7 months out

Feb 27, 2009

It's the end of February and I thought I would put my thoughts down on paper.  I looked at my weight graph today and saw a huge shift in the way I had been losing weight right during the Christmas holidays.  I asked myself what happened and why the huge shift in the way I am losing weight.  The only thing it can be is adding too many carbs and simple sugars to my diet.  I really don't think I'm eating that much more but I think I will pull out the tracker and start tracking every bite that goes into my mouth.  I have a palm pilot and also a nutrition program that I can load onto it so I am going to try to get that going and track my calories (every bite) and try to really cut back on the carbs and sugars and see if it shifts me back into high gear so I can get the last remaining 19 pounds off.  The weight is still coming off, don't get me wrong, it's just that I only lose about a pound or 2 a month instead of 6-10 pounds like I was.  Maybe this is normal, but I think I could be doing better.  I'll get back with you in a month or two and see if first I figured out how to use that blasted pilot and get the nutrition program loaded onto it and then I'll see if I can stop myself from having too many "treats" and get back to the basics and get the final weight off. 

I have started to exercise big-time after the hoidays and maybe I am eating more thinking that the exercise is compensating but obviously after looking at my weight tracker and seeing that graph today was a very visual reminder of my shift in eating during the holidays and how I haven't completely cleaned up my eating since then.  I  am trying not to beat myself up about this because this is my past history when I get off track so I am also trying to change my thinking patterns as well.  I know my thoughts (before weight loss surgery) have been very unhealthy and have been very self sabotaging to my weight loss efforts.  My body has changed tremendously since I started this journey.  I was wearing an 18-20 and now I'm down to a size 12 so I am not unhappy. I am very pleased with my consistent exercise and I can see tone returning to my body.  I was beginning to doubt if that would happen.  There is still sag going on with my skin but I am happy with how I look in clothes most of the time.  I will most likely need to have a tummy tuck at the end of the weight loss phase to look completely right in clothes.  If I became obsessed with that, I would have a thigh lift and butt lift and arm lift as well.  Those are all areas that are sagging, just not as badly as the stomach. 

Well that's enough blabbing for today so I am going to get started with my day. My youngest granddaughter will be in a pagent today. She will be 3 on April 1st.  Never been to a beauty pagent today - don't know if I'm going to like this.  I don't think you should judge beauty.  I think that is a very individual thing.  To me pretty is  - is pretty does.  A "beautiful" person can be so "ugly" that it ruins the outer beauty for me.  Just pretty outside does not make a pretty person.

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