Jane

I don’t have much to report this week, other than that I am steadily losing weight and feeling better and better about my body, my life, my appearance, and my health.  The low point of this week was taking a big gulp of what I thought was going to be a vanilla shake with a hint of Starbucks coffee flavor and discovering instead that it was cold chicken soup, flavored with coffee!  Needless to say, I wasn’t wild about the cold lumps!

 The high point of the week was this weekend.  The program tells us to come up with non-food rewards for progress made, so I decided to do something I’ve always wanted to do but never had the nerve to try:  fake nails!  I didn’t realize they would take so long, but after 2 hours in the chair, I walked out of the salon feeling totally glamorous and beautiful and, oh, so feminine.  I highly recommend them.  My sister, Katie, has always told me they were wonderful, and now I get it.  I’m typing with them right now and feeling like I’m back to being about 8 years old, loving my glue-on nails–but these don’t fall off!  I have to watch out because lately I’m spending a lot of time just thinking up new ways to point a gorgeous red-tipped finger at something.  Here’s a picture:

Other than that, there’s not much to report.  The session last week was about the importance of serving food on small plates, so that we don’t over-feed ourselves–and about drawing an imaginary line across our plate, dividing our plate into top and bottom.  The top half should always be filled with vegetables, the bottom fourth with protein and the other fourth with starch, with a tiny bit of fat.  We are supposed to keep that plate model in our heads, when we go back to eating, especially when eating out!  It simplifies the whole deal of counting calories or figuring out portions. The other thing that happened this week is we got started on regular exercise.  My goal is 150-200 minutes of aerobic exercise a week–and I have to keep a daily  log.  I’m proud to say I made it to the YWCA one morning, and I walked 4 times this week, plus one long walk and a hike on the weekend.  We’re also supposed to do simple things to get ourselves moving all the time, such as parking farther away from work, taking the stairs, or, in my case, running in place in the bathroom, just for the extra oomph!  Onward and upward!

Related posts:

1. Jane’s World: Week Two on Liquids
2. Jane’s World: Week One on Only Liquids!
3. Jane’s World: Hospital Weight Program: Week One
4. Final Week on Only Liquids
5. Jane’s World: “Week Zero” on the Weight Program

Tags: fake nails, Losing Weight, Optifast, weight management

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