by Artista » Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:12 pm
What I ate today:
Breakfast: green tea, cantaloupe, oat groats, cannellini beans, peach, steamed arugula
Snack: 2 figs
Lunch: Salad of shredded cabbage, tomatoes, sugar snap peas, onion, and carrot, steamed cauliflower, green beans, carrots, chickpeas
Snack: 2 apricots
Dinner: 3 cherries, raw carrot, cucumber, steamed cauliflower, broccoli, carrots, chickpeas, 1/2 sweet potato
MWL 10-point checklist: 10/10
Exercise: 45 minutes brisk walking
Meditation: 20 minutes
BP: 119/66
I have this quote tacked on my studio wall--
“To persevere, trusting in what hopes one has, is courage. The coward despairs.”—Euripides.
I have been a little on the despairing side lately, feeling like I can’t budge my weight or cholesterol. Wondering if I am destined to be a pudgy woman with clogged arteries. But the hopes I have for changing those two things is in the McDougall program, in the knowledge and experience of Jeff Novick, Dr. McDougall, and others here on the forums. To persevere is the same to me as time and adherence. I seem to be one of those people who don’t see immediate results, I especially need the benefit of time and adherence. Around the time I started back on MWL, I walked down to a local park and was swinging on the swings. It was a beautiful morning and watching the blue sky over head as I was swinging, welled up in me the joy of being alive. I thought of my friend whom I walk with who has to walk slowly because of her knees and has a hard time getting her butt to fit in the swing. I felt grateful for all the right choices I have made, that I can walk or run, and my butt does fit in the swing. So now I’m stepping it up a notch with MWL, trying to lose those last 10-15 lbs and bring my cholesterol into a healthy range. This morning I walked to that same park and swung on the swing. I didn’t have that same joyful, epiphany moment as last time but I do feel a solidifying of my resolve and commitment. The encouraging news is that this morning I weighed myself and I have lost a little more weight. Overall I have lost 3.4 lbs since starting MWL on May 15th. That’s about 1/2 a pound a week. I’ll take that. I am a slow loser and to be able to lose weight without deprivation, hunger, or suffering is a gift. My weight now is 139.2. Although I decided to not really have a goal weight, I was hoping to eventually make my way to 130, which is less than 10 lbs away. My weight has gone up and down and probably will continue to do so and I don't know what my cholesterol will do, but I'm going to do my best not to let those things derail me. I know eating this way is the best thing I can do for my weight and health.