Down another decade!

Feb 01, 2012

I'm under 220.  Hooray!  I haven't lost in a couple of weeks, but this morning I'm at 218.  I was at 212 when I gave birth, but I lost 40 pounds in the hospital.  (I had pre eclampsia and had gained 25 pounds of fluid which promptly went away after giving birth.)

This means I've lost 49 pounds.  Wow. 

Yesterday was a bit rough for me, diet wise.  I stayed home from work to do something on the house.  (I have such a low guilt threshhold that even on this site I feel the need to justify - I did work Saturday in the office and six  hours on Sunday from home.)  I've been trying to purge the extra crap (yes, that's the proper technical term) from my home.  I had been unable emotionally to let go of a lot of stuff, but apparently I'm over that.  We bought a new bedroom set and needed to clear out our bedroom to make room.  To do that, I had to finish clearing out one of the storage units, um, I mean the extra bedroom, to have a place to put the old bedroom set.  I moved most of it to the other extra bedroom, but only because I had emptied a lot of that stuff out.  One of the guys at work has told me that his wife does organizing and she said she'd be willing to help me.   I hope to find out today what she'll charge and arrange to have her help me one day a week for the next couple of weeks.

Anyway, rough diet day - I found myself eating all day.  At least, that's how it felt.  Last night I stopped to count up all I had eaten and it wasn't as bad as it originally seemed.  I tried something for breakfast that had more carbs, but was whole grain, low fat.  I didn't like it and threw it away after literally two bites.  Then a couple of hours later I had soup which was pretty good.  Because of the liquid I was able to eat 3/4 cup, which is a lot for me.  Then a few hours later I had beans, a little rice (my surgeon knows I add a couple bites of carbs because if I do, I feel SO much better and have more energy) with fajita chicken.  I did have a sugar free ice cream bar twice.  Eating the calcium chews feels like I'm snacking on candy.  That's more food than I've been used to eating, so it feels like I snacked all day.  But I was never truly satisfied.  I think that;'s why I had the ice cream,  just looking for some satisfaction that never came.

Today's a new day.  I'm having my vitamins for breakfast :) and will be at work all day.  The calcium chews I tried at first were somewhat nasty, but I've found the raspberry and caramel are pretty good.  I have to have them three times during the day, so it really is like snacking on candy.

And I'm really happy about the new weight.

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