I took a break last month from talking about my weight loss journey. My goal was to hit 250 pounds by the end of June. And I didn’t make it. I still haven’t made it, two weeks later. But I am getting closer and closer! This morning, I hit 251.4 pounds. It was tempting not to eat and just try to keep going to the bathroom until I could hit 250-point something, so I could say that I did it. But I know that’s not healthy. And I was hungry. What worries me is that I will be away next week at Hindman for the Appalachian Writers Workshop, so I may not hit it next week, either. I also won’t have a way of weighing in while I am gone. Unless I take my scale with me. Which has actually occurred to me. Then I wonder if that is going a little overboard…
Logging food next week will be very difficult, too. I will be at the mercy of other people’s recipes and with no measuring devices of my own. I’ve just re-started Noom, and my two weeks free trial ends the day I leave to go to Hindman. I’m undecided about sticking with it this time. Realistically, am I going to take the time to do the lessons daily while I’m away? I’ve already been away from the gym for over 3 weeks. Although I will be walking around on-campus next week, so there will be some walking in my daily activities.
I’ve started slacking in the exercise department in a major way. No two ways about it. But I’m still taking off weight. I hope to get back into a routine after the first part of August, when I’m going on a 4-day beach jaunt with a couple of friends to Surfside Beach, SC. I need a re-commitment service, I keep joking with myself. I guess just starting to show up again and putting in the work will suffice. It doesn’t need to be glitzy or glam. Show up instead of showing off. And stick with it. I’ll admit that part of me wants to hit 250 before I re-commit, though. So I’m starting a whole new chapter for everything all at once. I don’t know if that makes sense or not. I’m just ready to turn a great big page, and have everything sorta reset itself. Start a new weight goal. Recommit to gym time. Recommit to healthier eating. Just keep getting things done from a new set of starting points…
I got good news of a different sort this week. In Noom we call it a NSV – Non-Scale Victory. My A1C is down to 5.8 from 6.3 in April and down from either 6.9 or 7.1 in January. So I’m seeing the benefits of losing the weight and making healthier decisions for my body in ways beyond the numbers on the scale. That feels great! I rarely need to use insulin now and my body really does react to things in healthier ways now.
I discovered a low-calorie ice cream/frozen yogurt snack this week, too, through the Noom support group – Yasso. Divine! It’s 100 calories per bar. However, I’m also a pretty big fan right now of white mushrooms (4 calories per mushroom) and Mt. Olive Kosher Baby Dill Pickles (5 calories per pickle), and both of those are “green” foods in Noom, so I can have as much of them as my heart desires. While no food is off-limits in Noom, Yasso is a “red” food, and I’m supposed to limit red food calories to 300 per day on a 1200 calorie/day intake. I go over most days, but I’m getting better again. I don’t always go over 1200 calories in a day, so that’s good. I’m making progress. It’s a process, as is everything with weight loss and learning to do better things for my body.
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