Morning chicks!
Motivation level: 8
I feel a good day coming on! Today's my day off, and there's an avocado waiting for me in the kitchen, so all is well. I'm going to get my taxes done, and clean my room, and exercise, and drink lots of water! Period! I'm also going to find that free gym pass so I can eventually use it.
As for the South Beach update I referred to in my last post... yeah, so I'm a little disappointed that my weight loss has slowed already, and I'm over a week in and still craving carbs like a fiend, and I feel slightly nauseaus all the time. A few years back I had my dr. put me on diet pills, and I felt like there was a giant ball of gas in my stomach all the time, and it made me not want to eat (but I did anyway, because I still got hungry--therefore the diet pills weren't very helpful), and that's what I feel like now. I think that Phase 2 might be better, since I get to add back in some carbs, like whole-grain bread. Maybe that will soak up some of whatever it is in my stomach. I'm going to stick it out with the SBD for another week of Phase 1, plus 1 week of Phase 2, then I'll decide if I'm going to stick with it long-term or not.
If anyone else has tried South Beach or any other form of low-carb, have you experienced that problem, or am I just weird? (I know I'm weird, and I'm ok with that, but you know what I mean!
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Ok... comments!
ChickNextDoor: Welcome to the group! We're a great bunch of chicks!
Joy: I think you're right--we were ALL experiencing Extreme Tazer Lag! Someone needs to dust off that tazer and get us moving!
Lisa: I wish we had some water aerobics classes around here. I love being in the water! (I was a lifeguard during high school.) And if it helps you get healthy, that's an added bonus! And I hope everything goes well with your surgery. It's a good idea to keep up with the exercise and diet until then, too--exercise improves your body's resiliency so you'll bounce back even faster!
Julie: As for something I meant to say about 2 weeks ago... avocados are great. There's guacamole, of course, which I could spread on just about anything--it's great on hamburgers. I also like them chopped up in scrambled eggs, or strips in any sort of wrap, or sliced and grilled--they're great on sandwiches. Or in salads. Or as a dip. Anyway, the hiking sounds like a good time. I wish I had someone to hike with too (Steve's not a big hiker). Of course, the mountains I live in aren't excessively large, but they're still mountains! And on the starting slow thing, I think that's a good way to go about it. We have to start somewhere, and you need to make sure your body can handle it after all the sickness.
And on a completely different note...
February marks my 1-year anniversary here at 3FC, and also the 1-year anniversary of the most (and only!) successful diet I've ever been on, and because of that I'm thinking about how much I've accomplished in the past year. At this time last year I weighed about 240 pounds. But I started exercising and limiting my portions and I got down below 200. Then August came and it just stopped, and I crept back up over the holidays. The way things stand now, I'm back over 200 (barely) and I've hardly exercised in months.
The way I'm looking at it, this is my New Years. This is the time for me to renew my committment to losing weight, eating right, and exercising. If I can follow last year's pattern, I'll reach my goal weight of 160 by August (and hopefully I won't have to start over again next February!
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I know that one of the main things that helped me get where I am, helped me stay on track, was you chicks. And for that I am very grateful. Thank you.
It sounds like we're all ready to make another go at it, so let's go!
~Elisha