There has been a lot of crossing new milestones in the last 2 days... When I started on this journey, I had divided my weight loss plan in 4 losing steps. The first was to lose 20 pounds, then 15 pounds for each of the next 3 steps. My weight is now down to 178.4 lbs which is one milestone, and I'm done with step 2 of my plan, another milestone, and I'm in the 170s lbs, one more milestone . It's going a lot faster than I expected.
When is the rapid weight loss supposed to slow down? I have no idea, everything I expected didn't happen, it's not slowing down, it's even speeding up. For the next few days I am facing a difficult problem, I want to maintain this weight. I just need to make sure it's a normal weight loss that is not hiding something else.
So this morning, I ate my regular breakfast of yoghurt and raspberries but without cereal and instead had 2 healthier peanut butter toasts. That's a lot of food, I feel like I'll bust at the seams! For lunch (keep that between us, my wife is not aware of this)
I will have nachos, there is no sour cream, I might take a walk to the
store to get some but in any case I'll put plenty of cheese. (wife here: we have Greek yoghurt to replace the sour cream or so was the plan…) For supper, hamburger and fries, I'll eat at least a small size fries. Let see what happens to my weigh tomorrow. I will not have sugar, or alcohol there are still restrictions that I will not cross.
Tomorrow if my weight has increased or at least stayed the same, I'll be happy and resume what I was doing. if I have lost weight, there might be a health problem, I'll make an appointment to see my doctor.
While we are on the health issue, my back is giving me a lot of problems lately, so for a time I have stopped running and will only keep walking for my
exercise. I'll see how it feels after a week. I hate stopping my
training schedule, but first and foremost, I want to maintain a healthy
attitude and running might be doing more harm at this point. We’ll see!
I’m keeping my goal of a 150K steps for this
week, I really want to get a new badge for winning a step challenge
with my vivofit. As of this morning, I'm first! We can write comments in
the vivofit website challenge and I have stated how many steps I was planning to walk, I just want the soon-to-be-losers to know what they have to face up to. :) It's all in the spirit of raising the bar!
I'm starting to see more and more people coming back to Val-des-Bois after the long winter. These people have only known me as an obese man so I get a lot of: “Wow you look so much younger!” or “Have you lost weight?” The weight loss is so evident that even I am starting to think I look great LOL. It's really great to get the acknowledgments, but I can't let that go to my head. I must say though that it did a bit and with my head in the clouds from those few compliments, boy were my steps light.
Yesterday I had a choice between doing our income tax or writing my post; our government is not too understanding so I chose to file
our returns. I hate, no let me just re-type this in upper case, I HATE
filling up those forms and I'm using a computer program. Every year it's
the same thing, the government already has all my information,
why can't they just send me a statement saying: “Dear Richard, after
reviewing your income for this year and comparing it with our expenses,
we decided to get more money from you and your wife. Please send us the
money right now, we need to get a new welcome mat at the house of not-common as soon as possible. If we ever owed you money, you could wait for it, we can’t!” Any one love filling up their income tax?
Those meals sound high in salt. Yuck!
ReplyDeleteWishing you luck though.
Wait, I just thought of something. Didn't you already do the Junk Food Test when you had pizza and still lost weight? And then before that when you had the terrible milk chocolate (so gross), bunny?
DeleteDo you keep a file on me? ha ha ha
DeleteYes I had chocolate and it was not a test. I was having it in a way that was restricted and control. It was a learning experience.
I also had pizza, but that was only a small part of the day that was unhealthy. I was not that surprise to have not gain weight.
I would have rather stay on target, but I'm really concern because I'm losing about a pound a day, that is not healthy. I want to eat high calorie and high salt, just to make sure the lost will not continue at the same speed. I know I might take a week to get back to normal, but at least I would feel much better knowing that it's not a medical problem. This is not a test to learn anything, it's a voluntary action to stop the unexplained lost.
If you are 500 pound and you lose a pound a day, it's not a bad thing, but if you are 30 pounds from a good weight and you are losing at a pound a day rate, it is of concern.
You must do what you feel works for you. That is clear, and I mean no offense. But since you put it out there, I shall ask one last follow-up question; if you suspect anything, even the smallest thing off-key, why not then, see a doctor?
DeleteNo offense taken, I'm not posting to get congratulations, I'm blogging to have an exchange with any one that has thing to contribute. I welcome your curiosity Ivy, thank you for caring enough to be honest.
DeleteI live in Quebec, our health system compare to third world... I have a doctor but to see him I have to take an appointment and then it might take a month. I live about an hour from the clinic, to take an appointment I have to drive there, they have a phone but I lost so much time waiting and I never got thru so I just go there and set any appointment I might need. In 2 weeks my wife has an appointment and I will then take an appointment for myself.
In case of an emergency, there is the emergency at the hospital, they are really quick, in about 12 hours you can see a doctor (I'm really sarcastic with the quick) but this is for emergency and the doctor doesn't know you, so he will send me back to my doctor.
So what I'm saying is my health is my responsibility, if I felt it was an emergency, I would go to the hospital but I don't think so. If yesterday with the high calories I took I had lost a pound or more, I would have been worried and get medical attention quickly. I probably ate half of what was my regular eating day and I didn't enjoy it, experience NOT to be repeat!
I don't play game with my health, I am a lot more in tune that I ever was. What I tried to do is re-creating what I knew would bring result I could trust.
I will still see my doctor when possible and keep my ear wide open for trouble sign.
Oh my good gosh, that sucks about how hard it is to get to see the doc. I agree about your own hands. I feel that way, as well. Our system here is quite broken, as well. It should not be this way.
DeleteIf someone is real poor or real rich, they are fine. But where I am, the working poor, us, we are not included.
It makes me sad.
Glad you are not offended because that is not, ever, my intent. It's sometimes hard to tell, because it's just text.
Glad your goals have been coming quickly. That's awesome!
ReplyDeleteThanks Beth Ann I'm also glad, but it get tiresome... I get so tired of having to go back and buy clothing LOL
DeleteYes, sometimes Tax Forms have to take priority over blogging !
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
I prefer blogging, it so much more stimulating!
DeleteI'm not sure how much you have been eating but you sure are walking a lot! So I think you are probably ok with weight loss. Still, if you are worried there is nothing wrong with seeing your doctor.
ReplyDeleteI eat around 1200 calories day and I burn by walking about 1000 calories. So for my age, I should be losing a pound every 3 days, I'm losing much more than that! I will see my doctor soon but I want to determine if I should rush or be patient and see him in a month or so.
DeleteEeep, that's a lot of weight loss!
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Come to Kingston! (And we'll be neighbours) I am stunned at how much faster it is to get medical stuff done here. It's a smaller area, which certainly helps. Well, I truly hope it all turns out well. I suspect that your calorie intake is very low, and combined with your exercise, you're burning off quite a bit, too. That would certainly drop the weight. In any case, I hope everything is fine!
ReplyDeleteMy wife and I love Kingston, we would not mind at all to move down, even if it means to be your neighbor ha ha ha.
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