Weight change +/- in lbs: 0
*Sometimes (S)
1. Start each meal with a soup and/or salad and/or fruit. S
2. Follow the 50/50 plate method for your meals, filling half your plate (by visual volume) with non-starchy vegetables and 50% (by visual volume) with minimally processed starches. Choose fruit for dessert. Y
3. Greatly reduce or eliminate added sugars and added salts. This includes gourmet sugars and salts, too. If either is troublesome for you, you can eliminate them. Y
4. Eliminate all animal foods (dairy, meat, eggs, fish, seafood). Y
5. Eliminate all higher fat plant foods (i.e., nuts, seeds, avocados, tofu, soy). Y
6. Eliminate any added oil. Y
7. Eliminate all higher calorie-dense foods including flour products (i.e., bread, bagels, muffins, crackers, dry cereals, cookies, cakes), puffed cereals, air-popped popcorn and dried fruit. Y
8. Don't drink your calories (especially from juices & sugar-sweetened beverages). Y
9. Follow these principles, eating whenever you are hungry until you are comfortably full. Don't starve yourself and don't stuff yourself. Y
10. Avoid being sedentary and aim for at least 30 minutes or more of moderate exercise daily (i.e., brisk walking). S
Victories, comments, concerns, questions:
This last week was a major setback for me. Unfortunately, next week might be as well.
Last week, I suffered another sudden hearing loss event. I had that several years ago, but this time was a lot worse. The dizziness I've been dealing with has made life extremely difficult.
I've been seen by an ENT, who's been treating me.
I'm waiting to get an MRI.
In spite of it all, I'm still doing the best I can to stay with MWL.
As soon as the dizziness goes away, and I get through the second Covid shot next week, and finally recover from that as well, I hope to be back in a stronger and more confident training and MWL mode.
When I'm in a good groove with MWL and my cycle training flowing into a good momentum, I seem to lose weight fairly consistently.
It's just hard being patient due to setbacks and occurrences beyond my control.
I'm certain I'm in for it with the second Covid shot, because my son got very sick after his second shot, so I feel because of my adverse reaction to the first one, I'm very likely in the high-risk group for bad reactions.
I'm looking forward to being protected as best one can be against Covid. However, I'm certainly not happy with how I have to get there!
At least, I'm not succumbing to using food and alcohol (which I did a bit yesterday), in order to comfort myself. That's usually my go-to when I'm feeling down or anxious.