Note 16 - Promise To God Diet - Loss of 18 Kilos

By: shelley Mood: other Date: 10/21/2007 03:18:20 Music: None

Today I weighed 57.3 kilos.  I started out as 75.0 or maybe a little over (I can't remember) but pretty much I've almost lost about 18 kilos - I don't know at this point how much that is in pounds.  My goal weight was 55 kilos because that's what I remember I was one day years ago and I know I was at that time, more my correct body weight. 

 At this time, I'm on a 3 week bit of a crash diet - no, I wouldn't normally go on one, but atleast I've given it a time frame.  I'm having an orange a day - very filling with vitamin C and fibre I believe, with a few spoons of yoghurt (calcium) and then I have my chocolate milk and fruit juice.  That's it, and I don't get hungry, which is surprising even me.  Even though I was losing weight on my regular diet, it was taking a while for my stomach to go down so this is why I'm on this current temporary diet, and it's working at a fast pace.

I still would like at times the foods I used to eat, but in the future I will be more mindful of portion size.  It's so easy to over eat and eat much more than you need, hence, it's very easy to become overweight.  I thought about it the other day, when we invest in being more careful with the amount that we eat, we are investing in something 'higher' - our aims and objectives and goals are higher at that point in time.  High investment - high return.  Low investment - low return.  When you eat and eat and eat until you see there's no more chips in the packet - this is a low investment.  If you don't know how much you're going to eat until you've finished eating, that's got to be a low investment. 

 Before, I'd eat what I wanted, and as much of it as I wanted, as many times as I wanted it and it showed on my body.  I invested low in keeping my body in shape and my body reflected my choices.  Low investment - low return.  Now, I'm making a high investment and getting a high return.  I'm not used to being this thin, but I can get used to it.  When I get to about 55 kilos I'll see if I can post another up to date photo of me on this site next to another 'before' photo so you can see the difference. 

ps. I had to cut right down the peanut butter and hazelnut spread I was having - it was getting out of hand.  I have smaller portions of those now (on my regular diet).