We’re keeping to the diet. Jane’s on a heckuva plateau that’s fighting her hard, and she got an awful upset stomach from the mold involved in the fishtank cleanup downstairs—nothing would work to settle it, and she finally got it quiet with some sweet potato chips we had on hand, so it’s not her fault: she didn’t eat those for recreation. She was really miserable, and she helped me out after I was worm-stung and exhausted. So I’m down a pound and she’s up on, after eating the same thing…except the potato chips a day ago.
But we’re sticking fast to the diet, and it’s continuing to work. I’ve got a couple of recipes that keep us from diet boredom: can of chili split between us, over cheeseburgers, no bun; and chicken strips with bamboo shoots, green beans in coconut milk with bamboo shoots and red curry powder. The rest is typical.
I fit into size 12 stretch jeans! Not only that, I may make it to non-stretch…these are a little loose. I’m going to see if I can find my old khaki cargo pants I devoutly saved 20 years ago, telling myself I’d fit into them again.
I’ve some experience with tricky tummys. Have you tried peppermint tea? I’d expect, being in the PNW, you can find Stash Tea’s Peppermint Tea at a local market. I keep some of that around (for when I don’t quite need my anticholinergics). I also can recommend Bigelow’s Plantation Mint Tea (which is spearmint), very soothing with a little sweetening. (It’s IBS in my case.)
Congrats on the weight loss! I’ve been losing about 1&1/3 pound per week for the past two weeks. I started the Hacker’s Diet routine about a month ago; a slow start, and not working hard at cutting back. My long term goal is 90 kg (198 lbs), which I haven’t weighed for about 25 years; I’m currently at 110 kg, so that should take about a year at the current rate. My old GP wanted to see me at 80 kg; I haven’t weighted that since I graduated uni.
And Happy Lady Ada Day! I won’t Babbage on about it, though.
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Congratulations on the continued weight loss! Sorry to hear about Jane. My solution is plain toast.
Apropos of nothing, I just came across a very nice obscure word, especially sweet because it looks like a portmanteau of common words: breviloquence, brief and eloquent; “A brief and pertinent mode of speaking.” (Webster’s 1913; actual derivation, L. breviloquentia.)
I suspect you’ve been watching The Blacklist. 😉
Congrats on the weight loss. Every time I try to ration calories I get 1) totally tired and 2) succumb to whatever bug is floating around.
With luck once the reaction to the mold stops Jane’s gain will evaporate. I know when I have an allergy bout I put on water weight.
My solution is gari, pickled ginger, but then I like the stuff.
Most forms of ginger are good for the tummy. I got through one bought of food poisoning with room-temperature Reed’s “Extra Ginger” Ginger Ale. I usually drink it refrigerated, but my stomach couldn’t take the cold.
I also love crystallized ginger and have to limit myself so as not to eat the whole bagful at one sitting.
Yippee on the weight loss! I’m down a little, finally. I’m not quite ready to buy new pants, but I’m now where a 36 waist is a bit too big sometimes. When I’m back to 34, I’ll be where I was in late high school and college through my 20’s. It was in my 30’s that my metabolism slowed and my eating went up. My tummy doesn’t quite show it for sure yet, but I can tell I’m thinner and that’s welcome news.
However, I would get worried if I were down to whatever I weighed in 1978. I was, er, um…12 then! LOL! (And on the short, skinny, shrimpy side of 12, at that.) Sorry, can’t help it, I was just a youngun.
Ya still are, by my calculation!
of course, two different people on the same diet, eating the exact same thing and portions, will still respond differently.
I hope Jane’s stomach can settle down. I am having my own small troubles, but nothing like those.
Way to go girls!! You’ll be joining me in those skinny jeans yet.
Well, now a nice person has sent me a pdf of Sam Jones music, and I can’t figure how to post it. How to get a pdf up here, readable? I may put it over on Closed Circle. I think I’ll ask Jane.
