Saturday, April 13, 2019

Proof of Weight Maintenance April 2019

Proof

I'm still maintaining 65.6 pounds. Not 70, but heyyyyyy after 7+ years, almost 8 years of food sober living. This is great. I'm living a great life, no complaints here. I was a child with obesity in the 1970's. I'm living my dream life. Just saying!!! So happy and proud of myself.


What's working for me

1. Abstaining from my trigger foods

  • Grains, nuts, emulsifiers like guar and xanthan gum

2. Tracking my weight daily

  • stopped tracking my food but getting back to it now. Volume creep is a thing for me.
  • Not binge eating tho, 
  • but overall better results with tracking

3. Managing my stress. Holy Crap, just cycled through some usual stressors

  • Life stresses happen, no need to sooth with food 

4. Recovered from the first real cold of 2018-2019. No cold products used.

  • (first episodes were actually allergies in late 2018 due to wind/pollen/spores). 

5. Dairy free

  • should ward off any sinus infections, because dairy was associated with my sinus infections.

6. Listened to epic podcasts including Bret Scher, MD- aka the Low Carb Cardiologist on the HPO podcast.

  • EVERYBODY needs a little Low Carb Cardiologist in their life, well, okay, this is only my 2 cents, but I do love his podcasts and interviews on other podcasts.

7. Meat off the bone, since Dr. Scher gave us some good talking points and I don't have to fear cholesterol in animal products

  • I know from my small ion mobility cholesterol panel, my CAC score, and my CIMT results that my heart attack risk is low.
  • Something about meat off the bone gives me good satiety signals. I feel awesome!
  • I use the hashtag #yest2meat if eating meat has helped you stay in weight maintenance

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What didn't work for me in the past:

1. Moderating all foods, foods with fake sugar that may have triggered my binge eating
2. Avoiding the the scale and pretending I wasn't gaining weight. LOL. Not effective
3. Using sweets and binge eating to sooth myself during work stress, didn't work, got fat pants. SAD.
4. My colds lasted for 3+ weeks ending in sinus infections and cold products.
5. Dairy caused a sinus infection after every cold. I do not miss antibotics & the headaches and pain
6. I used to live in a low fat, WW echo chamber. Podcasts keep me up to date and learning more
7. I used to be afraid of protein. Now I eat either lean protein and meat of the bone to meat my body comp goals. No fear, animal protein is here to stay in my life. I had no idea I had to include it to balance my hungry/full hormones.  I was too busy choosing low point WW processed soy products.

Graphs, cool photos and onward into another month. May will mark 8 years of food sober living. Yay!

Hope you are all well. Part 2 of the food addiction series- my take aways is the next topic.

Shredded beef, pumpkin seeds, avocado, carrots Paleo, Low Carb Salad

Swami's Meditation Gardens, Encinitas, CA

Cat Sphinx Calendar, with tortitutde







6 comments:

  1. Your are a star Karen! Maintaining is difficult... I know. I'm totally back on track and only 3 kilos off where I will be happy. I have a deadline of 5 weeks until our big holiday so it's forced me to get seriously back into good eating.

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    1. I can't wait to follow you on MY dream trip. And if for any reason I don't ever make it to the places you are traveling, just know I will have experienced some of it through you. :) Safe travels and kudos for getting close to your goal. The work done close to goal is the most rewarding and hardest sometimes. Bravo!!

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    2. Got your last message. Thank you, Lynda!!!!

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  2. I love it!!! You are doing great! I love the way you broke it down into what works and what you are doing versus what didn’t work! I was nodding my head with your lists!!!

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  3. I'm so glad to see that all is well with you! My half ass efforts have yo-yo'ed all around over the years. I'm back on a downward trend though so YEAH! Everytime a song comes on with a good beat that I start to wiggle to in the house I think of you!

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    1. Good to hear from you Mrs. Swan!!! Glad you are on a favorable trend!!

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