The century mark
Posted January 29, 2006 at 8:32 pm
Well, what a difference a week makes! I cut back on the eating out/takeout (from 5 to 1), the Diet Coke (from 1/2 gal each day to 1/2 gal for the week), and added in a tiny bit of exercise (an hour total on the treadmill).
I lost a little over 4 lbs!!! I’m just under 275, which means I’ve lost 100lbs!!! Big yay!
The good news is that I can easily see losing the next 100 the same way. The way I’m eating now just works great for me. All it has taken is to change the focus from obsessing about weight loss to choosing health, and the rest has just fallen into place.
The bad news is that I know I’m just a meal or two away from slip-sliding back into familiar patterns of eating. I know this, as it was just two months ago that I had the last slip (at Thanksgiving; reported here, resolved here). I know I’ve been lucky to get back on track as quickly as I have.
This is really top of mind for me, as I’m off to Florida next week to make up the Xmas vacation I had to cancel. All my past slips have been when I’ve been away from home and my routine. Should be interesting to see how I handle it this time.
I do have one thing going for me…it looks like invasive surgery is in my future. My fibroids haven’t responded to the Lupron the way I’d hoped, so this is either because of my weight, because of my weight loss, or because the ovarian cyst I found out about in my MRI in October was not functional :(. I’m not close enough to menopause to wait until that takes care of all this. So, given a possible hysterectomy on the horizon, the idea of losing even more weight is compelling. The fitter I can get, the easier my recovery should be.
Gee, I wonder if I can talk my ob/gyn into a tummy tuck while she’s at it :).
January 30th, 2006 at 8:04 am
I hope you have a great vacation. Your remark out being “a meal or two away from slip-sliding” hit home. I realize that I will be a meal or two away from slipping for the rest of my life. Not a good situation, but good to be aware of.
January 30th, 2006 at 10:49 am
Congrats on the 100 mark!
January 30th, 2006 at 12:07 pm
Have you discussed the possibility of having a myomectomy with your doctor? I had one about seven years ago, and although the fibroids have come back, they are not big, and are not growing crazy like they did before (I believe because I do not have the kind of stress I had in my life that I did then).
There’s also the technique, and I’m blanking on what it’s called, but I’ll be there is information about it on WebMD, where they inject little plastic pellets into the arteries feeding the fibroids, causing the fibroids to shrivel up and die.
January 30th, 2006 at 1:19 pm
I had been hoping to do something on the less invasive size, so I hadn’t considered myomectomy.
My first ob/gyn tried a balloon ablation on me in July that failed (cavity too large courtesy of the fibroids apparently). I have been told I’m a good candidate for UAE (the plastic pellet technique). But the MRI for that procedure turned up a fairly healthy sized ovarian cyst. So my current ob/gyn has had me try the Lupron so I could get thru the holidays, and see where I am.
My ultrasound is scheduled for the 13th, so if the cyst isn’t an issue, she’s willing to explore some kind of cauterization (the fibroid that’s causing the bleeding is on the endometrial wall). Or maybe I can get by with one of those progesterone IUDs or even Depo Provera. But if she needs to do something with the cyst, then hysterectomy is looking more likely.
I’m not particularly wedded to my uterus (no longer childbearing age), but I’d like to avoid a serious surgery/recovery. We’ll see!
January 31st, 2006 at 11:51 am
A big “yay!” from me on losing the 100 pounds, Beth. Have the best vacation.
January 31st, 2006 at 11:55 am
Thanks so much!
February 19th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
I’ve just found you and will be going back to look through your archives—but I know already that I’m going to enjoy your writing. I, too, have dealt with (and have had treatment for) compulsive eating, and have lost about eighty pounds from my highest weight of 330 by stabilizing my eating patterns and cutting as much processed food as possible out of my diet. In the polarities of fat positivity (towards which I strive) vs. weight loss blogging, it’s wonderful to find someone with whom I have so much in common. You’re on my sidebar already, and I look forward to continuing to read (and congratulations on 100 pounds lost!).