Shortly after Christmas, the doctor weighed me in at 202 pounds.
It was a bit of a shocker as I was weighing in at 175 lbs. the summer earlier.
Not only had I gained weight on the outside, I was, so to speak, getting fat on the inside, as well.
Apparently, I had high triglycerides...which, not to be confused with troglodytes, are fat molecules bubbling around in your blood, rather than ape-like lizard men with spears.
So this morning I weighed myself (because for some reason that defies my logic we are lighter in the morning than when we go to sleep) at 179.6 lbs. Yay, me!
It's still not where I'd like to be, but it was nice to see a seven up in the tens digit after all these months. And, of course, the real trick is keeping it off.
But I haven't even started exercising, yet! That's a drop of about 22 pounds by doing nothing more than reducing carbohydrate in-take -- and replacing most of my snacks with either carrots, pea pods, or mushrooms. I went from eating foot long Italian subs to six-inch turkey on wheat on the nights where I'm not eating one lean pocket and brussel sprouts. Brussel sprouts are pretty nasty. I'm not sure who figured out that you could actually eat them, but I'm assuming it must have been during a period of famine. I also started swapping out my morning fruit juice with diet or lite varieties. Fruit juice, it turns out, is one of the worst things for you if you have weight problems. It's like drinking a healthier candy bar. Who knew? Breakfast is still a killer though. I'm finding it pretty much impossible to find a low-carb cereal -- I guess cereal is, practically by definition, all-carb. And then when you see the amount of carbs you pour on top of that with milk, you're pretty much ready to put the toast and jam aside.
It's not that I'm on a no carb diet, just a low carb diet. At least, that's what my nutritionist said. (Yeah, I was actually sent to a nutritionist. That's how fat I got.) For my height and weight, I'm supposed to eat no more than 75 g of carbohydrates per meal...which I was apparently already starting to do before I talked to the nutritionist, since I had lost ten pounds before seeing her.
Well, I guess I'll go sit around the house a bit more...
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