When I lost 110 pounds I ate and trained like an
athlete. After that I was looking for
normal and did not maintain my strict regimen.
I don’t want to maintain that strict regimen. Eating and exercising like clockwork and
limiting social appearances is not fun.
But being thin is fun. I am
trying to learn how to do the fun things I enjoy and look rockin’ hot doing
it. It’s a journey.
I had no weigh outs this week, only one weigh in. Three weeks from tomorrow I plan to have a
weigh out every Monday/Tuesday. I plan to
enter enough competitions they roll back to back.
Last Wednesday I had court in Broward County in the
morning. At 1:30 I set off for court in
West Palm Beach. At 6 I went to a
charity event where I was supposed to join a friend, except she wasn’t
there. I sat next to a really nice guy. He was big and on a diet. He ordered chicken wings and gave me some. He also insisted on giving me his chair, men,
take note. I sure am glad that guy gave
me wings because the event was so packed I never saw a waiter the rest of the
night. I have never left a restaurant so
hungry. I ate when I came home, too
much.
Thursday I was going down the elevator after work with a
young, small female attorney. She always
hauls a really large insulated lunch box, the size of a small cooler. I asked what she packed, lunch and two
snacks. I asked what she brought, a
sandwich for lunch, cookies and fritos for snacks. I asked if she ate breakfast. She does, cereal, milk and a banana. She likes to eat the same thing every
day. I would weigh 300 pounds if I ate
like this tiny female. But I went home
that night and, once again, ate too much for dinner. I knew why.
It was because I ate a salad with chicken for lunch at about noon. I was ravenous at dinner. I need snacks. They keep me from eating too much for dinner.
On Friday night I went out with my friend Nancy, who is an
elite Yelper. What does that mean? Nancy writes a lot of review for Yelp. People like Nancy’s reviews. She won an award last year.
Nancy was going to a Yelp karaoke event. She wanted to take me. I am a good singer. There were a lot of good singers that night.
Prior to karaoke Nancy made a dinner reservation at a nice
restaurant. We were four. I was the only non-elite Yelper. I saw, and liked, how elite Yelpers eat. We ordered quite a few appetizers. We all ate a little. I was very proud of my eating. I had a good time. I woke up in the morning feeling oh-so-terrible. I cannot remember the last morning I woke up
feeling so badly, gastrointestinal. What
could it be? I didn’t eat too much.
I think I know. I had
two signature cocktails in that fancy restaurant, girly drinks.
The karaoke event was at a coffee
house. I drank two kombuchas (fermented
tea). A Yelper purchased and handed me a
glass of red wine. I hadn’t asked for
it. I drank it. I also drank iced coffee (no sugar). The signature cocktails were drank between
7-8. I left the coffee house at
midnight. I believe I felt so sick
because of the high concentration of sugar in the two signature cocktails. I think there may have also been sugar in the
kombucha. I sometimes buy kombucha at
the grocery store. It is not high in
sugar. But at the grocery store drinks
are labeled, this is not the case in restaurants. It makes restaurants dangerous.
I gained a significant amount of weight overnight and felt
sick for a couple days. That’s what
happens when you go from pretty clean eating, or at least nearly sugar-free
eating to sugar eating, gastrointestinal pain.
I used to not drink.
But then I started hanging out with my friend, Davilicious. He likes to drink. I found I can drink with Davilicious and
still lose weight. But we’re not making
coconut mojitos and acai caipirinhas at his house.
I was talking to a very nice lawyer about weight loss ahead
of Wednesday’s hearing. He expressed his
calories-in/calories-out philosophy. I
respectfully disagree. Someone
complained on DietBet she ate shrimp scampi and gained 4 lbs in one meal. For me, sugar is dangerous as all get out.
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