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I am done losing weight or even caring if I lose any more.
That's not a negative statement, nor one of defeat. This is pure joy! I am very happy with me these days. According to the BMI index (please, no flaming, I know the BMI is bogus but my doctor likes to talk about it) I am still in the "overweight" range at 26.1, but I am so so far from the 41.2 that my doc has in his charts from a year ago, that we can all be happy with this number.
As for me, I'm 55, married for 30 years to a man who loved me at my largest and has never seen me the size I am now. He too has lost over 90lbs so we are brand new people as we approach our retirement ages. We have settled on the low-carb way of eating for the rest of our lives and we are both comfortable with our standard fare.
Thanks to my local Goodwill, I have an entire closet full of clothes that I love and wear comfortably. I discovered $1-Day where everything of a certain tag color is $1, no matter what. I have name brand clothes and shoes (I lost a SHOE SIZE! Who even knew?) that I got for $1. Since I am now a true size Medium, the selection in my size is phenomenal! So much more fun that picking 1 of the 5 items in size 3X.
So I said all that to say that I probably won't be posting as much in the future. I may (or I may not) lose those final 7 pounds to put me at the goal I arbitrarily picked when I started a year ago. It is a number that would make my BMI 25, or "normal". Do I really care? No. One of the many things I've learned on this journey is that numbers are suggestive. My number on the scale, the BMI numbers, and even clothing size numbers are all superfluous. What matters is that I can wear nice clothes, look good in them, feel good living my life, and most of all, be healthy.
I have a tiny blog I started when all my friends kept asking me the same questions about how in the world I managed to lose all that weight. It's nothing professional and probably never will be, but if you want to follow my Keto journey and see some of the lessons I learn(ed) along the way, here's the link:
https://lowcarblivinginmaine.blogspot.com
Have a blessed day!
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1260 kcal
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Fat: 98.44g | Prot: 63.89g | Carbs: 34.53g.
Breakfast: McDonald's Coffee Creamer, Regular Coffee. Lunch: Joseph's Reduced Carb Flax, Oat Bran & Whole Wheat Pita Bread, Hellmann's Real Mayonnaise, Wendy's Double Cheeseburger (No Bun). Dinner: Hershey's Sugar Free Chocolate Syrup, Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla Milk, Great Value Small Curd Cottage Cheese, Driscoll's Strawberries, Nestle Media Crema Table Cream. Snacks/Other: Kerrygold Salted Butter, Polaner Sugar Free Strawberry Preserves with Fiber, Mikey's Sliced Bread. more...
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