O Hai
Haven't meant to be incommunicado for nearly three months, honest. Life has been busy and varied, and has given me much to think about. Will try to catch up on everything.
For corvus_imbrifer: Our Mutual Friend is Paracelsus: start here. And that other thing I mentioned. When do you want to go to dinner? I'm serious. It's years before another one of the kids has a significant birthday.
For everyone else:
Weight: When I started the OptiFast, I made a mental deal with myself to quit if Thomas ever allowed as how he thought I'd lost enough weight, and on January 28th, when I was at 152.8, he did. I went on Maintenance the next week, and it's just been kicking my ass. It's too easy to eat too much, or eat the wrong things because I know I can probably get away with it, and there was this whole world of stuff I hadn't eaten in six months. Maintenance is technically an 8-week program, although I can continue in it for the rest of my life if I want, and I can keep purchasing up to two servings a day of the OptiFast, too. I'd been thinking purely in terms of getting it behind me, and about two weeks ago I began to panic because I wasn't doing it right and I was running out of time. (I had a really bad week at Mardi Gras and put on 3.9 pounds--and wasn't that a shock, that I could put it on that fast.) So I went back on shakes for a couple of days to reset, and I gave myself permission to do Maintenance over again entirely if that's what it took, and to stay in it as long as I needed, and I relaxed almost immediately. I lost two of the pounds I put on, and I weighed 152.6 at last week's meeting.
I'm late to bed--more tomorrow.
For corvus_imbrifer: Our Mutual Friend is Paracelsus: start here. And that other thing I mentioned. When do you want to go to dinner? I'm serious. It's years before another one of the kids has a significant birthday.
For everyone else:
Weight: When I started the OptiFast, I made a mental deal with myself to quit if Thomas ever allowed as how he thought I'd lost enough weight, and on January 28th, when I was at 152.8, he did. I went on Maintenance the next week, and it's just been kicking my ass. It's too easy to eat too much, or eat the wrong things because I know I can probably get away with it, and there was this whole world of stuff I hadn't eaten in six months. Maintenance is technically an 8-week program, although I can continue in it for the rest of my life if I want, and I can keep purchasing up to two servings a day of the OptiFast, too. I'd been thinking purely in terms of getting it behind me, and about two weeks ago I began to panic because I wasn't doing it right and I was running out of time. (I had a really bad week at Mardi Gras and put on 3.9 pounds--and wasn't that a shock, that I could put it on that fast.) So I went back on shakes for a couple of days to reset, and I gave myself permission to do Maintenance over again entirely if that's what it took, and to stay in it as long as I needed, and I relaxed almost immediately. I lost two of the pounds I put on, and I weighed 152.6 at last week's meeting.
I'm late to bed--more tomorrow.