Tomorrow I Weigh In

Okay, so we all know the food is great and all, but I am still hungry. 1200 calories is not much food when you are used to eating a bunch more. But, I am sticking to it and hoping for success at the scale. I am sure I have dropped some weight, but wonder if it will be enough to keep me focused, since this is about weight loss.

I often wonder why I feel the need to be thin. Certainly, I want to feel better and look better, but is that all there is to weight loss? People say fat people use their fat to hide from life. Nope, not me. I did not plan to be fat, it is just something that happens over time. My body does not react the same as others. For example, not all sedentary people are fat and they eat just as much junk food as I do, but they stay thin. So, regardless of what others say or think, my body reacts differently.

On a weeks vacation, I walked daily and melted in the Florida heat at Disney World. I ate the same as everyone else, maybe even less beacuse I had a cold, and I put on ten pounds in a week. Yeah, I know it was fluid gain, but gain is gain. And this has happened more than once in my life, so it is something I have to deal with that others don’t.

I am drinking plenty of water and trying to get some walking in daily to boost my metabolism. At the age of 54 and having had a total hystorectomy two and a half years ago, my metabolism is shot. So, I plug along and hope that my body will accept the new way of eating and drop the weight.