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No weight loss this week, but I have lost 2.8lbs for the month of April so far, with 1 week to go. I still am not sure what my set point will be, so this is all just a learning experience for me. I had a check-up with my GP last week and she thought that I should increase my caloric intake to 1800-1900. I have decided not to do that for the moment and stick with 1700-1800. I am going to stay the course for 1 more month. If I stay at 148 then so be it and then I will consider myself as having reached my set point and then start the even harder journey of maintenance.
I never thought that I would be at this point, that it was even possible to take off this amount of weight - almost 90lbs. All I can say for those who like me who have been overweight most of their adult life is that it can be done. You have to start believing in yourself - a gradual process to be sure. You have to have patience, as you didn't put it on in 6 months and you're not going to take it off in 6 months. It has been 2 years this April since I started to visualize, to aspire, to hope that this time I could do it.
Once I started to take off a significant amount of weight, my focus increased and my confidence grew. I didn't really share my weight loss with anyone, sure people noticed but it was something that I was doing for myself, not for anyone else, so it became a private journey for me as really no one could help me. I had to help myself, to discover what was going to work for me, what I was willing to sacrifice to get the weight off. This journey of self-discovery is different for everyone. I hope my ramblings here inspire others that anything is possible if you want it bad enough. I never knew that before.
Happy Monday everyone and have a good week!
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67.1 kg
Lost so far: 40.5 kg.
Still to go: 0.9 kg.
Diet followed: Reasonably Well.
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1840 kcal
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Fat: 63.56g | Prot: 99.95g | Carbs: 233.96g.
Breakfast: Banana, Manba Manba Spicy Peanut Butter Crunchy, Loblaws Flax Bread, Beatrice 0% Skim Milk. Lunch: Hard-Boiled Egg, President's Choice Blue Menu Caesar Dressing, Light Mayonnaise, Our Finest Parmigiano Reggiano, Lettuce, Cucumber (with Peel), Grape Tomatoes, Green Peppers, Loblaws Flax Bread, Beatrice 0% Skim Milk, Honeycrisp Apples. Dinner: No Name Frozen Mixed Vegetables, Yam, Beatrice 0% Skim Milk, Vegetable Soup (Home Recipe), Pork Loin (Tenderloin, Cooked, Roasted), Kelsey's Beet & Goat Cheese Salad. Snacks/Other: Irresistibles Multigrain Melba Toast, Philadelphia Regular Cream Cheese, Orange Juice (Unsweetened, Undiluted, Frozen Concentrate). more...
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steady weight
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