Before this Support Message Board is no more, I needed to post my progress and my anxieties.
Well, I would like to tell you that I have been forging on during this pandemic and being true to my weight loss plan. However, that has NOT been the case!! I jumped on the scale because I felt my "back fat" returning and lo and behold I'm almost 200 pounds AGAIN!! What the heck!!
Anyway, I am trying to calm down and focus on how to get myself out of this predicament.
So for me, it is back to "square one".
Even if no one replies to my post, just writing about my dereliction makes me feel better. I wish Pam were here.
Take care everyone
Re: Yo-Yo-ing
Posted by Jean W on 4/28/2020, 4:09 pm, in reply to "Yo-Yo-ing"
Hey there Yvonne-
I'm in the same boat as you. I also haven't been true to my weight loss plan. I've let myself drift back into eating the wrong things and too much of everything. I'm really trying to calm down too. I've been helping a sick family member lately and have let stress and anxiety get the better of me.
I'll meet you at "square one". We can do this!
Stressors
Posted by Yvonne on 4/28/2020, 4:58 pm, in reply to "Re: Yo-Yo-ing"
Jean W:
I can definitely relate. However, someone once told me that we have to do what the airline attendants tell us, "Put on YOUR oxygen mask first, before helping others."
As you may know, my husband had a massive stroke, has been in a long-term subacute rehab facility and he contracted COVID-19 with renal involvement. I can't tell you how frantic and upset I have been over the past two weeks. It's been a nightmare with worry. And with worry comes comfort food and all that goes with it——stinkin' thinkin'!!
Thank goodness, he recovered and is holding his own. Now, someone else told me that *I* have to take care of myself or else who will be around to take care of him.
Day #3 is almost done and I just know I can do it this time. Be it Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, Cambridge, Slimfast or whatever, if we just stick to what we started out with, WE CAN DO IT!!
Thank you for responding and taking this "step of faith" with me.
Re: Stressors
Posted by Jean W on 4/28/2020, 8:17 pm, in reply to "Stressors"
Hello Yvonne,
I knew your husband had a stroke a few months back and that he was in a rehab facility. I had no idea he contracted COVID-19. Oh my goodness. God bless you both. So glad to read he has recovered. I can only imagine the worry and stress you have been under. I suppose it been weeks since you have been able to see him.
I know you are right. If we just stick to a good plan, we will see results. I spent a lot of my youthful overweight years looking for the perfect plan. My thinking was if I could just find the right plan, then it would be so much easier to diet and lose weight. Ha ha, I'm sure you can guess how my search for the "perfect diet" went.
The Perfect Diet
Posted by Yvonne on 4/28/2020, 8:49 pm, in reply to "Re: Stressors"
I know from where you are coming Jean W.
I have been fat since I was in the 8th grade (actually the 7th). Me and my five sisters were always overweight. I think it was my Dad's "secret weapon" for all of his daughters to be less attractive to boys at that age and thereby not get pregnant as teenagers. Well, it worked!!
However, as I became a woman, I tried EVERY diet on the face of the earth——from the "monotony" diet, grapefruit diet, Teen TOPS, Weight Watchers, hypnosis and on and on.
When I became a physician, with my science background, I finally found THE PERFECT DIET. It happened to be the Cambridge Diet USA. I assiduously read the literature and the cited articles and references. I read all the articles and research by Dr. Alan Howard. Then, I put all of this in combination with my fellowship training at Columbia's Institute of Nutrition and found Dr. Howard was on to something.
As you can see, most other diets fail because of the metabolic imbalances and the nutritional deficits. Fasting is cool, but there is no nutrition in that. Weight Watchers has become corporate and just wants to sell you stuff. Any way, I knew that if I remained true to sole source of Cambridge, it would do the trick——and it did!!! I haven't been below 200 pounds for a sustained period of time since 1974. But, here I am still below 200 (barely) and it's been a year.
Why I am participating in The CHALLENGE (posted above) is I have always wanted to get down to 147 pounds. I don't know why that particular number has stuck in my head, but that's my goal.
No one envisioned that I would become a doctor but here I am. No one thought I would find someone who would love me enough to marry me, but we've been married for almost 46 years. I never thought I would have children, but now my two children are exceptional and wonderful adults. Now, I want to achieve that last goal---147 pounds.
I am betting that my remaining Cambridge will take me there.
I also learned that it's really not the Cambridge, in and of itself, it is the MINDSET!!! So, here we go.