Throwing The Diet Out The Window

December 5, 2016

 It has been exactly one month since I have written in my blog and my food diary.  I have been doing a personal experiment to see if I really learned from this life changing eating experience.  I called this experiment throwing the diet out the window.  What did I want to accomplish?  My goal was to maintain my weight without all that measuring and weighing.  I wanted to know if I did memorize the good and bad foods.  I wanted to know if I really could measure 1/3 or 1/4 cup of rice, etc... Below are some items I had taken pictures of that I ate on my maintenance.  Baked chicken, veggies, brown rice shrimp veggies and egg and smoke sausage breakfast was among the few things I ate.  I did keep up my exercise regimen.  I just didn't weigh myself during this time.  What did I learn?  Well on 11/28/2016 I got on the scale for the first time in a month.  When I began this experiment I weighed 197 lbs.  My current scale reading I weighed 197 lbs.  That is AWESOME!!!!!! I didn't gain any weight.  I actually did maintain.  I learned that I did learn how to eat right.  So here I am today, I am beginning my food diary again only to loose some more weight.  I do know that it is realistic for me to be able to maintain my weight after all this is done.  My scout goal is to be 191 to be able to attend the National Jamboree.  My personal goal is 185.  I have only 12 more pounds to go.  Then I will make an appointment for the nurse at the hospital to do a personal BMI based on my body structure.  At that moment I will maybe make myself a new goal.  185 is where I want to be at this moment.  On another note, I have went through all of my wardrobe.  I have officially gotten rid of all my 4x, 3x and 2x shirts.  Also gone are my 18 and 16 sized jeans.  I have had a few friends give me some hand me downs and I have hit some really cool sales to make me a new wardrobe.  I didn't have many things to wear after I took out all of those clothes I shrunk out of.  But that is a good thing, because I am never going that big ever again.  A crucial part of everyone's dieting is will power.  The second part is portion control with good choices and third is physical activity.

It's how southern women diet!

Happy Eating

Angell