The Big Meltdown
current song on: “Chariot” Gavin Degraw
current attitude: good
Well I looked outside and it was just as I suspected, all the snow is gone from last winter. I’m ok with that. One of the things that seems finally officially gone from last winter as well, is the weight I put on. It just doesn’t GO away anymore, you have to MAKE it go away. Encourage it to go away, bribe it at times..offer it a deal.
The fact that it is a hundred degrees every day also makes it easier, when every ounce of liquid you have cconsumed in the last 12 years comes out of your body in one day.
There are a million and 4 weight loss plans these days, low carb, high carb, low fat..etc..counting points..you name it
Some people have these diets that they can get all this food and lose weight. . However the only way for me to trim the excess, is to go hungry, which can be fatal, ESPECIALLY for Italian people. Thankfully starvation deaths are down in Italy.
Finding out my cholesterol was high didn’t make me happy, so I embarked on a quest to get it down and if I lost weight in the process, this was a good thing. I walk 2 miles every night for years so this was no problem. The process was easy...eat 7 servings of fruit and veggies a day. The jokes were flying around the office that I had gone south and no fun when it came time to order out. Also trying to tempt me by saying I didn’t actually need to lose weight...which I have been hearing from many. We all know this is the voice of the Devil telling me to eat some cake.
Me, the King of the Candy dish at the office was disappointing everyone. The candy remains, I just have less of it and give more away. Thats a big key, to give away more candy than you eat, this will help you lose weight...Tootsie Rolls don’t count, you have to have 25 of them a day to make 20 fat calories. I can’t eat 25 Tootsie rolls a week!
The process didn’t have immediate results.
However the fruits of my labor, (no pun intended) were really starting to show when I tried on a pair of size 36 pants and they fell right to my knees! SUCCESS! I don’t have a stomach anymore, it has been downgraded to a tummy!
(The 5 grades are:..gut, stomach, tummy, abdomen, abs, anorexia!)
When I was going to my physical therapy clinic I work at on Wednesdays, I walked in and could tell there was a joke going on as two of the more sarcastic PT’s had Satanic expressions on.
“Dave” one starts, “You look really good lately.”
I look suspiciously at them both like I know they are messing around. The other one goes, “Yeah, you look really hot. Nice and trim” Now I know they’re up to something. Then they can’t contain themselves any longer when one goes, “Your hair looks super.” Those who know me minus a Yankee hat know I have no hair. I almost busted out laughing. Then they wanted me to turn around.
“NO!” I told them and then they broke out in hysterics. Another therapist came over and said, “What’s going on?”
“Oh these two worked out a good joke on me!” I laughed.
One replied, “You know we love you right?”
“You must” I answered, “You spent 5 minutes to work out a joke on me before I got here.”
You know I LIVE for negative attention right? Middle kid syndrome.
The next day I came to work and there was a 5 lb bag of candy on my desk. Have I been THAT grouchy that they are trying to tell me something?
None the less, I feel good, whatever I’m doing, its working. After all if it wasn’t, no one would say anything at all!
current attitude: good
Well I looked outside and it was just as I suspected, all the snow is gone from last winter. I’m ok with that. One of the things that seems finally officially gone from last winter as well, is the weight I put on. It just doesn’t GO away anymore, you have to MAKE it go away. Encourage it to go away, bribe it at times..offer it a deal.
The fact that it is a hundred degrees every day also makes it easier, when every ounce of liquid you have cconsumed in the last 12 years comes out of your body in one day.
There are a million and 4 weight loss plans these days, low carb, high carb, low fat..etc..counting points..you name it
Some people have these diets that they can get all this food and lose weight. . However the only way for me to trim the excess, is to go hungry, which can be fatal, ESPECIALLY for Italian people. Thankfully starvation deaths are down in Italy.
Finding out my cholesterol was high didn’t make me happy, so I embarked on a quest to get it down and if I lost weight in the process, this was a good thing. I walk 2 miles every night for years so this was no problem. The process was easy...eat 7 servings of fruit and veggies a day. The jokes were flying around the office that I had gone south and no fun when it came time to order out. Also trying to tempt me by saying I didn’t actually need to lose weight...which I have been hearing from many. We all know this is the voice of the Devil telling me to eat some cake.
Me, the King of the Candy dish at the office was disappointing everyone. The candy remains, I just have less of it and give more away. Thats a big key, to give away more candy than you eat, this will help you lose weight...Tootsie Rolls don’t count, you have to have 25 of them a day to make 20 fat calories. I can’t eat 25 Tootsie rolls a week!
The process didn’t have immediate results.
However the fruits of my labor, (no pun intended) were really starting to show when I tried on a pair of size 36 pants and they fell right to my knees! SUCCESS! I don’t have a stomach anymore, it has been downgraded to a tummy!
(The 5 grades are:..gut, stomach, tummy, abdomen, abs, anorexia!)
When I was going to my physical therapy clinic I work at on Wednesdays, I walked in and could tell there was a joke going on as two of the more sarcastic PT’s had Satanic expressions on.
“Dave” one starts, “You look really good lately.”
I look suspiciously at them both like I know they are messing around. The other one goes, “Yeah, you look really hot. Nice and trim” Now I know they’re up to something. Then they can’t contain themselves any longer when one goes, “Your hair looks super.” Those who know me minus a Yankee hat know I have no hair. I almost busted out laughing. Then they wanted me to turn around.
“NO!” I told them and then they broke out in hysterics. Another therapist came over and said, “What’s going on?”
“Oh these two worked out a good joke on me!” I laughed.
One replied, “You know we love you right?”
“You must” I answered, “You spent 5 minutes to work out a joke on me before I got here.”
You know I LIVE for negative attention right? Middle kid syndrome.
The next day I came to work and there was a 5 lb bag of candy on my desk. Have I been THAT grouchy that they are trying to tell me something?
None the less, I feel good, whatever I’m doing, its working. After all if it wasn’t, no one would say anything at all!
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