Well! We’ve traveled along for almost a week. Tomorrow will be a week that we’ve changed our life, our eating habits, and decided that the excess weight must go!
We’ve done so well! We did go out on Saturday night for a BBQ hosted by Meryl (Russ’s sister and my sister-in-law) and Alan (Meryl’s boyfriend) and that was a tough one because she had lots of goodies however with us in mind, she did have fish (made on the grill) and it was truly delicious. It was the first time we ever had Mackeral like that. Also included was lot of other things but I stuck with the bbq’d chicken, a burger (without the bread) and did have a bottle of wine. So although it wasn’t exactly what I should have eaten it was light years away from what I would have eaten.
We both climbed right back onto the wagon the next morning for breakfast and have done well ever since. I felt the dinner I made for Sunday was a bit boring but there were lots of different vegetables (mostly out of the garden) with no butter on of course, potatoes (boiled with mint) along with beef brisket of which Russ and I had a very tiny piece and no gravy although I did make gravy for our guests. Russ and I did wonderfully and stayed within our caloric limit.
Since the weekend, we’ve done well including the lunches I pack for Russ. He had been taking sandwiches but we have banned bread from the house (since he loves it) and although we have a freezer full, we are giving away the uncut loaves (they’re so good!) and keeping the sliced and only getting out of the freezer the exact number of slices for any company we might be having. Before the beginning of our life changing diet, we would have polished off those loaves within a couple of days between us (including what he took for his packed lunches).
It is quite easy to see how we managed to double our body sizes and although I’m eating more healthy than I have, bread wasn’t something I used to have much of until I moved here. A great habit to get out of it. Russ quit cold turkey but hen this is the person that stopped smoking years ago without any help at all…just stopped!
Thanks so much for the emails of encouragement (including comments here) we have received. It is so helpful we have backup support. It’s difficult for us although both of us are committed. I said this morning that next year this time we should be doing quite well in the weight department.
I’m sure we will weigh in with good results tomorrow as Wednesday is our weighing day. I don’t really want to weigh more than once per week.
I’m sure I’ll have weight results tomorrow!
Until then….keep us in your thoughts!
