Thursday 4 September 2014

Three months on

In the last three months, I have:

  • walked an average of just over 100K each month (4-5K most mornings)
  • turned my eating plan upside down (have gone right off processed meat, eat virtually no red meat, poultry weekly, fish twice weekly, veggie the rest)
  • removed caffeine completely - now on all herbal, fruit and redbush teas
  • removed most dairy - now using soya milk and yogurt, and goat or feta cheese
  • removed most gluten - eating very little bread, and using GF muesli, GF pasta
  • juice for breakfast from Obsidian recipes most mornings - muesli and fruit if I'm in a real hurry
And these are the results. (Click on the photo for a closer look.)


(Same t-shirt but baggier! Jeans instead of the sloppy joe trousers, because they look better.)

I've lost 21 pounds. Still only about an inch from the waist, but three from the hips, and probably about two or three from the bust (that measurement wasn't taken in June, but I can guess from the clothes). I'm now fitting comfortably into size 14 rather than a tight 16 (although different stores have different ideas, of course) and have reclaimed a lot of my wardrobe.

I'm not quite done. My ideal weight, from a BMI point of view, at 5'5", is 10 stone 9. So that's where I aim to reach and settle.

My fabulous husband has been constantly supportive, eating the curious recipes I've dished up for him (actually, last night's quorn bolognese went down rather well), encouraging me with the exercise, helping me keep alcohol to a bare minimum. As a result, his own clothes are now fitting rather easier than they were too.

This is not (and really never has been) a 'diet'. It has been a genuine change to what I view as 'normal'. That's why the size 16s are not being kept 'just in case'.

I can never thank the good folks of Obsidian enough for setting me on a road that is - after 51 years - right for me.