I read somewhere that obese people won't get the full benefit of any coronavirus vaccines that come along. The article said that the obese have this problem with just about any vaccine, not just a potential vaccine for coronavirus. I decided to embark on a more serious endeavor to lose more weight. I have a lot of weight to lose before I can go from obese to merely overweight, but I'll set more modest goals for weight loss than that. The project started a few weeks ago, and I already can count some pretty significant weight loss. Since late 2018, I've lost about thirty pounds, going from 280 pounds to about 250. About half of that weight loss started since the pandemic began, with quite a bit of it these past few weeks.
I decided to eat a lot of the same foods I took on since the pandemic. Mostly I eat really easy to prepare stuff such as baked fish, or hamburger with Hamburger Helper, or even a corn dog for lunch, for example. The difference lies in the portion sizes I eat of these kinds of food. I have one breakfast taco for breakfast instead of two, I have one corn dog for lunch instead of three, and so on. I look at the recommended serving sizes for everything from prepared Hamburger Helper to peanuts to crackers and try to stick with that. I snack on fruit lot as well. I try to eat some kinds of vegetables everyday too.
To mark my progress I give myself token rewards on my calendar, such as a green foil star for following my diet for a day, a gold foil star for going on a walk, and a little animal sticker for not eating things like cake, or cookies, or ice cream. I also track how many sweetened beverages such a coffee or tea I have a day with a little sticker for each of these kinds of drinks. I gave up a lot of artificial sweetener and just try to watch my consumption of sugar. I try to drink lots of ice water with a wedge of lime instead.
I also give myself a blue foil star for NOT weighing myself over a twenty-four hour period of time. Very important! Nothing drives me crazier, faster than obsessively weighing myself every day, sometimes more than once a day. I try to go some number of days without giving in to the urge to weigh myself. For example, I can mark five days as my record of no scale-stepping so far, so I then try for a goal of three days as my next marker to set. I tend to set goals that way; go for a little LESS the next time instead of a little more. That way, if I do make three days in a row, I can always try for more and thus set another record. I try to spend that time NOT weighing myself every day enjoying all of the weight I've already taken off. At this business I patronize almost every day, I can see my whole body in the store window, and I can see the difference in my improved appearance. I can just register a lot of happiness on the progress I've made so far without getting all hung up on trying to lose a whole lot more weight.
I decided to eat a lot of the same foods I took on since the pandemic. Mostly I eat really easy to prepare stuff such as baked fish, or hamburger with Hamburger Helper, or even a corn dog for lunch, for example. The difference lies in the portion sizes I eat of these kinds of food. I have one breakfast taco for breakfast instead of two, I have one corn dog for lunch instead of three, and so on. I look at the recommended serving sizes for everything from prepared Hamburger Helper to peanuts to crackers and try to stick with that. I snack on fruit lot as well. I try to eat some kinds of vegetables everyday too.
To mark my progress I give myself token rewards on my calendar, such as a green foil star for following my diet for a day, a gold foil star for going on a walk, and a little animal sticker for not eating things like cake, or cookies, or ice cream. I also track how many sweetened beverages such a coffee or tea I have a day with a little sticker for each of these kinds of drinks. I gave up a lot of artificial sweetener and just try to watch my consumption of sugar. I try to drink lots of ice water with a wedge of lime instead.
I also give myself a blue foil star for NOT weighing myself over a twenty-four hour period of time. Very important! Nothing drives me crazier, faster than obsessively weighing myself every day, sometimes more than once a day. I try to go some number of days without giving in to the urge to weigh myself. For example, I can mark five days as my record of no scale-stepping so far, so I then try for a goal of three days as my next marker to set. I tend to set goals that way; go for a little LESS the next time instead of a little more. That way, if I do make three days in a row, I can always try for more and thus set another record. I try to spend that time NOT weighing myself every day enjoying all of the weight I've already taken off. At this business I patronize almost every day, I can see my whole body in the store window, and I can see the difference in my improved appearance. I can just register a lot of happiness on the progress I've made so far without getting all hung up on trying to lose a whole lot more weight.
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