in a while.  I guess that's what happens when life gets busy.  Here's the good news.  I though I had started my weight-loss journey at 286 pounds, but I actually started at 288.  That means that since I weighed in at 259 today, I've lost 29 pounds in 7 weeks.  I went to the doctor last week for a check up and when the doctor learned how much weight I've lost, she actually came in and shook my hand.  I don't think I've ever been so proud of a handshake in my life.

She also told me that when I saw her last, my blood pressure had been at 130/90 and that day it was 106/77.  Quite a change.  She asked me what I was doing and when I told her, she was impressed.  It's not a crazy fad diet, it's not a lose-weight-quick scheme, it's just healthy sensible weight loss.

I'm going to the AOTA conference next week, and before I would have just eaten every meal in a restaurant, but I decided to use my head and I booked a hotel room with a kitchenette so that I can prepare my own meals while I'm there.  I'm sure I'll go out for a few meals, but I don't have to go out every meal.  I can purchase salad and chicken at a grocery store and eat well without breaking either my diet or my budget.

If anyone out there is reading this and thinks that this diet is something they can't do, believe me, it's so easy.  I never feel hungry, and I'm losing weight at such a healthy rate.  I'm so proud of myself for finally finally doing something about my weight.

Day 36

Having a good time with this "diet" I'm on.  It hardly feels like a diet when I'm eating yummy food all day long, I'm never hungry, and I'm actually losing weight.  Usually on a diet, I'm starving, I'm cranky, and I barely lose a pound.  Today I went to Panera bread to meet a classmate and get some work done.  I got a bagel with fat free cream cheese.  I ate 1/2 of the top 1/2 of the bagel and I was full!  Stuffed to the gills, actually.  I go back to school on Wednesday, and I'm hoping that I'll go back to class at 20 pounds weight loss, and I'm almost there...19 pounds in 36 days!  Can you believe it?  I can't.  A funny thing about losing 19 pounds...my panties keep sliding down, they're so loose on me.

So many things about this are so very cool!  I walk a mile each day now, and it's not a struggle!  We walk around the park twice each night, and I want to start walking into each culdesac in the neighborhood too!  I'm going to take my car tomorrow and drive around each one to see how far it would be to go into each one.  I'll also check that plus going around the park twice to see if we need to start with one and then add the 2nd one.

I only wish my allergies weren't so horrid this time of year and that the wind wasn't quite so brisk.  Oh well!

April Fool's Day!

No fooling, I lost 14 pounds in March!  I'm so excited about the weight loss, but I'm more excited about how good I feel.  I don't feel hungry.  I don't feel like I'm depriving myself.  I don't feel like I'm missing something.  I feel good.  I feel as if I can maintain this.  I feel ready to face April and see where I am at the end of the month!