Sep 21
Today is my fifth veggie/protein day. I have been thoroughly enjoying these days. Weight has bounced a bit, like something in high velocity coming to a halt – first it bounced a bit back up, then dropped, then bounced back up and then settled exactly where I was 5 days ago.
The next 2 days will be my last 2 milk days while wearing the beads. For the first time I am dreading the milk days. Hopefully it will go better than I anticipate.
Sep 12
Today is a day of shuffling numbers and plans around.
Originally I was planning on going onto transition this coming Thursday, calculating that then I would be roughly where I want to be with the weight. But surprise, surprise, I am now already less than 1/2 pound away from the goal number! Knowing that I am having 2 trips in October, one an extended weekend with a marriage and the second marriage a normal length weekend I knew that my milk days can not be on the weekends! I had always computed that I will be doing “5 days veggies/protein, 2 days milk” and that had been my stable assumption the past few weeks. For these reasons I always thought that I will be starting this coming Thursday with transition beginning with the 5 days veggies/protein and was beginning to fear that I’ll go way too much below my goal weight because I did not want to begin transition tomorrow, Sunday, as else my future milk days would fall onto Fridays and Saturdays, just the days I will be at parties and other social gatherings.
Funny how ‘blind’ one can get to a simple solution. I can just as well begin the first transition week with milk days! So my first transition day will be Tuesday with the first milk day. Looking at the remainder of the year, having milk days being Tuesday and Wednesday fits perfectly with Thanksgiving, family birthdays and Christmas, even New Year. Next year I’ll shift it as of January 1 to be always Monday/Tuesday my milk days (as needed), as usually I do most ‘damage’ on the weekends with all the family gatherings.
Yepee! Only 3 days longer on the basic program.
Sep 10
Little progress on weight loss but again a small jump in body fat reduction – which is actually the main thing I am interested in on this last stretch. Found the measurements I had when I used to model back in Paris – yes, long ago and in another life – those numbers have definitely changed, with bust being a tad smaller and hips a tad bigger then at the time. Gravity took it’s toll over the past 28 years.
Sep 5
It’s 6 PM and only now am I realizing that I forgot to post today!
I had a very bad night, did not sleep much and the little I did was restless. All for no apparent reason. This morning I felt very, very weak and not good. Then I remembered that I actually did not feel well the past 2 days and that this was since we had a visit from my brother-in-law who had a major flu last week. Once I realized that I stuffed myself with vitamin C and am now doing better. Still somewhat weak but not horrible anymore, I am taking it easy though, just in case.
Today is my last day from my 3rd set of beads. So far I have lost over 20 pounds. Had some Eggplant-Lasagna and decided that this is definitely not my favorite dish – way too much eggplant in it for my taste. I know that other people are really fond of it and for this reason I will post the recipe soon.
Sep 4
I am ready to be done. Guess what. I am not going to give in until I am fully satisfied. Period.
It’s a drizzly day outside. Having an introversion headache since yesterday. Tried changing it, it’s better but still there. Today I’m trying to get a veterinarian appointment to have a checkup on Xena. Knowing that then I’ll have to talk about Tricky’s death makes me feel all the grief and loss again. Not looking forward to it.
My weight is continuing on the promised curve. And the body fat has settled on the lower range. So far for 25 days I have not once cheated. On the email list they wish each other “a perfect day”, meaning “no BLT” (no bite, like or taste of anything outside the strict protocol). So far this was not a problem for me. Why pay and go through all the hassle of this program and then cheat and severe the chemical constellation which is the reason of such great fat and not muscle loss?
10 August 2009 is the day that I began a new adventure.
As a fact, it is so far off any other diet I've ever read about or done myself that I needed a place to keep it all together, a place to write down my life on this path.
Not that I am currently heavily overweight. But I have always been very skinny and I feel at my best then. From the 45 pounds I had gained, I managed to rid myself of 20 pounds in arduous attempts. But the last 25 pounds have stuck with me way too long and tired of constantly "dieting" and hovering around the same 5 pounds, I decided to drastically change something.
Feel free to poke around or you can follow my voyage from Day Zero