Sunday, February 10, 2019

Even though I posted quite late yesterday, thought I'd do a little check in this morning.

Day #5 at the SAME WEIGHT. LOL! The powers that be are testing my resolve. Caught an old tape running last night. It was entitled, "How Can I Tweak My Eating to Kick Start the Weight Loss?" I pressed the stop button and reminded myself I just need to continue on this same path and it will all come together. This morning am still reminding myself of that. I am also trying to keep in mind that my workouts (as I mentioned yesterday) could be causing fluid retention for muscle repair and that I might be a stair step loser now with all the weight lifting I am doing.

I had a long session with my bed last night about 9 hours. However, you know me, that is not a full 9 hours. Got up twice to use the loo, then up to let the dogs out in two different waves. So 4 get out of bed sleep interruptions along with several just wake ups.

Had the strangest dream about Ron falling into a mud puddle in the yard with Ace. Ron sunk in the mud puddle face down so I started to go rescue him when he lifted his head out of the mud puddle and appeared to be just fine. Then he slipped back in the water mud and fully disappeared. That's all I remember from that. But just weird.

I have a single dog to groom today. It's an easy one - just clippering, no pulling. It will arrive around 11 and will be finished by 12:30 or so. Then we are going to look at new sofas.

Super Sunday to one and all!

Oh regain. When it started it was a mystery to me. I didn't feel like I was eating in such a way as to merit it. In some ways, I still don't think what I am eating is so much different in the easy maintenance years. Back then, I kept saying I felt like my body was reacting differently to macro nutrients, that I had a metabolic reset. Now I feel like my body has reset back to its previous not so great metabolic patterns. During the easy maintenance years, I could eat good carbs. Now I am finding that I need to be more restrictive. And it makes me sad, because I like steel cut oats and sweet potatoes and I'm able to eat them in reasonable portions, but my body just seems so unforgiving, and wants to make everything be fat. Low carb was the only way, the only way I could lose pre surgery. It's beginning to look like the only way to slow and hopefully reverse the regain train.

So I read the book about keto Cecily recommended. It has a decent plan how to ease into keto. It also had an excellent piece of advice: it's important to not let perfect be the enemy of good. That really reassures me that I can succeed without 100% perfection. I probably will not be able to afford free range eggs or grass fed beef (perfect) but I can buy eggs (good).

Clearly I need some sort of exercise program I can implement with some fidelity. If nothing else, it lowers stress which reduces stress eating.

Maintaining is not easy. I have a chronic disease~ obesity. But I will keep fighting to stay in remission. And I have a really good tool to help me in my fight. Without my sleeve, I would be morbidly obese, and without it, I wouldn't have maintained a weight loss of over a hundred pounds for over 6 years. And for that, I am still deeply grateful.

Late post!

Weight 178.4

Such a change in temps for me this month. From hot as Hades to brrrr! My neighbor was making fun of me as I was walking the dog in my rolled up jeans and sneakers with no socks and wearing a turtleneck, fleece, down vest and wool gloves. She is from Baltimore and said, "typical Californian dressing for the cold!" I never wear socks except when hiking or at the gym. It honestly never occurs to me! I'm most comfy in flip flops, but even I can't wear flip flops in the low 50s.

Today was a lazy day. A few dog walks and I played with my air fryer Christmas present for the first time. I put chicken thighs in there with just salt and pepper. They came out great! I like dark meat, but I like it really cooked. For me it's a poultry thing. I like my eggs really well cooked too. Anyway, they were perfect. Now I need to buy more chicken! I made it through today with sticking to the Keto thing and boy do I crave bread, ice cream, cookies... carbs and sugar! But the stuff I'm eating is like what I did while I was losing, just with more fat. The book says eating more fat makes you less hungry. I have not found that to be true, but I think my thyroid meds are off again and my appetite shows it (as does my Apple Watch - I know when I show 400 calories burned without exercise that my heart is working overtime). I'm overdue to go get my blood tests, so I think I'll do that tomorrow.

Anyway, hope everyone had a nice weekend!