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Down 27.2 pounds in 33 Days and My Cholesterol Results

When you wish upon a star, your dreams may come true.  Right now I feel like I’m living in a dream.  I stepped on the scale today and I’m down 27.2 pounds in 33 days.  Plus, I had my blood drawn yesterday at my doctor’s to run a few numbers and my cholesterol is down to 117.  What an amazing number to see.  A healthy number.  All my hard work and clean eating is really paying off.  I wish I would have listened to my friend a year ago when I first heard about Omnitrition and their Omni-Drops.

I wanted to share a portion of the book, Pounds and Inches from Dr. Simeons.   At the very beginning of his book he talked about Obesity as a disorder and says this:
As a basis for our discussion we postulate that obesity in all its many forms is due to an abnormal functioning of some part of the body and that every ounce of abnormally accumulated fat is always the result of the same disorder of certain regulatory mechanisms. Persons suffering from this particular disorder will get fat regardless of whether they eat excessively, normally or less than normal. A person who is free of the disorder will never get fat, even if he frequently overeats.
 
Those in whom the disorder is severe will accumulate fat very rapidly, those in whom it is moderate will gradually increase in weight and those in whom it is mild may be able to keep their excess weight stationary for long periods. In all these cases a loss of weight brought about by dieting, treatments with thyroid, appetite-reducing drugs, laxatives, violent exercise, massage, baths, etc., is only temporary and will be rapidly regained as soon as the reducing regimen is relaxed. The reason is simply that none of these measures corrects the basic disorder.
 
I am this person that Dr. Simeon describes in his book.  I have been moving towards an eating  clean lifestyle for the past three years but didn’t have much success in the weight loss category.   Although I was feeling better and knew I was feeding my body the nutrients that it needed to remain healthy, the weight was still an issue.  Thanks to his research and trials with his patients 
in Italy, I feel he has unlocked the secret to losing weight – for me.  I have been on almost every diet out there and have never had much success.  There is an Omni support group on facebook for customers of the products.  Someone was mentioning the other day that they were disappointed that they had only lost 3 pounds in two days.  My response to her was that we put way too much emphasis on what the number of the scale is.  We need to know that by eating a good diet full of whole foods, we are feeding our body with vitamins and minerals.  Imagine if we just ate what we wanted and didn’t care if it was processed and full of ingredients we couldn’t even pronounce. I remember when I was following the Weight Watchers plan and celebrated a 1 pound loss each week.  So what this one person on Omni-Drops lost in two days and was disappointed in, I would be celebrating at the three week mark on Weight Watchers.
 
If anyone would like information on Omnitrition and the Omni-Drops, please feel free to email me at cleaneating@comcast.net or leave a comment here on my blog (which I love receiving by the way).

Day 9 – 11.6 pounds lost – Mashed Radishes

Day 9 of the Omni-Drops and I lost only .2 pounds yesterday.  That’s okay with me as I’m focusing on the overall total, which stands at 11.6 – nice number for 9 days.

I did have a great non-scale victory last night.  My husband and I went to see Lone Survivor at the movies and I chopped up an apple, squirted it with 1/2 lemon juice and a few drops of SweetLeaf’s Stevia Drops in English Toffee and brought that with me to the movies.  I knew I couldn’t have the popcorn, which I LOVE and needed to be prepared.  By the way, the movie was amazing.  I had read Marcus’ book when it first came out and I couldn’t wait to watch the movie.  I was surprised to see him in it and very proud that he decided to share his story with the rest of the world.

Okay, now onto what I ate yesterday.

Breakfast:  1/2 grapefruit
Lunch: Curry chicken, asparagus and cucumbers
Dinner:  Filet Mignon and mashed radishes – If you’ve never tried mashed radishes, you need to.  I really dislike raw radishes but cooking them, completely changes their flavor.  I also made a “mock” gravy that I added to the radishes.  I added some water and 1T of milk to the pan that I cooked the steak in and scrapped all the goodness off the bottom of the pan.  I then added that sauce to the radishes and mixed in.
Snack:  Sliced apple (at the movies)

 
 
I also stumbled upon this great graphic that shows what 5, 10, 15 and 20 pounds of fat look like.  It’s always nice to visualize how much weigh you lose as you go along.
 
 
Did you set a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight?  How are you doing?  I’d love to hear from you so I can cheer you on.
 

 

Week 7: Weight Watchers

Today was my weigh in day for Weight Watchers.  It’s been 7 weeks and I’ve lost a total of 8 pounds.  This week alone I hit -3.8.

Week 1:  n/a – I didn’t weigh in as I was traveling for work
Week 2:  -2.4
Week 3:  -2.2
Week 4:  -0.6
Week 5:  -1.2
Week 6: +2.2
Week 7:  -3.8

Week 6 was the week of my 45th birthday.  Although I didn’t celebrate with a birthday cake, I did get lazy with tracking what I was eating.  I learned that I need to track.  So back on track I got and did much better on week 7.

I won’t be able to weigh in next week as I’ll be traveling for work.  I’ll also be taking a mini cruise to the Bahamas (next Friday to Monday).  I originally was only planning on working out a couple of times while at my conference and skipping out on the ship but those plans changed for the better yesterday.  I work from home and have two co-workers who also work from home, one in Nebraska and one in Oklahoma.  We try and work out together via video chat (either oovoo or facetime) from my iPad.  Next week, my co-worker from Nebraska will be staying in the same hotel room with me – so I have a feeling she’ll be dragging me to the gym more often than I planned on going.  Which is a good thing, right?

I picked up some granola bars, they were buy one get one free, to pack in my suitcase and carry-on.  I also plan on bringing some sliced cucumbers with little cups of hummus to eat on the plane.  I’m staying at an Embassy Suites and they offer a free breakfast that includes oatmeal.  My plan is to eat a cup of oatmeal with a piece of fruit for breakfast each morning.  Locate a place with a good salad as an option for lunch and then enjoy my dinners out with my friends/co-workers but still keep my points in check.

Anyone have any good travel tips to share?

I also wanted to talk a little bit this week about the topic we discussed at our Weight Watcher’s meeting – The How-Tos of Habits.  Habits are so hard to change but are very important to a successful weight loss.  There’s an old saying that says if you stick with something for 21 days (or 3 weeks) then you’ll create a new habit.  I can tell you that I have tried doing something for 3 weeks and by week 4 I still struggle with it as a habit.  I was not surprised to hear today that some habits take 18 to 254 days to actually make a behavior automatic.  That seemed so much more realistic to me.  Although I’d love for it to only take 3 weeks.  I realized that I’ve been creating habits since I was married, 25 years ago, that won’t take just 3 weeks to change.  Although I’m in it for the long haul and prepared to stick with it as long as it takes – even if it is 254 days.

So many times we make such large goals that they become something overwhelming.  It’s so easy to get discouraged if you set your goal so high.  That’s why Weight Watchers has you start out with hitting small weight goals like 5%, 10%, etc. for your weight loss.  This month their routine to work on is “what’s for lunch”.  Instead of having you plan out your whole day in advance (which still isn’t a bad idea) they break it down into a small doable goal.

One of my goals I’ve set for myself this past month was to eat breakfast.  Most of the time I make myself a smoothie with a vegetable such as kale or spinach as one of the main ingredients.  Part of keeping me on track with that “routine” was making sure I had fresh fruit and vegetables on hand.

It’ll be interesting to see how my habits/routines change while traveling this month.

What healthy behavior would you like to adopt?

What will you change this week to help you create that new habit?