Jen's Journey

Up 1.7 pounds to 345.9.  Considering how I ate the past 2 week, I can live with that!

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Me 10.25.09

The top picture was sometime this spring.  The bottom pic is Saturday at the salon.  I think I see less fullness in my face.  When I hit 30 pounds, I'll do a full body shot again for comparison.  There have definitely been some changes.

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Stayed within my calories yesterday and today!  Yay me!

Going to Cracker Barrel tomorrow night with my Dessert-ers small group.  I'm going to have the Double Chocolate Fudge Coca Cola cake.  783 calories.  I've already entered it into my palm pilot so I can plan around it.  Gonna take a spinach salad w/a couple of hard boiled eggs for lunch, and were having soup and grilled cheese for dinner. 

Made tomato spinach basil soup and bread from scratch today.  Quite the Betty Crocker!  Both turned out really good.  With the soup, I was looking for recipes for comfort food that incorporated veggies I actually like, because there aren't many.  Only 208 calories per serving, and I get in lots of good veggies and antioxidants and stuff!

Went over by only 20 calories, and that includes a late night snack.  Starting fresh again tomorrow.

I compared my labs from last week to 5/18, and there are several improvements.  5/18 stats are listed first, then 10/13.

A1C          6.2  6.1

Cholesterol          178  161

Triglycerides          148  106

HDL          42  42

LDL          106  98

glucose          144  117

I'm very happy with those trends, and so should my employee-mandated testing be in December.

You may assume by my lack of blogging that I've been eating poorly.  Tuesday in particular I was eating for comfort.  I went to the visitation for a 36 year old friend, mother and cancer victim.  Completely unfair situation.  I wanted comfort food.  It was not an accident; I jumped in with both feet and my eyes wide open.  And I just kinda kept eating all week.  I generally did well during the day, but ate too much in the evening, which has always been my difficult time.  I was planning on eating big at the Covered Bridge Festival, but really didn't do too badly.  Too cold for my pumpkin ice cream!  Tried to get back on the wagon yesterday, but ate too much at dinner again.  I'm doing well so far today, and will try to stay within in my budget for dinner tonight.

My rings aren't moving around much, so I'm sure I've gained.  Fortunately, I don't weigh again until next week.  I need to get back on my budget, so I can keep progressing.  17 pounds is a good start, but there is a long way to go. 

I need to start thinking about what my reward will be for 30 pounds.  Maybe a dress.  Or some new shirts for layering.  I also need to start planning holiday strategies.  I need a really good, tasty, low cal snack to depend on.  Not just veggies or fruit.  I need to do some research.

WooHoo!  Down 17.2 in 3 months!  I'm very happy with that.  My doctor was, too.  Had to have an appointment for a med check and blood work.  BP was great, weight is down.  Anticipating good things from blood work, too.  I don't know how much my weight loss will affect my insulin levels, but as I loose more it can only help.  I'm supposed to be taking metformin twice a day, but it messes with my bathroom function too much, so I'm switching to metformin XR, which should help.  I'll keep you posted!

Or, not so much struggling as giving in.  Not sure if I'm just in a 3 month slump or what, but I want to eat a lot lately.  And I've been giving in every other day or so.  Yesterday, good.  Today, not so much.  Probably too many trigger foods today.  Salty and greasy make me want to eat more, more, more.  I was under my calories by 64 for today, but I just got home from rehearsal and was hungry and really wanted a bologna sandwich.  So I had it, which puts me over by 428.  Not the end of the world, I suppose, but it will add up come weigh in.

That being said, I do have a doctor's appointment on Monday, and I will weigh then, so maybe that will be incentive not to go too far overboard.  I don't want a huge water weight gain to detract from what I've done since I've seen the doctor last.  I was contemplating another sandwich (not hungry, just wanted it) but that will keep me from doing it.  Not worth it.

The 6 lb gain, that is.  Along w/an extra .1.  348.6, for a total of 12.8 lbs loss since 7/17.  Slow, but I am learning to change habits that have been ingrained in me for 42 years.  I can, and will do this!