It's been a crazy summer with
work and home but through it all I've managed not to give up, give in or lose
the momentum to reach my goal. Not exactly sure what my goal is, I just
know that I'm getting this blub off.
The three week vacation in
August turned into a renovation extravaganza, gutting our main bathroom to the
studs and on my birthday which coincided with the last day of our
holidays, I was in our new soaker tub admiring out handiwork. We
did it all, which had many challenges fitting new beautiful fixtures into a
1954 build.
While I was off I visited my
doctor and he pulled one of my 2 medications for diabetes and told me my blood
pressure was very low so that pill may be next. I know I'll never get off
my thyroid medication, as I don't have a thyroid, but there that's one of my
goals is to no longer take diabetes or high blood pressure medications!
So the body transformation -
I think I'm getting the mind transforming too. As of this Thursday's
weigh-in, I'm down 30.5 lbs. Since May 16th that's 2 lbs a week - the
recommended rate at which to lose weight. I have to say this as I really
want those Biggest Loser double digit losses every week and kick myself that I
don't have huge losses.
I'm still on Jenny Craig and
plan to do so probably until November. I'm OK with the food and if our
family goes out I can eat off the menu, I just have a good think about the big
picture and seem to make the wise choice.
I have a trick to deal with
get togethers at friends houses - bring lots of treats, sit away from the food
and when things get passed around, pass it on - the last evening over at a friend’s
I brought a 8 section carrousel full of candy and nuts. Everyone was
munching away and they didn't notice that I wasn't - I sipped on my drink (I
can nurse a drink for hours now) so I looked like I was partaking, no one
noticed. My friend is an awesome - I mean we call her Martha
Stewart - cook so I did try her hot pepper peach salsa, but that was it I tried
it, it was delicious, I didn't have a serving but I did enjoy what I had and
didn’t feel I deprived myself. Next
morning I wasn’t thinking “I shouldn’t have eaten (or drank) …”.
I did invest in a BodyMedia
Core band and have worn it since Wednesday.
It tracks my movements – knows if it’s light, vigorous, etc, tracks the
number of steps I take and tracks my sleep and just that time I lay in bed but
not really in a deep sleep. I logged
everything I consume. So I’m so happy
with another toy in my life – I love stats and figures and charts and graphs,
this is fun. I’ve learned my first night
I slept for 3.25 hours and last night I slept for 4.4 hours, so I’m going to
work on getting to bed before 12 on a week night, since I do get up at 5 am –
sleep is a major part of weight loss.
I’m back to walking, have
gone out every lunch hour and tonight I will walk just under 6 km to the train
station (son come to borrow the car and this is a great opportunity – check me
out I’m not grumbling or taking the subway down, I really do see this as an opportunity
to get some exercise, log the steps and burn off those calories). OK, now just my luck I’m going to start out
and get hit by a car and die and I’ll never get to my goal.
Biggest challenge – finding a
ready-made salad dressing I like that is low in sodium, calories and good
flavour. So far I’m not having much
luck, so I think I’ll try to create my own (that friend I mentioned – I’m
bbming her now for a good recipe).
Here’s to another good week
50lbs off by November here I come!
