The Peanut Gallery

• It’s water weight
• Don’t take it off too fast
• Are you calorie counting?
• I know you’ll go back to what you did before
• Why trying to lose weight when you are 50?
• I could never do that!
• You’ll gain it back plus more weight 

Questioning the scales

I stepped on the scale tonight and am told I'm down 11 pounds. I'm dumbfounded. Is the scale broken?

No miracle coffee, no pills, no potions. I am simply eating food and making better choices. I'm not starving myself. I'm consuming veggies, lean meat and grains are minimal.

 I am not hoping for perfection but for the first time in my life I am eating to live and not live to eat!

The Weight Is Falling Off Me

i started my plan on Saturday afternoon and here we are at Wednesday. I stepped on the scale and I am down 8 pounds! I’m ecstatic, confused and shocked! Weight has never come off like this for me. I’ve made a list of changes I’ve done. 

1. Eat breakfast.
2. Eat snack.
3. Eat lunch. 
4. Eat snack. 
5. Eat dinner. 
6. Eat snack. 
7. Meal plan for all week and keep in fridge.
8. Use portion control with sectioned containers.
9. Eat lean meat such as ground turkey and chicken breasts. 
10. Minimal grains. 
11. No sauces or condiments except for Bragg’s Amonos.
12. Drink water. No sodas. 
13. Use eggs whites. 
14. Half of meal must be veggies. 
15. Eat fruit in smaller portions. One half of apple at a time. 
16. Eliminate Tim Hortons Breakfast and make/bring meal. 
17. One cup of coffee per day only. 
18. Delete Skip The Dishes App. Make all meals at home and allow for one cheat meal per week. 
19. Eliminate or reduce sodium by cooking with Epicure. 
20. Grocery shop weekly with list. 

I’m curious to see what the scale will show after the first week. Stay tuned.

How did that happen?

Sometimes life has a way of creeping up on you and you suddenly give your head a shake. As Homer Simpson would say I had my  "D'oh!" moment.

This past Saturday afternoon and I was binge festing on The Walking Dead in preparation for the season premiere. Popcorn in hand was a bowl of theater size in my lap and pajamas I realized that this bowl of popcorn was all I had eaten all day.  Hmmm...not good.

No wonder I felt like crap with a capital "C". I had a headache. My joints signalled the weather change. I felt fatigued and was content to park my butt on the couch. Now 50,  I was feeling much older and in recent month been prescribed blood pressure medication as well as acid reflux medication by my doctor.

Some of my habits had now caused me to take medication to live a "normal" life and I knew that if I continued at this pace I'd also be on cholesterol as well as other medication. Everyday, I saw people coming into the hospital with mobility issues, breathing issues and other health conditions because of the same things I was doing.

This scared the shit out of me and shook me to the core. It was that afternoon I stepped onto the scale after five years and as the digital reading appeared, I cried. It wasn't -- How did this happen but, How did I* allow this to happen!?

Sharing this is not one of my proudest of moments but I do believe in transparency and a public declaration of my goals in order. You see, I then need to be accountable to whoever the readers of this blog will be but most importantly myself!