still hanging in there!

Dec 21, 2014

i know at my highest i was well over 280 lbs. it's scary when you name it like that. i'm now 233 and have not "dieted" per se. i used isagenix for a while and that was useful. expensive, so i stopped it, yo-yo'd a little but not too badly, and then got back on track. 

for me, controlling my sugar intake is a really big deal. i am completely off carbonated beverages and alcohol, with march 2014 kind of being my last hurrah when i was in jamaica. i started to track EVERYTHING i've eaten on another site, with some entries being educated guesses, but most by actual weight or volume measurement. picky picky. it's a pain cause i don't have an iphone i can take with me and use an app, but it's doing its job and i've lost 10 lbs in the past month and a half or so. pretty respectable. it's a really good evaluation tool to figure out where you've gone wrong in the past. while the vast majority of the site says it's a simple matter of calories in/out, everyone here doing surgery knows it's not that straightforward. turns out, i was going way over on sugars and way under on protein! this has to change before surgery can be scheduled! 

just had my xmas dinner with my family and i allowed myself to indulge - with my "treat" being the maple pecan sweet potatoes, and my "dessert" was fresh fruit. had some turkey and wild rice too. yes, high on the carb scale, but it's just one day and i'm ok with that. tomorrow it'll be back to focusing on hitting my nutritionist's targets. 

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