Day 15.
It's been two weeks since I began this journey. I re-calculated my BMI today and I've lost 3 BMI points since I started!! It's nowhere near where it needs to be and will be, but this is one more indication that the Medifast plan is working for me.
A word about cheating: so, I'm a cheater. I've cheated here and there over the last couple of weeks and I can tell immediately because my weight loss stalls. I stalled between 11 and 15 pounds for a whole week.
This is my weight loss pattern. I lose 10 lbs and then I sabotage myself. It's always a losing bet and one that I've been betting on for the past 20 years (if I'm being honest). For every 10 pounds I lost, I gained 15. To be honest, I gained 100 lbs over twenty years (and I was VERY fit when I started to gain weight). That's mind boggling. I've hated getting my picture taken since around 1996, when I went from a curvy size 12 to a size 14 and then on to 16-ville by 1998. That was probably a 30 pound gain. Then, I gained another 15 pounds in 1999 and lost 17, which prompted me to re-gain the weight plus another 15 lbs. And that's where I stayed for about 5 years. And then stress hit again and I gained my last 25 lbs. And that, my friends, is how you gain 100 lbs (more or less).
I was killing myself. And honestly, even though I haven't liked myself in a long time, I love myself enough to put a stop to this now.
The betting window is officially closed.
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