More thing added back into my diet. Nice. Last week I lost even more weight, probably another 2 pounds. Not my plan. Lost even though I am really working on fitness. This week it’s more variety in protein (cheese, YES – but not more than 3 oz a day). I can even have little dairy (milk, yogurt), low fat on my veggie days (I will probably pass for the most, as I still can’t have Sugar in the Raw I am not (yet) interested in my usual large cup of Early Gray tea – I’ll rather wait until I can have it all. Also, I can have some starchy stuff (such as potato) – either starch or grains. Definitely getting back to a full “can have it all”. Again, there is no “standard” when it comes to transition week 2 and later, this is completely personalized. Such even, that next week we will add “wedding cake” back into my menu – as that is the week we will be out of town for such an event.
Shopping
Sep 29
I had to go shopping today. Even my skinniest pants are falling off my hips and going all bundled up with a belt to a client does not feel very flattering. I still had an Abercrombie and Fitch gift certificate of over $200 – my last years birthday gift from my dad! – which I had kept for exactly the time such as now.
Almost 3 hours did I peruse the shops and came home with a whole bundle of stuff: pair of good slacks for business meetings, a dress which can be worn at the wedding in October, a Turtle neck for under the dress, bras, underwear and several pair of jeans. I am all set for a while. And exhausted was I after all of that!
It’s official – I am now a size 6. I was a 10 when people said I don’t need to lose weight. A size 6 with a waste of 28 inches. This is when finding a length of 32 inches becomes difficult, but 31 inches is okay mostly. I finally got again fitting jeans!
Finding the right new bra was more challenging. I am actually not sure if I could not have done better and should had gone some other place too, but by then I was tired and after trying on 25 different bras – not to speak of all the pants and dresses before that! – I was happy to get anything that felt somewhat decent. Not the way to spend $50 a bra, but heck, even if they are not perfect, I’ll still make use of them – and I was ready, ready, ready to be done. Numbers? What used to be before either 36B or 38B (depending the cut) was now all a 34B. With other words, I lost fat around my upper body without losing in cup size (even though I THINK they do look smaller, getting rid of fat can do that!). That’s what they always say on the list, you will lose fat, not boobs and I guess they are right 
So, overall I am a happy camper. Makes this milk day a bit less cumbersome.
Update
Sep 26
People have been wondering how it is going for me on transition as I have been quiet the past few days. For this reason I decided to “past post” a couple of days – I did have some thoughts about it all over those days, only life was hectic and I never got around writing something.
There was talk on the email list as to what helps people keeping motivated. Somebody mentioned the tracker I am using on this site. So I commented to that email with the following:
Hello fellow “beaders”. Yes,having a ticker was always very motivating for me. On the http://accuweight.marlyse.com section I have a ticker which ONLY encompasses my time on the beads diet, on my main site, http://www.marlyse.com I have a ticker which shows ALL dieting progress (40 pounds or such) and that ticker there I love especially, it’s a plane taking off to the right of a sunset and further to the left there are some clouds and I have a red balloon which traveled all of those pounds with me, through the clouds, into the sunset and at the end took off with me and the plane. Really neat stuff to have.
TRANSITION : Week 2 – Day 1
Sep 24
It is day 1 of my 2nd week of transition! And it’s the first week without beads. No more rubbing!!!
Over the course of the last week I lost another 2.5 pounds – which I had not planned for. What I’ve lost I tend to regain in muscle mass and weight. Have been going regularly 2x a week now to swim and also my daily treadmill routine is beginning again to feel like a routine. I’ve even began sticking to my additional weight lifting regimen. My body fat has also nicely reduced and stabilized at a lower level. Hoping to improve this even more with regular workout. To get my inner fluids running nicely, I ordered a rebounder and am looking forward to incorporate this in my whole regimen.
This morning I had a personal talk with the person from Accu Weight guiding me through my transition time. And I can add 2 new items to my regime! This will be a great addition. I definitely am feeling stronger since I’ve got protein added back into my meal plan and I also no longer am suffering under the chills and heat spells. Finally I can do my long awaited Frittata!
