I broke my rule for not posting over on the bubble blog about my fasting/weight loss but somethings are just double entry worthy!!
As far as weight loss and fasting go, the weekend was a huge success. I had a fantastic baby spinach and vegetable salad yesterday along with some marinated garlic cloves and that was all the "food" I ate besides the optifast shakes, sugar free jello and chicken broth. I consider that a HUGE success considering that we were at the ball park for fourteen hours and oh the smell of grilled burgers and bbq was mouth watering! Not to mention everyone eating around me.
This afternoon I'm weighing myself. I need to start posting my weight here, or rather weight loss, I'm not sure if I'm ready to share with the entire internet my true current weight :) I'm afraid the blogsphere is just not ready for all of that.
Larry and I are having discussions about canceling our surgeries and just staying on the fast but we're still mulling it over at this point. It just seems SO do-able right now. Historically, I tend to self implode after a few weeks on any kind of diet. I'm taking that into consideration while I'm trying to figure out what to do.
I can't say that I'm craving anything anymore and for that, I am grateful. I could definitely go for another spinach salad though. It's funny to me how when you're not eating much of anything, even a good radish is satisfying.
I'll post tonight on the weight loss.
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Hey Pam,
I just wanted to let you know that I'm reading all your posts, on your main blog and here. I just haven't felt like writing much lately, hence the lack of comments. But, I just wanted to chime in about the Optifast thing. I think any diet seems do-able "forever" when you first start. I remember when I first started Atkins, lost 10 lbs the first two weeks, and continued to lose for about 5 months. Then Halloween, and just one taste of chocolate did me in. I can easily eat "healthy" for a few weeks. I'm all over it...lean meats, veggies, fruits, nuts, whole grains...yeah baby, this is easy. But then I slide back into my old ways, because I'm hungry dammit, and I want some freaking chips.
Remember when Oprah did Optifast? She did it for 5 months or something, and she lost like 68 pounds, came out on the stage in her size 10 jeans and pulling a wagon with 68 lbs of fat in it? She said in an interview later that that ONE day was the only day those jeans ever fit her, and as soon as she stopped Optifast she gained 10 lbs immediately. The rest of the weight came back eventually also.
Anyway, my point is, just because it seems easy now and you're doing great (which you totally are!), I wouldn't cancel the surgery just yet. Because this is what you've been wanting for a long time, yes? Just think about the realities of being on a permanent liquid (mostly) diet for a while, is all I'm saying.
Love ya sweetie.
Shelley,
Your timing couldn't have been better! Last night while I was sitting outside on my front steps, I realized that although I "may" be able to do this ("MAY") I still need that external control. Hence, the final decision was made: I'M DOING IT! And you are SOOOOO very right my friend, we think we are SO in control and then one little bad day or slip or emotional upset and I am all over that loaf of bread!!
You can't imagine how much your support means to me :)
I know !! i so think I can...and when you wrote i was some fricken chips...So me!! i odn't like chocolate weakness is chips and pop!!!
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