Weight Loss 2016 Week 5

I figured the easiest way to get this blog out every Monday is to start writing ahead of time. 

I beat the crap out of my first diet bet 0f 2016.  Yes, Victory!  I pulled more weight the day after I posted my last blog and lost 7.6% out of a 4% bet.  Not only that, but I ate really well Monday night:  steak and mushrooms with some red wine, so yum.   Last Tuesday I only had 1.6 pounds to lose to meet my next bet, which would also put me to that January 9^th goal to which I have been striving.  I was concerned about the Super Bowl, an eating holiday. 

I lost 110 pounds in 2013 and 2014.  In 2015 I tried to find normal.  There was no normal.  My daughter has had extensive orthodontic work.  We were always warned she must wear her retainer because her teeth want to go back.  My weight wants to come back.  So rather than finding normal I need to find normal within the dichotomy.  Marian wants to be her 150 pound best but there is some part of Marian’s body that says she is supposed to weigh more than 200 pounds.  I am not compromising, I am getting to 150.  The DietBet victory helped.  The real challenge isn’t 150.  You can go hard and get to that weight, but if you can’t stay there what good is it? 

Tuesday I was happy as a clam about my weight.  I ate right all day.  I ate dinner at about 3 PM.  The next morning I was up a pound.  Wednesday I ate right all day.  I skipped dinner.  I worked out for 2 hours.  Thursday morning I weigh exactly the same.  I am pissed.  Why is this not working?  I have a weigh in Tuesday morning.  I need to be 2 pounds down.  Pissed. 

My friend Nancy has lost 15 pounds over the last two months.  She is tiny, 15 pounds is a lot on her.  She eats one meal a day.  If she eats anything else throughout the day it is really tiny.  She describes to me how she went to a Burger place and had half a grilled cheese sandwich, a beer and a Frankberry Cereal Milkshake.  She talks about that milkshakes for two days.  I am jealous.  Nancy enjoys her food.  I would like to enjoy food.  Thursday I follow Nancy’s plan.  I eat at a luncheon:  prime rib, salad, potatoes (about a tablespoon, diced), green beans and chocolate pudding for desert.  They said it was mousse, it wasn’t.  I went to the gym for about an hour and 15 minutes.  I wake up the next morning the exact same weight.  At least I enjoyed lunch.

Friday I eat very little all day.  I go to a funeral where I eat, bad food, sweets.  I wake up in the morning another pound up. 

Saturday I ate exceptionally light.  I went out to dinner.  Sunday morning I am rewarded with the same weight I had Tuesday.  I am very happy.

Sunday I also ate exceptionally light, but then I went to a Super Bowl party and caved to that temptation and ate too much “bad” food.  I didn’t step on the scale this morning because the party was in Naples and that’s where I was.  I didn’t pack my scale, I think that would have sent me into paroxysms of self-loathing.  We’ll see if I can get myself back down in time for the weigh in.  I like Nancy’s system.  I’ll see if that can be my normal.