Well, tomorrow would have been week 13 on my 25 week challenge. I should be at 234 lbs if I had kept at it, one lb shy of reaching my private goal. As you can see, that didn't quite work out.
But one of the "Things I need to work on" goals was that I don't give up when things go wrong. And wrong did they go!
I had a traumatic death in my family, sickness and a whole bunch of stress on top of that. Everything that could go wrong did. But I'm realizing that eating badly is making any bad situations that come up worse. Eating bad is not a stress relief anymore. It's causing so much stress for me because I feel bad all the time. Weight has either increased or redistributed in odd places that is making it hard for me to move and even breathe.
I've been doing a lot of research and discovered a book called Wheat Belly. I've heard about this from friends in passing before but blew it off. I mistakenly believed that as long as you keep carbs under a certain amount everyday that it doesn't matter where those carbs come from. Boy was I wrong! Wheat is bad for you!! I won't go into detail, but I mentioned it because I'm cutting out wheat and gluten from my diet. I've been on it for four days now and I have lost 5 lbs!
What's amazing is that I'm not dreaming about food, I'm not obsessively counting calories, and I don't have those terrible hunger pains! Of course, I don't know what the future will bring with this new way of eating, but I have to say I'm excited. Also, I will probably need to start exercising and eventually counting calories/carbs to keep losing if I reach a plateau, but I just feel in my heart that what the book is talking about makes perfect sense!
SO, I'm restarting my 25 week challenge starting with tomorrow ending in week 25. I'm not going to blog tomorrow, so consider this my one-day-early blog for that week. This brings my 60lb weight loss goal date to August 9th. I should reach my private goal by May 17 (hopefully). This time, I'm not going to freak out if I'm slower than my goals. As long as I'm moving forward. But having a goal gives me something to look forward to. It's so easy to lose track of time and what I've really done, or haven't done *sigh*.
I want to make the rest of this year great!
Measurements: (taken on 2/18/13) Waist 49.5", Upper Belly 51.5", Hips 52.5", Bust 49", Neck 16", Upper arm 15.5", Forearm 11 3/4", Wrist 7 3/8", Thigh 22.5", Calf 17.5"
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