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jayfurrI'm down to 185 pounds or so. I'm aiming for 180 by New Year's because that puts me close to my 'ideal weight' (I'm a 6'2 male with the normal number of arms and legs) and then I can go on a weight-maintenance diet instead of a weight-loss diet. I have every intention of being one of those success stories where the weight stays off instead of quickly coming back.
I'm also waiting to get to that goal before beginning the wholesale purchasing of new clothing. Right now my jeans are really loose and baggy. I've already ordered a new belt and two new pairs of jeans and a new suit (which you may have seen on Facebook -- I modeled it for Carole last night and she had me pose for photos), but I suspect that in the end I may need to buy a LOT of new pants. It looks weird when you're wearing your pants all bunched up under the belt to keep them from falling down. Not that I'm complaining.
The funny thing about all this weight loss is that I did it absolutely the wrong way. Everyone always says that if you fast, you won't lose weight because your body goes into starvation mode.
Well, it worked for me.
Between all the long road walks I did to prep for the Breast Cancer 3-Day and cutting my caloric consumption back by around 1,500 calories a day, from the theoretical 2,900 I need to maintain weight to a bare-bones 1,400, the pounds melted off, often two and a half to three pounds a week. I'd get up in the morning in whatever hotel room I was in that week, have two cups of coffee, continue to drink coffee all day at the customer site, and then come back and eat 1,400 calories worth of vegetarian meat substitutes (like Gardenburgers or Boca Burgers or seitan or TVP or tofu), beans, salad, and stuff like that, and go to bed faintly hungry but able to get by. It worked. "Shouldn't have", but it did. I lost 40 pounds between the beginning of August, when I really started the strict diet, and right now.
Tonight I think I'll go home and, just for the extreme humor value, I'll eat an entire Costco bag of broccoli florets (the jumbo bag) tossed with fat-free Bolthouse Farms honey mustard yogurt dressing. Woo! I live such an exciting life.
I'm also waiting to get to that goal before beginning the wholesale purchasing of new clothing. Right now my jeans are really loose and baggy. I've already ordered a new belt and two new pairs of jeans and a new suit (which you may have seen on Facebook -- I modeled it for Carole last night and she had me pose for photos), but I suspect that in the end I may need to buy a LOT of new pants. It looks weird when you're wearing your pants all bunched up under the belt to keep them from falling down. Not that I'm complaining.
The funny thing about all this weight loss is that I did it absolutely the wrong way. Everyone always says that if you fast, you won't lose weight because your body goes into starvation mode.
Well, it worked for me.
Between all the long road walks I did to prep for the Breast Cancer 3-Day and cutting my caloric consumption back by around 1,500 calories a day, from the theoretical 2,900 I need to maintain weight to a bare-bones 1,400, the pounds melted off, often two and a half to three pounds a week. I'd get up in the morning in whatever hotel room I was in that week, have two cups of coffee, continue to drink coffee all day at the customer site, and then come back and eat 1,400 calories worth of vegetarian meat substitutes (like Gardenburgers or Boca Burgers or seitan or TVP or tofu), beans, salad, and stuff like that, and go to bed faintly hungry but able to get by. It worked. "Shouldn't have", but it did. I lost 40 pounds between the beginning of August, when I really started the strict diet, and right now.
Tonight I think I'll go home and, just for the extreme humor value, I'll eat an entire Costco bag of broccoli florets (the jumbo bag) tossed with fat-free Bolthouse Farms honey mustard yogurt dressing. Woo! I live such an exciting life.
