Monday, May 9, 2005
I just want my readers to know...
that I am still alive and I still haven't gained any weight back. I've had four solid weeks of special projects/disaster at work, and I'm still running on about 5 hours of sleep a night. Once life calms itself, I will be back to posting daily in all of my blogs.
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Monday, May 2, 2005
Change of Plans
I had intended to start another 10-day stint on the "Lemonade Diet" on Friday, but circumstances intervened. You see, last Wednesday was Administrative Professionals Day, and my bosses traditionally take us out for lunch. But last Wednesday was also right smack in the middle of Pesach, so my Jewish...
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Thursday, March 31, 2005
Resuming the Low-Carb Way of Eating
I'm finishing up the last of the vegetable soups today, and returning to my low carb lifestyle. I'll do that for four weeks, and then I'll do a ten-day Lemonade stint again. I'm going to be making my menus and shopping lists for those four weeks so that I can make my life easier by buying only what...
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Friday, March 25, 2005
Still Maintaining...
I don't weigh in officially until Tuesday evening; unofficially, I weigh in on Sunday mornings. My home scale is not utterly reliable, so I weigh in officially once a month when I visit my chiropractor. But I weigh in once a week on my home scale so I can keep track. By looking at the difference...
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Monday, March 21, 2005
Maintaining the Progress
I have not yet gained back any of the weight that I lost on my 25-day cleanse/fast/diet. That is encouraging. I've had only two meat meals since breaking the fast; the rest has been soups and stews: vegetable soup, ratatouille, leek soup, and mimosa soup. I did have some feta cheese with the...
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Monday, March 14, 2005
Phasing Back Into Food
Well, I made my decision this morning. I'm going to phase out of the cleanse/fast starting this afternoon. I'm kind of disappointed, but it's becoming stressful to stay on the fast, and that will negate much of the good that I have achieved. There's no point in continuing if I'm going to be...
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Saturday, March 12, 2005
Working Hard Today
I ought to burn a lot of fat today. We've been outside raking leaves and bagging them all morning. It's hard work! We have a lot of leaves, and we've already filled six construction bags with leaves, even though we've only done about a third of the back yard. I'm surprised that I am doing so well....
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Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Gratifiying Results
Today, I saw a couple of people whom I have not seen for quite some time. Both were quite amazed by my appearance, and both demanded to know what I was doing to achieve such dramatic and wonderful results. As I launched into my description, both of them said, "Oh, yeah! My sister/aunt did that a lot...
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Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Focus on What You Have
So often, while following a diet, I have noticed that I tend to focus narrowly on what I do not have or cannot have, as opposed to what I do and can have. For example, I'm doing this lemonade diet, which means no solid food for the duration, and a very gradual return to solid food after (to keep...
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Monday, March 7, 2005
Lifestyle Changes
Of course, with every diet success, there have to be changes in lifestyle to help maintain the ground gained during the diet. Several people have asked what I am planning --- how I'm going to keep the weight off and keep healthy, happy, and energetic. Step one will be a permanent change in eating...
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