Today is the first day of my 3rd set of beads. The scale showed me being down 16 pounds. That’s almost a pound a day. Quite incredible. I am past midpoint and my attention is currently on trying to gauge if this set will get me down to where I want to be and ordering 1 new set of beads for the transition will be enough or if I need to order 2 sets.
Archive for category Wins
Day NINETEEN
Aug 28
Day EIGHTEEN
Aug 27
It’s the last day of my second set of beads. And my weight finally dropped again. In a nice big chunk. And the body fat dropped too. Great. Over 15 pound lost in 18 days. The 15 pounds are “guaranteed” per month. If I don’t lose anything the next 12 days I’m still on target. Of course that’s not my wish, I would like to be done by the end of the month. Now that would be nice. Very nice.
Day ELEVEN
Aug 20
Back to 2 days veggies. I am past the halfway point. 12.4 pounds lost. Though once again I take todays numbers with a grain of salt. Slept badly with a lot of sweating, I think I lost a lot of water and I think this is in part the reason for todays low number. But below 140 pounds! Haven’t been that in years, many years. The beads to their magic. Currently I have to force myself to even eat the minimum, no appetite whatsoever. Fluctuating between being semi-okay to grief to numbness to some anger back to being semi-okay. The loss of Tricky is still overpowering all other feelings. Since it happened I have strong headaches from introversion and not even a walk eased it. Still using Advil to keep it at bay. Hoping to taper it off today.
Day NINE
Aug 18
Today is the day were I get to change my beads before going to bed. New pressure points after that. And today is a day which feels like a win. Not only that I have lost more weight, but also my body fat is now finally dropping better and I also look a bit less puffed up. The past couple of days I drank roughly 1/4 more than recommended, but feel I could do even better and will continue working at this. I also had a good night sleep, it seems the chills are pretty much gone. My left arm still needs some slight attention, but absolutely no tingling, that is fully gone.
The big win though that I had this morning was looking for a pair of pants that fit me from my closet.
I knew that from a pair of slacks I like wearing that I had the same pants a size smaller in a 10, sitting far to the back tucked away. I had bought them either 2 or 3 years ago, thinking at the time that I’m almost there and with a little diet I could wear them. Since them I tried maybe 2 or 3 times to get in them but it was either not possible or such a squeeze it was ridiculous. So there they were, still tagged from the store. Of course you know what is coming: I tried them on and they went over hips and all in one fellow swoop. Not only do I fit into them, they are on the verge of falling off my hips and being too big! I hope they’ll keep on holding for another 2 weeks, I had not planned on buying clothes during the diet for the short time period I’m going to be on it. Hey, almost FALLING OFF. That’s a win. Definitely room between waste and body. Super cool. Last time I was down to this weight was 6 years ago when we moved to Kansas.
Coffee
Aug 18
Today there was some discussion on the mailing list about coffee and how much some people miss it and how they deal with it. Several have managed to completely drop the milk or cream with it, even after the program.
Over the course of the day while following the discussion I realized that I did not have my daily 1/2 cup of Nespress coffee with a tablespoon of half & half and a small piece (1/4 serving) of chocolate in over 7 days – it’s usually my daily celebration of a day well done after dinner and oddly enough I have not even missed it (up to now). That’s pretty interesting to be happening on a diet I think.
