Unexpected Happy Lossses

Six months ago, I weighed two hundred and fourty-five pounds, and I had been on the Depo Provera shot for birth control for over 8 years.

I lost my medical coverage, and had to give up the shot, which meant the gradual and successive weight gain encouraged by the drug would likely stop, but that I would also have more inconvenience in my life. I loved my amenorrhea, and I miss it still.

Nobody I know has a scale, and when we moved, ours got packed away into the deep recesses of my mother's garage.

I've been wanting to loose weight and get back in shape, so about three months ago, I started visualizing myself at my ideal, healthy shape, and living the life I want with my family, ala "The Secret", creative visualization, and other methods based on quantum physics.

The key is to see yourself already there, and there will come to you instead of the other way around.

The last couple of weeks or so, folks have been telling me that I look like I've been loosing weight. As is very common for me, I told them that they were either hallucinating or delusional. *chuckle*

Keeb found a scale when we were cleaning out the garage, and the kids weighed themselves. The sounds of their announcing their weights are what clued me in to the discovery.

A while later, I saw that the scale was still out and figured I'd prove those poor, deluded souls wrong...

But when I stepped on the scale, I was in for a surprise; I weighed only two hundred and seventeen pounds!

Imagine the shock!

As one of thousands who aren't overweight because of a base lust for food and an inability to stop constantly eating massive amounts of dietarily worthless crap, I am glad to represent those of us who aren't fat because they have food issues. When you have no constant hunger or overeating problems, the Hoodia diet and other appetite suppressants can't help you drop the pounds. No amount of 'shake for breakfast, shake for lunch, reasonable dinner", or specialty diet program is going to help you get rid of a single ounce of extra poundage unless you actually were abusing food in the first place.

So I bought some V8 fruit blends for when I am too big a rush to make myself something worthwhile to eat, preventing me from snacking on crackers, burgers, or other things that are fast and stave off hunger for a bit, but are not necessarily really good for my body. Nice that I can input some whole foods the instant my body says it's hungry too, so that we don't have that whole 'my body thinks it's starving, so it's 'saving calories for famine' thing either. I've also taken to dragging the DDR stuff with me everywhere we stay. I haven't used it yet, but just keeping it nearby is a step in the right direction.

It can't hurt anything to help the process along, right? *grin*

Update: I began writing this over at Keebler's mom's place yesterday, after weighing myself last week. So far, I've been eating meals the same as usual, but supplementing with an 8oz glass of juice when I'm feeling snacky-hungry. This has inadvertently led to my not being desperately hungry when meal time finally arrives, so I don't eat as much at meals as I used to. I'm also not grumpy between meals anymore because I'm not having dangerous dips in my blood sugar. I'm probably getting about the same amount of calories throughout the day, but more vitamins, and spread out more, resulting in less fluctuation in my glucose levels.

I weighed myself again today, back here at home, and the scale now shows my weight at 208lbs!

Will I be under 200lbs for the first time in over 5 years by next week? Stay tuned, same fat time, same fat channel!

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