Wed, Aug-17-16, 11:21
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New Member
Posts: 7
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Plan: atkins 20
Stats: 244/240.6/170
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Once more into the breach
Greetings, fellow warriors. It occurs to me that I have been on a diet for 50 years. I'll turn 69 next month and I am still facing the same weight issues I had when I was freshman in college. Then it was 20 or pounds to lose, today it is 50 or more. The road was slow and steady, about 15 pounds a decade. Stop smoking plus 10 extra, hit menopause, 15 extra, hurt my back, 10 more.
I have learned sugar in any form does not agree with me. Starch, grains, flour I crave, but eventually add their hardy dose of fatigue, loss of energy, depression and hopelessness. I have succeeded at times, lost 20, 30 even 40 pounds, but I never lasts.
So with the number 70 looming, I try again, motivated by a sudden unexpected and horrible encounter with a 3-way mirror in a department store.
It occurs to me weight has been the single most destructive element of my life, I wonder if there is any point to giving it yet another Monday morning effort. But it's better than a slow descent into a permanent Barcolounger.
So 4th day, 3 pounds of water. and I'm off. Kgm
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