My last weight loss journey; the p word

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In my last weight loss post, I mentioned binge watching Autumn Bates on YouTube. I’ve posted a link below. 

So what have I learned? Way back in the day, I did Dr. Atkins and lost a bunch of weight. Got down to where I could wear some size 12 jeans. That was the smallest I’ve been in my adult life. I jokingly say, one day I ate a Reecie (Reese’s for those who don’t speak country) cup and it all came back. 

All joking aside, the heaviest I’ve ever been was 265. A couple of us were looking at one of those how much you should weigh based on your height charts. Morbidly Obese for my 5 foot 5 inch frame. That absolutely broke my heart. Morbidly Obese. 

I don’t remember having a wide variety of food growing up. We ate lots of potatoes and beans, corn bread. My grandma always had a big garden. It could be a skew from my memory but I think we had potatoes of some form with every meal. Fried potatoes with breakfast. Really don’t think I’ve ever met a potato I didn’t like. You know how much protein is in a potato? A medium-sized potato with skin (5.3 oz) has about 2.5 to 3 grams of protein. 

Potato salad, baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, au-gratin, roasted, straight up boiled, chips, stuffed. Oh, have you ate a stuffed potato. Restaurants are putting everything but the kitchen sink in a potato. Hmmm, so good. Potato skins, twice baked potatoes, French fries. I think my point has been made. 🤣

That same potato has 26 gms of total carbohydrates. 

As you read, I love potatoes. But I can’t have them all day everyday. They need to be (for me) an every now and then special. 

What have I been learning, I need more protein in my life. A typical breakfast; bagel with cream cheese and coffee. Lunch; whatever pasta leftover from the night before. Dinner; pasta, a sandwich, pizza. 

It seemed I was always craving sugar. Snacks didn’t stand a chance around me. Cakes, pies, cookies, ice cream, doughnuts, all the sugar. While I realize it’s still snacking, I’m eating meat sticks, pork rinds, and cheeses. Granny Smith are my favorite apples. And I’m trying to add more low sugar fruits and berries. And I’m more aware of the sugar content in the foods I buy. 

While I hate reading labels, I hate food journaling the most. But slowing down on a carb heavy diet does seem to have helped with the sugar cravings. As of writing this up, I can feel a little difference in my clothes. 

Here’s what I’ve started doing; more protein. Breakfast is now more like an omelet. I refer to them as Kitchen Sink scramble. 🤣 And coffee. Lunch; I found these pizzas at Kroger (sure I’m gonna burn myself out) cauliflower crust, uncured pepperonis and a salad. This week I bought beef patties and fixed them for lunch. Dinner; is my ‘free meal’ but I have been more aware of my portion sizes and yes, a bite of dessert. 

Sadly, my grocery bill has gone over the moon. The pizza mentioned above (regular price) is $8.99 but I make 2 meals out of it. Cottage cheese, Greek yogurt (or high protein yogurt), meat sticks and nuts ain’t cheap. 

Someone brought doughnuts into work the other day and I didn’t eat a single one. We had cake to celebrate June’s birthdays, and I ate what one person called a sniff. It would be nothing for me to eat a whole regular size bag of popcorn or chips. And I have been known to eat a pack of cookies over the course of a day. I did splurge on an ice cream sandwich.

More protein, less carbs and sugar and less snacking.

Did I need someone to tell me that I was eating too many carbs verses protein? I guess I did. I want that bag of Doritos. And I don’t mean the 12 chip serving. Instead, I’ll take a meat stick and a slice of cheese without the desire to chase it with a cookie. 

I have also discovered LMNT. I push mow my yard. It’s my exercise right now. You can learn more about them with the link provided. https://drinklmnt.com. If you place an order from LMNT and use this link; I get a free sample pack. http://elementallabs.refr.cc/default/u/jolenerice

When I last weighed myself, I’d last 8 pounds. Then I went on vacation. 🤣

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20 thoughts on “My last weight loss journey; the p word”

      1. True, but most I’ve encountered act disappointed in me if I don’t drop down to my ideal weight between visits. Because 50 lbs is just a walk in the park in their minds.

        🙂

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      2. Yeah, I hear you. I have a story about that I’ll share soon. The short part, a doctor wanted to put me on a GLP1 when they were first becoming popular. They scared me then and they scare me now.

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      3. I took ozempic before it was a thing and didn’t think it worked as well as everyone told me it would and didn’t like how I always felt… gross. Food started to disgust me (no matter how much or little, even my favorite foods) and that didn’t seem all that much healthier than overindulging.

        I’m glad it works for some folks, but I only lost something like 10-15 lbs over a year I used it. Hardly worth the skin popping and cost.

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      5. That sounds about right. If it was anything like my experience, he felt like he was always just on the verge of losing his lunch. Not quite nauseous… it was like you had to consider each bite before taking one to make sure it was actually going to go in (not worry so much if it was going stay in, if that makes sense).

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      9. We have to think about food enough. Learning how to eat according to your body type and activity levels is stressful enough without being afraid it’s going to make you throw up. Or worse.

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  2. i think it is wonderful that you are consciously finding things that work for you. in order for me to lose weight I have to eat like 900 calories a day (my body does not care if it is steak or M&M’s) for the rest of my life- and I know I could never do it. So I sit at my current weight where I can eat within reason anything (staying at approx 1400 calories a day)- and just be pleasingly plump.

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    1. Everyone body is so different. And (I believe) it’s so important for us individually to learn what works best for our bodies and stop listening to the fashion industry’s definition of health and beauty. It’s kinda sad that it’s taken me years to be learning this. But better late than never. “Pleasing plump”, I haven’t heard that in a long time. It gives me hope and insight when women are happy with the skin they are in.

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      1. I took what is coming up on a year to just eat like a normal person after I retired. I gain nearly 30 lbs but!!!! I can eat more than once a day now and have fruit chips dessert all the things I never ate before. So change of diet less physical activity equals thirty pounds in my case but ya know what? I don’t spend my every waking moment thinking about food any more either. And to me it’s worth it.

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  3. We’re cutting out carbs 4 days a week. It’s hard at first but then your body does adjust and you realize a lot of that stuff was really making you sick. Unfortunately, it’s easy to fall off the wagon, but I think at our age every little bit helps.

    You hit the nail on the head with the grocery bills. We’ve all been conditioned to buy and consume cheap shit that’s no good for you. Thanks so much, Nestle, Kraft, Nabisco and all you other silent killers. Glad your profits are through the roof. Hope you rot.

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    1. I think in the beginning some of the process food was for the right reasons. But as we have become more of a profit driven society, those good intentions have become a thing of the past.

      Yes, I agree. And some of those food stuffs are designed to make us addicted to them so we will buy more. Regardless of the health costs.

      Keep up the good fight. Good luck to you and your wife on your health journeys.

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