One stone one month :-)

[Martin Canty]

I can hear the siren song of skinny jeans calling your name

I tell you, fitting into 32' pants feels good, particularly as I need a belt to hold them up🙂..... I had been denying that I was a 36' before & have a closet full of pants with missing buttons as testament😳

 

[PinkGrapefruit]

I tell you, fitting into 32' pants feels good, particularly as I need a belt to hold them up🙂..... I had been denying that I was a 36' before & have a closet full of pants with missing buttons as testament😳

32" trousers, wow that's slinky! Well done.

 

[PinkGrapefruit]

Just 4lb lost this month (now down to 179lb). Seems to have been a month of plateaus! Have also struggled to get enough sleep and enough water to drink. Do you get those days, where you don't get a moment to yourself, rushing to meetings, and fire fighting, and you talk all the water out of your body through vapour loss!?!

Maybe the drop from 4 to 2 meformin a day is impacting. I don't know. My BS isn't as good as it was, still managing to keep it within 5-7.5; but it does go a bit higher than it used to. I don't know why that is, I seem to get a BS hit, then my body does an insulin counter punch. I sometimes go 5.5 fast, 7.5 one hour after, 4.8 two hours after.

I do find it a bit relentless, the constant pursuit for as lower BS as possible. Feels like I am 'bouncing along the bottom' all the time.

I know weight loss slows as you get lower down, but it sucks! I'm down 38lb in total, and have slipped into some 34" slim fit suit trousers this morning. 5inches off the belly.

I'm still focused on 165lb. So what's that then? 14 more lbs. Might take a while! come on we can do this!

 

[grovesy]

Maybes it is the time of year. If some of the fir fighting is stress that impacts on the levels too.

 

[PinkGrapefruit]

Bucket loads of stress mate.

 

[grovesy]

Then that does not help, I am stress central here and suprised I have put no weight on this week, as off track. Though I said to my friend I am not as bad as I have been in the past.

 

[Ditto]

Very inspiring to read this thread. Well done on your weight loss. 🙂

 

[PinkGrapefruit]

Update from me.

Still trickling down. I'm over 5 inches off the waist now, and sitting here in those 34" slim fit chinos.

I'm 177lb now; fourty pounds lost in total; and each 1lb is taking a week or two to come off now. The handles of love have almost gone, but still a bit soft and squidgy with a bit off belly left so still focused on my 165lb target.

The geek in me has recorded my loss journey - I will share the chart when I'm done.

I'm gonna have some potato tomorrow - Christmas Day - but to be honest I'm not that bothered. I have been very active recently and found I need the odd 5carb snack to keep my BS above 5.

Talking about BS, I do find if I am less that 5 I am cranky, tired, and lacking focus. I will go down to 4.7 and really start to struggle. God knows how 3.7 would feel! I think I would be Stig of the dump!

I am well adjusted now to my low carb way of life. I like protein and veg without the carbs. It's nice to be full but not bloated. It's stunning when you are on a low carb diet just how pervasive and ubiquitous they are. Truly shocking.

I will try not to get too obsessed about fluctuations over the Christmas period, we all need some fun. But back on the routine next year, and the low carb for life.

 

[Northerner]

You've done an amazing job PG - what a fabulous achievement for the year, the year you turned things right around! 🙂 Enjoy your Christmas and New Year!

 

[Ditto]

Forty pounds off? Wow! Now that's really inspiring. 🙂

 

[AJLang]

Congratulations on your weight loss. That is really brilliant and, as Ditto said, inspiring 🙂

 

[weecee]

Well done on your efforts Pink Grapefruit. You seem to be really focused on helping yourself and success breeds success as they say. One day at a time is all we can do. All the best for 2017

 

[Martin Canty]

That is awesome, PG..... Keep up the progress

 

[PinkGrapefruit]

Six months since I started my weight loss and DX journey.

Started at 215lb now down to 174lb. So 43lb lost in six months.

I'm 34" trousers and they are comfortable, might need to look at the 32" jeans. Buying medium sized t-shirts and jumpers and a 16" collar fitted shirt.

I still have a few lb to go. No great drama, it is coming off. I plateaued a bit so was super tight on my diet for a week and made sure I drank lots of water, that has got be down below the 12 and a half stone mark on my scales. Next big milestone is to get below 12st.

I was 41" measured round a relaxed naval, now 35".

I still have my 165lb target weight, so 9lb left to go.

 

[Ditto]

Fabulous, what diet was this again? I need to do it!

 

[PinkGrapefruit]

Fabulous, what diet was this again? I need to do it!

Nothing specific, based around Dr Unwin's Diet Sheet http://tiny.cc/tqeugy

Basically no potatoes, pasta, rice, bread. Very little alcohol. Lots of water, low carb muffins and omelettes, chicken fish or prawns and salad bits at lunch. Meat and veg for tea. Trying to eat around 50g of carbs a day. Cauliflower cheese is the best - I eat this too often lol!

I have become a lot more sensitive to my body, if I'm a bit low, I will have a fee carbs as a boost.

I am chained to a desk and commute a long way to work. Also have young kids at home. But I wrap up warm and power walk at lunch for 15 min every day. That seems to really help the metabolism.

 

[Ditto]

Good grief, I'm already doing that! Except I don't have even the low carb muffins! I try for 20g of carbs a day, Induction Atkins. I intend to stick to it rigidly this year, if I don't lose a significant amount of weight I'm going to have to try something else. I always say I'm doing Atkins, but really I've spent years cheating. Now I've accepted I'm D I'm going to get with it. You are an inspiration.

 

[PinkGrapefruit]

Good grief, I'm already doing that! Except I don't have even the low carb muffins! I try for 20g of carbs a day, Induction Atkins. I intend to stick to it rigidly this year, if I don't lose a significant amount of weight I'm going to have to try something else. I always say I'm doing Atkins, but really I've spent years cheating. Now I've accepted I'm D I'm going to get with it. You are an inspiration.

20g a day is too for me. I get super gnarly! Indeed I know when I'm sailing as close to the wind as I can diet wise when I'm hungry and gnarly. I don't like that place, so stay above it, and take a slower course.
I honestly believe water is essential for weightloss. A good big glass right out of bed helps flush the nights toxins away, then I try to drink 2-3 litres during the day and tail off in the evening. I read somewhere that the liver and kidneys need lots of water to work efficiently, and a healthy liver is something to strive for with the big D.