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30 March 2018

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
66.1 kg	0.5 kg	5.4 kg	Reasonably Well

Add Comment Losing 0.6 kg a Week

27 March 2018

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
66.4 kg	0.3 kg	5.6 kg	Reasonably Well

(4 comments) Losing 0.3 kg a Week

25 March 2018

Cooking day today! Every weekend I cook up a whole week's worth of breakfast, lunches, dinners, and snacks. I know it might be boring to others, but I'm fine with eating the same meals for a week at a time - as long as it's not one of my experimental culinary disasters (luckily, infrequent!!) - I'll eat 'em, but I'm not happy about it!

I've already made some spinach patties on Friday night for snacking, and I plan to round those out with fruit. Today I'll be making a tofu quiche with potato crust for breakfast, along with something called "Carrot Cake Muffins" from a cookbook (there's only a couple of tablespoons of sugar in the whole 6 servings, and I'm replacing that with fake sugar; I'm also replacing some of the fat with a banana). Lunch this week will be Minestrone soup, stuffed with veggies, beans, whole wheat pasta, and barley - I'll top it with a smidgeon of parmesan when I serve it.

And finally supper is going to be a meatless loaf, with lots of veggies, oatmeal, and bulgur wheat; and a low-fat cauliflower casserole with a cashew-nut based sauce replacing the cheese. :)

I used to think that there was only one diet - eat fewer calories and exercise - but I'm beginning to realize that there are a lot of variations on that theme. I kind of figured out what I can and can't eat by trial and error... lots and lots of error! :)

I developed some sort of IBS thing a couple of years back, and at one point the docs put me on a low carb diet to see if it would help (it didn't) - I had fun digging up recipes on the internet and did a LOT of cooking with coconut in various forms and eating a lot of whole eggs. I'm not saying coconut and eggs are bad for everyone, but for me it seemed to be disastrous! My total cholesterol was 158 in 2016 (53 HDL, 89 Triglycerides, 87 HDL). One year later the numbers were up: 209 total, with 66 HDL, 163 (!) Triglycerides, and 110 LDL. The doc had me drop the coconut cold turkey and go down to one egg every other day. Four months later, my total cholesterol was UP to 233 and my LDL was up to 143!!! :( At least my triglycerides were under control (100) and my HDL was better (69), but since heart disease runs in my family, I was a little panicked. So now I'm trying to desperately to get my diet and exercise plan to the point that I won't need any meds...

I've been reading about everyone's diets with great interest - I think it's absolutely fascinating that there are so many kinds of metabolisms! I'm doing the low fat, low sugar, high fiber thing because it's either that or statins for me... the fact that I killed my gallbladder a few decades ago, means that I've been eating low fat for a long time now, anyway (too much fat puts my intestines into turmoil!)...

Anyway, I hope everyone has a good week!

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
66.5 kg	0.2 kg	5.7 kg	Reasonably Well

(17 comments) Losing 2.5 kg a Week

24 March 2018

Hmmmm.... weight creeping up again... It's early days, yet, so maybe my body is just getting used to having fewer calories. I have to remind myself that I'm NOT doing this for the potential weight loss (though it would certainly be nice!), but to get my cholesterol numbers back in check - so I'll just keep plugging on. Maybe a weekly check rather than every morning would help to keep me a little saner, and then I can make a decision on whether to change things or not then.

I went through the diet listings last night and realized that my goals and diet ideas most closely match the American Heart Association's plan ("AHA Healthy Heart Lifestyle Guidelines"), so I switched - when I clicked on the "members" link, I discovered that I'm all by myself! I guess I'm out of step with the times, but I'm getting older, so that's okay...

I found a beginner's weight training exercise on YouTube yesterday - super easy, but I wanted to start at the easy end of the spectrum so I don't end up hurting something I might need later... it was actually kind of fun! :)

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
66.9 kg	0 kg	6.1 kg	Reasonably Well

Add Comment Gaining 1.3 kg a Week

23 March 2018

Weight:	Lost so far:	Still to go:	Diet followed:
66.7 kg	0 kg	5.9 kg	Reasonably Well

Add Comment Gaining 1.9 kg a Week

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