BBBBBBBBBBBBBBrrrrr!
After all my hand wringing about and adoring the super warm March weather we've had, tonight I'm COLD! Down to just about freezing tonight. Got some logs on the fire. But still...BRRR! I hope my plants survive. I got a little ahead of the weather and started puttering around in my garden, and even planted some of the hardier cold weather crops. Radishes. Cabbages. Lettuce and whatnot. We'll see how those guys do.
In other news I've lost 33 pounds since last October. I've passed the threshold from Obese to merely Overweight. This is awesome. Just another 27 pounds and I'm officially at a healthy weight. Then I gotta maintain. For the Rest...of...my...life. Let me say this: Weight loss is hard.
I don't much like to admit it to myself or others, but the weightloss journey has absorbed a large and central part of my life. Early on I thought it would be a side show. A portion of my life. Something I'd just have going on in the background. But since October I've thought about it just about every day.
I looked at all the diets: low carb, low fat, etc. etc. and figured out that pretty much everybody agrees on one thing: vegetables are good for you. So I figured I'd focus on that. More high volume low calorie foods like cabbage, and fewer low volume high calorie foods like breads.
So...
I don't eat beef as much as I did. I drink very little milk.
I don't eat breads or carbs in the quantity I used to.
I eat a lot of cabbage and vegetables. I genuinely enjoy cabbage and I eat a huge plate of it just about every day (there was an awesome cabbage sale at Meijer recently...9 cents per pound! I bought 8 heads). I occasionally fortify my cabbage with mustard greens or kale or green peppers. Usually I fry it up in olive oil or butter, maybe 4 to 5 cups of shredded cabbage fried up and then I put a couple of over easy eggs on top of it. I get the eggs from a guy down the street with chickens -- I get a mix of brown and blue eggs cuz the blue eggs look awesome. I put tons of hot sauce on it. Man do I love hot sauce these days.
Once I have a massive, heaping pile of veggies in the morning, it holds me over pretty good until 2 or 3 on a few hundred calories.
I eat more fish now...which is easier now that tilapia and whiting are cost comparable to beef and now cheaper than bacon.
Also, also...I take a little more time to exercise. Run around the yard more with the kids. Take a little walk. Do some push ups from time to time.
The theory I'm following right now is, whatever I do to lose weight I have to be able to do for the rest of my life or I'll just regain my weight. I'm not going to overdo it. I gotta be able to do what I'm doing forever.
I'm really enjoying being 33 pounds lighter. Sometimes I'll be walking along and I'll feel like I could just jump and float up into the sky. Also...I've noticed my At Rest heart rate has slowed significantly.
I didn't lose much in March. Maybe 2 pounds. That's fine. Baby steps. I'm still in the right direction. I'll lose the weight in April.
Howsabout you? Watching your weight?