It's me -again! Now down 32.4 pounds (Day 82) and in Love :)

Lady_Magenta

The scale showed 315.6 lbs this morning. I have lost 32.4 pounds since September. I am all smiles. I have started to take pictures of myself. Not too pretty, but very honest. I will be a success story, so I will need them. :-)

I am sugar-free (no added sugar), and the other day, I decided to eat the old soy yogurt that had been waiting patiently in our fridge. Raspberry! 13 g added sugar sigh. My favorite and I could not eat it. It was way too sweet—disgustingly sweet. I did not finish it; I just couldn't. I love fruits now. I have one or two pieces every day.

I am gluten-free and dairy-free (health reasons autoimmune disorder) and it's now a lifestyle and it feels all normal.

I still weigh everything and Iog it. I am always around 1300 - 1600 calories. I halved my portions (they were way too big) and I have now started to annoy my husband when I tell him he eats too much, which is true. We both ate too much for too long.

Am in love I think!
Why? And how?

When you meet the right partner, you don't have cheating on your mind. You look in his or her eyes and that's all you will see. No other man, no other woman will be interesting anymore. You are happy and satisfied with what you have. After a while (a year or ten+) you need to work on your relationship a bit. It's a neverending compromise, a daily commitment, a daily adjustment.

I am not a diet, I have changed my way of living and I love my new lifestyle. I have fallen in love with the feeling it gives me. I don't miss a thing. I don't have cheating on my mind. We will have a healthier Thanksgiving, because of me. I have put my needs now first, the family has to adjust, for 30 years it was the other way around. Guess what. They don't have a problem with it.

Of course, I will serve some of their favorites, how could I not? But I will not touch them, because I won't need to.

I have lost the weight the good old-fashioned way and will continue doing so. Turns out I never needed help, just a different mindset. Isn't it hilarious? Now that "help" is available in the form of injections I don't need and don't want them.

I think as long as we love what we are doing, no matter of work or in the kitchen cooking, we will succeed.

Happy Thanksgiving! And if you have cheating on your mind. Ask yourself why?
(A piece of pie or a Thanksgiving meal is not cheating, it's a treat you deserve if you don't have health issues.)

Life is good!

xbowhunter

Sounds like you have it all figured out!

Lady_Magenta

xbowhunter wrote: »

Sounds like you have it all figured out!

I don't have it all figured out, but it feels right. I have spent forty years yoyo dieting. I don't think there is a 'diet' that I haven't tried. Turns out it's not about a diet, it's about a plan that works for me in the long run. It feels right.

I don't feel deprived or unsatisfied. I feel good.