Translated from the Latin - Seize the day by the nuts!
After my post yesterday, I did the dirty deed...I weighed myself under duress. To my shock and surprise, I had lost another pound! Now down to 216. Despite the fact that I overate, I still lost weight, my only guess is that my regular routine of the exercise is paying off. If I had not overeaten or if I had at least stayed on my Reductionist Theory plan, I would have lost another pound, but I will take it.
So, nothing like good news to propel you out of your funk, not wanting to lose this new found "momentum", I got back on the plan yesterday and am moving forward with it again, with a little more optimism that I can complete this goal. Hopefully, with a little luck and allot of self control, I can drop 30 pounds of fat by summers end.
Yesterday, an interesting article about a study by Consumer Reports on diet effectiveness. Their conclusion is that the sage and standard common sense of Weight Watchers gives you the best chance at long term success, followed by the convenience of using Slim Fast. In their study, things like Atkins or South Beach lacked the long term usability that is necessary to keep the weight off. Here is the thing folks, after 20 years of trying and trying, losing and gaining, I can tell you unequivocally, all diets work, finding one that you can stay on, learning how to eat right forever, learning the inner drives that make you fat, these are the tough ones to find. Anyway to read the article (and view fun graphs) click here!
After 10 continues to be a problem for me, but I have been trying to hold back on what I eat until then to compensate. Last night I found a way to make eating ramen noodles more healthy - I just made the noodles and added a little frozen mixed vegetables. I tossed the salt packet that contains MSG (and enough sodium to get you through the Mojave), I added a little oyster sauce which contains a fraction of the salt instead. Not bad, hit the spot and stopped me from doing anything worse. I could always trying sleeping, but with so many blogs out there, who has time for that?
Exercise does work and finding fun things to treat yourself with that are free foods. My mom is a diabetic and I'm trying to avoid it, even though it is in my genes from several relatives. My doc says that exercise will help me not succumb to the genetic curse. The thought of never eating any more Wasabi chips or drinking any Hefe keeps me on the straight and narrow. (well, mostly!)
Posted by: Margaret | May 15, 2005 at 19:59
Love your blog! I can totally relate. I have went from 250 to 200 over the past year. I just hit 200 today. I never thought in a million years that I would be exciting to see the number 200 on a scale! The ONLY thing that really works for me is exercise. Eating healthly helps, but if I don't exercise, I just eat LOTS of healthy good and stay at the same weight or get fatter. (The pic on my blog is about four years old, by the way. I was 170 there, and I'm trying to work my way down to 150.)
Regarding the Austin comment made by your friend, are you one of them libruls? Cuz that's what we Austinites are known for. Freaks and libruls. Yep. For many, it is a compliment. Myself, I have happily joined the mainstream for the first time in my life, in Austin of all places...
Posted by: Michelle | May 13, 2005 at 12:51
I always find that I do better (exercise, not drinking) when I've had a bit of a victory. That extra pound seems to have been your victory to get you back on your program. Way to go!!
I'm the world's WORST about binging, especially late and night, and I never seem to crave anything healthy. Why can't I want things that are good for me??? Craziness.
Posted by: Faith | May 13, 2005 at 05:51