Still haven't gotten batteries for my wii, but made use of a friend's wii and weighed myself today. Next month I will start back to the gym, since my activity restrictions will be lifted and I can start weighing myself on the scale there.
While weight loss has not been my primary reason for drastic diet change, I did join a gym about this time last year to try and get healthier. I needed to loose a great deal of weight, and my doctor had recommended I do so. Upon joining the gym, with no change in my diet I lost about 7 lbs in 6 months. Then put a few more right back on when school let out and I couldn't make it to the gym for my water aerobics class regularly. Then I had my medication change and had to make some dietary changes and lost 11 lbs, putting my total weight loss at 14 lbs. Lost the 5 lb fibroid for a grand total of 19 lbs in a year.
Since my 2 week check up after my surgery, (the check up was almost a month ago, the surgery was almost 6 weeks ago), I have lost another 7 1/3 lbs. During this time I have also given up dairy. I haven't been doing much in the exercise department due to my activity restrictions, which I am on for a couple more weeks.
I haven't been eating this super restricted diet either. I have been eating yummy foods. I have been having oils on my foods. I have been having carob brownies (not chocolate because I can't taste the stuff due to migraine meds), I have been eating until I am stuffed. As you can see from the things I have posted in the last week, bread and pasta have featured heavily in my diet, but so has peanut butter. I have made a point of having a higher ratio of veggies in my meals, but not really sacrificing the things I love.
I am not sure how much vegetarianism has been a factor in this weight loss or how much of it has been no sodas, and avoiding things I am allergic to, or just not eating out as much. I know that what we eat in restaurants are rarely as healthy as we would fix at home cooking from scratch. And convenience foods often have things in them that we wouldn't think to put in foods we were making at home. Or it all could just be, being conscious of what I am putting in my mouth.
I understand that a variety of eating plans have worked towards making people healthier. Often it seems to be about figuring out your personal food issues and how to deal with them best. I do know that I had developed a habit of sweets since marrying my husband, who really likes his sweets. And since changing my eating habits, I have lost interest in having sweets on a regular basis.
I think for me, it seems that just making new habits has helped me break some of the bad habits that were causing me issues. Now that I have had a couple months to really focus on changing my eating habits, to a point that most of the time it really seems easy for me, maybe I can start to focus on changing my activity habits just as soon as my doctor tells me it is okay. I think I want to take up Yoga as well as have my pool time. I also think I might like to take up running again. Once upon a time I was a runner. I didn't like the 5k run around city streets sort of runs. I was on the orienteering team in high school. But I have been seeing some cool obstacle course sort of runs that look like they would be fun to start training for.
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