I am now very near the end of the diet that I have been on since late May of last year. I am not at my original goal of weighing less than 180 pounds, I weigh 190. But, I have achieved all of my other goals and I am starting to wonder if I need for my weight to go that low.
At my monthly appointment with my doctor, he noted that my face was starting to look gaunt. My wife echoed his comments. Her thoughts were that I am in great physical shape, my health problems have been alleviated, and maybe the weight charts are not that relevant at my age. I am within five pounds of what I weighed when I was running marathons in my early thirties.
I have accomplished a lot since I started to lose weight. My present lifestyle allows me to wear blue jeans almost all of the time. I have gone from wearing a loose fit size 44 waist to a regular fit size 36. I have gone from wearing a size XL-XXL shirt to wearing a large. I just bought a new suit and the jacket was a 43, I was wearing a tight 48-50 before. This measurement is really good considering that my chest is now really well developed due to the fact that I have been swimming a lot.
I am not looking back; I am burning my bridges clothes wise. I have taken every pair of blue jeans and all shirts to Goodwill the moment that I outgrow them.
Please pardon me for boasting, but I am not finished. I am off of blood pressure medicine; it checked 114/74 at my doctor’s office. Before the diet, I had suffered from lower back sacroiliac pain on a daily basis. The pain is gone. I am much more agile.
I recently played racquetball for 45 minutes with my very athletic 29 year old son. He beat me in every game, but he was still sore from the “workout” that I gave him several days later.
I am still swimming laps. I have pulled back from the workouts that I was doing, but I am swimming a minimum of 1000 yards four days a week. I can wear a Speedo racing suit and no one laughs.
The day that I have dreaded since I started the diet is coming rather quickly. You see, I have lost weight before. In my opinion, it is a very easy task to lose weight. The real tough job is keeping the weight off. Diet fads are popular because they report how much weight is lost. They try to avoid following people for a year or two after they finish the diet.
It is going to help me writing this series on Thursdays because it will require me to be accountable to my readers. I have bragged about the easy part, losing the weight. Let’s see how I do now!