Okay, so I know you all wanted a picture of my feet on the scale, but alas my camera batteries were dead this morning when I went to take the picture. I WILL buy batteries today and take a pic tomorrow morning to show how incredible just journaling my food intake has been (without being super strict with what I eat--yes I think about what I eat, but as you have seen, I have not really been "dieting").
So dadada, this morning the scale said 291lbs. That is 8 pounds lost from last Monday's weigh in and 14 pounds down from my initial weigh in on March 14th.
So a Total of 14 pounds in 14 days!
So technically I am right on track for my 80 lbs in 80 days.
However, I do know that most of this weight loss is the first stage, which is loss of my stored glycogen. I have written an article (warnign I did not proffread well before submitting it so there are a LOT of typos) on this which you can rad by clicking this title:
Glycogen: The Reason to Rejoice in Losing "Water Weight"
So, as I am probably just about out of stored glycogen (well I know I store new every day, but I am talking the massive amounts I have been hanging on to for a while), now I can start burning stored fat. As fat is more than twice as energetic as glycogen, AND is not stored with massive amounts of water, it is actually going to take more actual effort on my part to keep the numbers going down.
I am just so happy that I am off to a great start. That Journaling my food intake honestly has actually STOPPED me from eating some things when I really was not hungry. These two weeks where I have been focusing more on why I eat and just observing what I eat have been very helpful to me in determining what my negative food habits and negative food relationships are. Because I am now clear that I eat to bury anger, I eat more than I want to even when I am not hungry because I hate to "waste" food, and I have this "because it was there" eating habit going on, now I know three of the primary mental/emotional/spiritual places that I can start from.
I truly believe that aside from those few extra pounds that people tend to gain and lose and gain and lose, if you are overweight, the root of your problem is NOT that you are eating too much--THAT IS A SYMPTOM of a much larger issue in your life. Just focusing on eating less or dieting is not going to bring the lasting change you are seeking. There are underlying feelings, traumas, and buried ingrained ideas and habits that you are carrying that may not be in your best interest. The key to becoming healthy is to recognize that it is ALL parts of you that need to work together.
So I am solidly in a good feeling place, having lost 4.6% of my overall body weight in two weeks. I have a clear set of three non-physical areas that I can consciously work on to support my goal of achieving a healthy body, mind, and spirit. And I have a handful of tools that I can use to work on those areas including:
Prayer and meditation; EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique); Breathing exercises; and Letting Go (I have added a few links on the side to some books and stuff that I find helpful to me in these). UPDATE: I am adding a page to my website so that I don't have a ton of stuff in the margin of this blog. So check out this page Useful Resources to explore futher. (note: I'll take the links down later when I have more time as I have to leave now and have not finished adding links ot the website page.)
I also have spent time researching what vitamins and herbal supplements can help support my body and help control my blood sugar while I go through this transformation process. Supporting Mind, Body, Spirit, and emotions is vital to effecting true change. I am so glad that I have committed to this journey. And I am glad that you have chosen to walk beside me as I go forward! Welcome to my world.
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