Vital Statistics

A new start. My goal is to lose 20 pounds in six weeks. Hopefully down 3 inches off the waist and a body fat of 15%. Goal date is June 6th. CASS avoidance, ETL diet, and exercise.

Vital Statistics at start:
Weight - 184.5
Chest - 42
Waist - 41
Hips -  40
Body fat % - 24.5

CASS HAS HOLD OF ME

I'm getting back on the wagon! My Goal is to get to 165 in six weeks from my weigh in this morning. But first I need to go to bed. I am so tired of the roller coaster.

Why can't I stay with the program? I feel so much better when following ETL/

Back on the wagon the last two weeks. Avoiding CASS with a few set backs. I am exercising on the Gazelle and hit the Bowflex. Feel much better. Lost couple of pounds and 1/2 inch. Keep plugging!

Woohoo! Weighed in at 180!

After work with temperatures in the 50s I took a 30 minute walk.

B - Steel cut oats & 1/2 grapefruit
L - Zesty veggies with brown rice, apple
D - Sauted collards & onion, grilled portabello mushroom on WW round, dried cherries

OK, tomorrow is Burns Day and I am celebrating with the Scottish Society!

B - Steel cut oats & 1/2 grapefruit
L - Cabbage & lentil soup, walsa crackers w/hummous
D - Zesty Veggie Stew w/ brown rice, dried fruit

Weighed in 181

Week with no CASS!

Working day at Wally World. Steel cut oats for breakfast. Took in for lunch black beans & rice and an apple. Got home to watch the playoffs. Had popcorn. Thanks to my sister, I now pop the corn in a lunch bag in the microwave. Eat them plain.

For supper ate a Boca burger on a whole wheat round, with mustard and sliced pickle. Later had steamed collards, a bunch. A few dried cranberries was dinner. Well Sharon found some pistachios so I ate them. Feeling a little stuffed.

No, chocolate, salty snacks or alcohol for 6 days.

Weighed in 181.

Re-read this blog last night. My goodness on May 20th it will be five years I have been posting about my ETL experience. Some things stand out. I am on a roller coaster. My love affair with CASS which is a result of emotional eating from stress.

I really need to deal with that.

I think maintaining ETL will be much easier if I totally give up drinking alcohol. I do enjoy my drink. It is a stress release for me. I enjoy the social aspects of it. Not drinking would have an impact on my social life. Wow! That says something doesn't it? Okay, limit my drinking to a social occassion and one drink. You know, I think it just would be easier to quit, altogether.

Made a batch of steel cut oats.

Breakfast: Oatmeal, 1/2 grapefruit


Worked at the day job, this Saturday. Took my lunch to work which was steamed veggies and rice. Had an apple.

Tried a new receipe for dinner which was steamed bok choy with orange-agave sauce. Ate a serving of raw almonds and black beans and rice. Ate the last two of almond date banana 'cookies'.

Weighed in at 181

Back on the Wagon

CASS is a difficult mistress to dismiss. I am four days now in not seeing her.
My stats as of Wednesday, 1/18 is
Weight 184.o
Waist 41"
Fat % 25.5

Weighed in this morning at 182.

Have only eaten three meals a day with no snacks. Lunch and dinner have been homemade soups, stews, black beans & rice and spinach salads. Breakfast oatmeal. No alcohol, chocolate or salty snacks. Feeling fine.

Getting back on the wagon

A long slide and hot affair with CASS (chocolate, alcohol and salty snacks). Five days back into ETL. First day was a fast and that broke all my addictions. Really. Lost four pounds so far. Here were my starting stats on 12/15:
Weight 187
Waist 41
Fat % 26

Backslidden

It was a bad week with SAD (standard American diet). For this week I am up 4 pounds. Today, has been good.

weight:177.5

waist 39.5

B-banana
L-green smoothie
D-red pepper with humous, watermelon
Snack-pastachios