30+ Lbs Gone

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!