It has come together like this:
week 1 | 198.4 lbs. | (total) | |
week 2 | 194.2 lbs. | -4.2 | -4.2 |
week 3 | 190.0 lbs. | -4.2 | -8.4 |
week 4 | 188.2 lbs. | -1.8 | -10.2 |
week 5 | 187.2 lbs. | -1.0 | -11.2 |
week 6 | 183.8 lbs. | -3.4 | -14.6 |
week 7 | 183.0 lbs. | -0.8 | -15.4 |
week 8 | 182.2 lbs. | -0.8 | -16.2 |
week 9 | 182.0 lbs. | -0.2 | -16.8 |
week 10 | 175.4 lbs. | -6.6 | -23.0 |
The key for me is focusing on my daily points allotment, and treating my "flex points" as "mistake" or "unavoidable" points. After I drop another .4 pounds, I'll have to eat two fewer points per day to continue the weight loss. I already have a plan, and it involves a lot of these.
After being "on program" for ten weeks, there are two things that I am much better about doing now. First, I plan ahead for food... not getting stuck in a situation where I'm starving and the only thing I can put my hands on is fast food or a candy bar. Second, where there are opportunities to make choices... even choices between bad and worse, I can make healthier, satisfying ones. For instance, at our church's dinner theater, the meal was baked cornish game hen, steamed vegetables, and "chocolate pyramid anglaise." In olden days (when a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking...) I would have wolfed down the whole pyramid, but since I had fueled up on the half-hen and veggies, I felt full and only went about halfway through the pyramid... knowing that I was eating it for the taste and not the "fulfillment." When I knew we were having "breakfast for dinner" this past Wednesday night, I ate a low point (morning) breakfast and low point lunch so that I could eat the higher point scrambled eggs, bacon and hash browns for dinner.
One wonderful side-effect of this eating plan has been that my acid reflux issues are much less severe. I still am on Pepcid AC BID, but I don't have to supplement it with other antacids (like I did sometimes.)
How low can you go? Weight Watchers says my healthy range is 145-165. I think I'd really like to land in the 150-160 range. I'm making my next goal 160 and then decide whether I want to go for 155. I don't think I've weighed that little since I was... oh... maybe fourteen?
3 comments:
That is great Patrick! Congrats ;)
~ Lacy
Way to go Patrick!
By the way, our website is up and running as of tonight- it's www.stewsolutions.com. Thanks for your help!
Christina
Good Job Patrick! Keep it up!
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