Laurel's progress has really been spectacular.
I've dropped a few since my last update, too — I
weighed in at 236.2 today. We had a few days of unseasonably high temps and humidity that really
screwed things up (retaining water - I could feel it in my fingers). Yeah, 3 1/2 pounds' progress
is not so impressive... but it's progress.
I'm keeping my chin up, though — I'm just about at 235. And 235 puts me only 10 pounds
away from 225 — and that's a big deal to me: the best I did when I was on the Atkins diet in 2012 was 216.
Being at 225 puts me in that ballpark.
Speaking of dieting, I completely spaced on one dimension of my weight loss journey — that's the
diet I started when after my appendectomy in May. The hospital informed me that I was diabetic.
Starting at that point, sugar was a no-go for me.
Two and a half months later, at the close of September, I started replacing my usual morning egg
casserole with 11 ounces of protein shake. Finally, just before my previous post, I stopped drinking
soda. The whole story is spelled out using the Diet
filter on my chart.
Meanwhile, I can say happily that I've been wearing these 36" waist jeans for the past couple of
weeks, that I'm wearing my lovely leather jacket again, and that last night for a family dinner, I wore
a shirt I haven't been able to wear for four years.
I feel ecstatic!
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