Feb 17 2018
Weight loss intro
I need to lose weight. I am, by medical definition, morbidly obese. By my definition, I am fat.
Being fat is hard. It causes a shit ton of health problems. It impacts my asthma, causes high blood pressure, and makes my joints ache sometimes. Also, I am limited on wardrobe selection to only the big girls’ stores and departments. That is an issue for me.
I‘ve been going to the gym for a year and half and the scale really didn’t move much. I put on my big girl panties and went to the nutritionist and asked about weight loss. This happened after an especially confusing week when my doctor told me that in order to lower my blood pressure, I needed to reduce my sodium and gave me a bunch of booklets on meal planning and shopping. These booklets were published by a pharmaceutical company. Those booklets went into the recycle bin.
Jakki, the awesome superwoman of nutrition (as she is known in my house), actually looked at what I was eating and called bullshit on the doctor. (Yes, she cusses. Yet another reason why I love her.) She said the sodium was not my problem, it was my carbs. I was carb loading like I had a race every day.
Therefore, she reduced the number of carbs I should intake every day. And not just reduced, oh no, she sliced, diced, and whack-a-moled them.
So from eating eleventy hundred gazillion carbs a day (only a slight exaggeration) I was down to 100. A day.
Let’s get this in perspective- an average slice of bread has about 25 carbs in it. An apple has about 20.
My goal is stay under 100 carbs a day.
Oh shit.
This took some getting used to, lemme tell ya.
Jakki insisted, demanded, and commanded that I get on (ok, reactivate the inactive account I had not used in 2 years) on My Fitness Pal.
I love the app. It makes keeping track of shit easy.
I added Jakki as a friend on MFP.
She can read my food diary and see what I eat.
I am still not sure if this is a good thing.
I started this whole low carb thing on January 12, 2018. It has been 5 weeks.
I have lost weight. Not just that, though. I lost weight every single week I weighed myself.
Every. Single. Week.
That is huge for me. It has never happened before on any sort of thing I’ve ever done.
Mind blowing?
Nope.
Mind changing!