CJ, you’ll need to upload the .pdf file to your site or to Closed Circle and then you can post a plain old link to it, with the note that it’s a .pdf, and people will need Adobe Reader. These days, some browsers include their own PDF readers. When a visitor clicks the link, it will try to open it in the browser’s PDF reader plugin or Adobe Reader. When a visitor right-clicks the link, the file commands are “Download” or “Save As” and similar, without you having to do anything special on your end. So visitors who are used to viewing or saving those from the web can do as usual and open or save the file as they’d like. Your choice whether it fits best as a Closed Circle download or available from the Wave blog. Again, nothing special you need to do, just upload it and post a link, and the browser takes care of the messy details. Do note that it’s a PDF, so people aren’t surprised when they click. (Some will be distracted or not pay attention and will be surprised anyway, but haha, that’ll teach ’em.) 😀 Best wishes!
Goodness me…I’ll never weigh what I weighed in 1978 — that’s when I was born! 😉 But seriously, congratulations. The Battle of the Bulge has been kicking my keester lately. I’ll be happy to drop the 50+ I’ve got above 200. You’re an inspiration!
At last, someone younger than I am! 😀 (I was born in 1966, you’re 12 years younger.)
I wouldn’t mind weighing what I weighed in 1978. It would have been around 130 — but then I’ll bet at 5’4″ I’m shorter than you, CJ.
About 3 inches…
On the topic of weight ;), “Scientists on Wednesday recovered what could be the largest part of this meteor from Chebarkul Lake outside the city. They weighed it using a giant steelyard balance, which displayed 570 kilograms (1,256 pounds) before it broke.”
5’21/2″ since I lost the cartilage in my knees; I’m not dieting, but I am now at 180, down from 198. 1.59 meters, 89 kilo to 81 kilo, for those more used to metric.
In 1978, I was 127, as I had been since 1968. 57 kilo. Yes, I am obese, but mostly I don’t care about looks, just abilities. When I get the other knee replaced, and have two good legs to stand on, I’ll probably lose more weight just in living!
Just no Step Exercise programs, Tommie. High impact on the spacer in the knee will destroy it, requiring another procedure to replace it. Yuck!
With the left knee comprised of a standard femoral implant and an extended stem on the tibial implant, that took a long time to heal (almost 3 years), especially since it was a revision of an earlier replacement. The right knee was done 4 years ago this past Sunday, and hasn’t given me anywhere near the trouble the left one did.
I’m using the elliptical machines at the YMCA as well as my bicycle to help with the aerobic side. I laid off the elliptical for about 5 years, and it’s high time I got back on them, so I started last week.
I was at one point during that regimen down to 185 pounds. In March of 2003, when I moved back to Ohio, I was at 175, and suddenly ballooned up to 220 within a few months. Now, I’m at 205 and dropping, no special diet, just reduced portions.
@Tommie. Obese is an overused word. I’m maybe a half-inch taller than you and won’t say what I weigh, but I would be happy to be at your weight. I’m short and fat. If I were 50 pounds heavier, then I might use the word “obese.” People forget that you can be fat and fit. Prior to my knee problems, which started getting bad this Spring, I have been able to get up and move better than some of the thin people I know. I may move a bit slower, but I move. I have never weighed in the range for adults on the insurance charts. The Diabetes makes losing weight harder. Especially when you’re on a drug that has weight gain as a side effect! Working on the A1C, too! I want off the drug that I blame for half of the sudden weight gain! I take a dance class once a week and water fitness twice a week. Now that the weather has cooled off, I need to start walking, even a short distance counts!
Serious congrats on the weight loss. Alas, for me, I lost 18 lbs as of last year, then moved in with my mom, who likes to eat three actual meals a day, plus snacks, and comes home with donuts and cookies and Fritos… and I’ve regained 15. the only way for me to lose weight is to not have the stuff in the house. I can’t resist it 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week.
Since the second knee replacement at the end of August I have lost 14.5 pounds without trying. I wish dieting were this simple, but unfortunately most of this is attributable to intensive physical therapy necessitated by damage done to my peroneal nerve which has resulted in an inability to walk without rolling my toes under on the afflicted side. I should know in six months whether I will need to walk with an orthotic for the rest of my life or not…
mrgawe, Sensa might be your friend, if you have the strength to grab one of those powder straws and put it in a beer stein full of warm water.