Lyndzie wrote:WildGoose, gosh, I am over this dreariness, too. It’s been just hovering around freezing here, but not quite cold enough to snow. That is amazing that you are even lower than your anticipated end weight. How did you come up with a number? I’m making a batch of chili tomorrow as well, it’s perfect this time of year.
Lindsey, it was 40 degrees here today (a veritable heat wave), so the Gander and I, silly geese that we are, went out and washed the car. Believe me, the hot chili that was waiting for us tasted great after that!
How I came up with the end weight number was really a combination of things. I started my latest round of MWL at 190 (last March). My previous low was 160, so I was sort of aiming for that. I got there, but the clothes I used to wear at 160 didn’t quite fit (last time I was 160 was 12 years ago, and age makes a big difference in how the weight comes off the body), so now what? I thought gee, I was 150 when I started grad school, and I felt really good, so maybe I should just keep going and aim for 150. But my last time at 150 was in 1985 — could I do it again?
Yes. I got to 150. That was really great, and I wouldn’t have cared if I’d stayed there. But I also thought about what my mother used to always say was her goal weight (she was the same height as I was) — 145. I’d never been 145 in my adult life. 145 was the ultimate goal in the back of my mind. No way was I going to get to 145.
But I did. I wasn’t even trying, and I hit 145. I just kept eating the way I’d been eating all along. I still couldn’t wear all my "thin clothes" — but this time it was because they were too big!
Dr. Doug Lisle talks about equilibrium. He says you don’t hit a plateau, you’re just in equilibrium between the way you’re eating and what you weigh. I wondered what my point of equilibrium would be if I didn’t change how I was eating. And I think I’ve found out. About 136 or 137. Occasionally 135. Rarely 138. But that’s where I’ve been since Thanksgiving. I didn’t plan it that way, it just happened.
Am I too thin? Some people say I am, but I don’t think so. I’m 5’ 10.5”, so at 136, that puts me at a BMI of 19.2. I’m OK with that. So is the Gander. He's naturally very lean, so we now match! I don’t have the courage to post before and after pictures like
Mark did over on the MWL forum (congrats,
Mark, you look fabulous!), but people can tell I’ve lost weight.
I went back and looked at the records from the major diet I did to get to 160 the first time. My highest, and it was my heaviest weight ever, was 237, in 2005. So I can actually say that, 14 years later and many ups and downs in between, I have lost 100 pounds.
Long answer to a short question,
Lindsey, but there it is.
And well done on starting to drop that extra weight that snuck back on when your scale batteries died!
Goose