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The following is probably just blather about progress, The Beck Diet Solution and upcoming goals and surgery.
Last week's entry is here
Currently down 15.1 pounds and ~2" on the waistline (approximate; I only started measuring waistline last week, but guessing based on belt loosening).
Beck's book is broken up into a 4 chapter introduction, to give you core ideas, then a six week program where you go cover one topic per day, and then a "Now what" denouement where it talks about keeping on toward your goal and how to deal with the maintenance phase.
For my own purposes, since it can be a bit hard to remember everything, I've entered each day of the six week program onto a google calendar so I can review the concepts at a glance without having to flip through the book. Also it helps me remember where I was, since I tend to read it in chunks and not actually read it daily.
This means I've basically gone through the 6 week course, even though I'm only 4 weeks in. There's some really good stuff in there, some techniques to help you cope with the "I don't wannas" and "I cant doits" that people at my weight generally have.
In a way, some of it is straight up "you really should have more discipline" but unlike most people saying this, it actually gives sound psychological advice on doing so.
Highlights:
It all sounds very simple, and in a lot of ways it is. That doesn't mean it isn't work, of course. One thing I've done is that I've mentally edited the words 'diet' out of the passages I've read into 'self-care'. I'm not doing this for the imagery. Honestly I'm doing it for my children. I want to be able to give C the tools to handle this kind of thing better than I have, and to give her those tools I need to have them myself.
Not entirely related to that, I find my walks hardest in the first 2 miles, for example, and I have to work hardest to keep positive. After about 2 to 2.5 miles, the muscles that are bugging me are good and warm and kind of let up, and my pace quickens and my mind can wander a little bit more freely.
Last bit: 3 years ago, I had moderate success with stomach shrinking, and I lost about 15 pounds in a 4 month period. That's right about when I bought the Aria scale, so I have good weight measurements back that far. The lowest I had gotten was 272, which is about 20 pounds away from where I am now. My weight loss pace is pretty good, as long as I keep the exercise up, it should be completely reasonable to hope to be there by the time I have surgery in 2 months.
I expect I'll continue losing weight after surgery since it'll be hard to eat much for 2 weeks. On the plus side, if my stomach is already good and shrunk it might not be terrible. I'll eat a lot of smoothies.
Last week's entry is here
Currently down 15.1 pounds and ~2" on the waistline (approximate; I only started measuring waistline last week, but guessing based on belt loosening).
Beck's book is broken up into a 4 chapter introduction, to give you core ideas, then a six week program where you go cover one topic per day, and then a "Now what" denouement where it talks about keeping on toward your goal and how to deal with the maintenance phase.
For my own purposes, since it can be a bit hard to remember everything, I've entered each day of the six week program onto a google calendar so I can review the concepts at a glance without having to flip through the book. Also it helps me remember where I was, since I tend to read it in chunks and not actually read it daily.
This means I've basically gone through the 6 week course, even though I'm only 4 weeks in. There's some really good stuff in there, some techniques to help you cope with the "I don't wannas" and "I cant doits" that people at my weight generally have.
In a way, some of it is straight up "you really should have more discipline" but unlike most people saying this, it actually gives sound psychological advice on doing so.
Highlights:
- Give yourself credit when you succeed.
- If you fail
- Don't throw away what you've done.
- Forgive yourself
- Make an effort to move back to success
- Tell yourself you have no choice. If the choice is already made for you, you don't have to choose, you just enact teh choice.
- Keep your motivations close at hand; review them daily.
- Give yourself credit when you succeed.
It all sounds very simple, and in a lot of ways it is. That doesn't mean it isn't work, of course. One thing I've done is that I've mentally edited the words 'diet' out of the passages I've read into 'self-care'. I'm not doing this for the imagery. Honestly I'm doing it for my children. I want to be able to give C the tools to handle this kind of thing better than I have, and to give her those tools I need to have them myself.
Not entirely related to that, I find my walks hardest in the first 2 miles, for example, and I have to work hardest to keep positive. After about 2 to 2.5 miles, the muscles that are bugging me are good and warm and kind of let up, and my pace quickens and my mind can wander a little bit more freely.
Last bit: 3 years ago, I had moderate success with stomach shrinking, and I lost about 15 pounds in a 4 month period. That's right about when I bought the Aria scale, so I have good weight measurements back that far. The lowest I had gotten was 272, which is about 20 pounds away from where I am now. My weight loss pace is pretty good, as long as I keep the exercise up, it should be completely reasonable to hope to be there by the time I have surgery in 2 months.
I expect I'll continue losing weight after surgery since it'll be hard to eat much for 2 weeks. On the plus side, if my stomach is already good and shrunk it might not be terrible. I'll eat a lot of smoothies.
