Good morning! (too dang early if you ask me). I have good news, at least for me--I weighed in at 149.4 this morning. Haven't seen that weight since last August.
However, I have a confession to make. These are the cheap and easy pounds (relatively speaking). 150 (and in the area) is one of my notch weights, and future pounds will have to be wrestled for ounces at a time. I mainly lost this weight by not pigging out at supper and by diligently avoiding those (oh, man!) delicious looking doughnuts that people have been bringing in.
First maxim: Defensive snacking. If you are eating healthy snacks (fruit, no-salt rice cakes), it is a LOT easier to walk by those blasted chocolate doughnuts (yes, even the ones with the sprinkles. One thing I saw by the box with the doughnuts, though, is a knife--so people can take only a portion of those giant bearclaws, and not eat the whole thing. So, defensive snacking, and minimizing the damage by having only a little bit can help.
And so does not pigging out on supper every night. However, it is a good idea to schedule a Pig Out Day periodically (just not every day). The reason for that? I have found out through trial and error that if I eat 1200 calories day after day, I will not lose weight, because my metabolism will adjust to it just fine, thank you. Now, if I was stranded somewhere or lost my job, this might actually be a very good thing. But over the long run, it's a pain in the butt.
But boy, am I ever happy about getting below 150!
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