Weight Loss

Well not quite 50 - I have a few months to spare - so shall we say weight loss for the nearly menopausal woman anyways? This is my personal search for a long-term sustainable weight loss. 

Rapid Weight Loss 

I can do quick weight loss, I've done it lots of times before. You can read about my weight loss journey to date here: 

Lunch 

• sandwich or small quiche
•  coffee 

mid-Afternoon

• packet of chocolate biscuits, or lollies (candies) or chocolate several coffees 

pre-Dinner

• gin and diet tonic (beer on a hot day ie not often) 
• 1/2 a large packet of chips (crisps) 

Dinner

• another gin or maybe wine
• balanced meal with 2-3 vegetables, lean meat (usually chicken), no added salt. 

Later

• chocolate or desert or cheese and biscuits (lots) 

Actually that's a bad day! I only do the afternoon chocolate run about 3 days a week, and actually we've already cut out the chips with the drinks before dinner (though not the drinks!) I probably only drink about 5 nights a week.

The trouble with most weight loss programs, whether they are pushing coconut oil or oolong tea, is that:

• they are unreasonable and extreme and make you hungry
• they won't work for everyone 

For some reason, the body is pretty conservative. I travel a lot, and a lots of tourists go to Asia and immediately get sick. They blame it on poor hygiene on the part of the locals. But the locals don't get sick, nether do I normally.

That's because I eat Asian food at home at least once a week. If you NEVER eat curry, rice or Tom Yum soup - what do you think your body is going to do if you suddenly start doing it two or three times a day. Stay home and camp in your local Chinatown - and eat local - see what happens - exactly the same I'm sure. 

My body is a finely tuned machine - it knows EXACTLY when its being starved and it slows down my metabolism ASAP, to wait until its usual chocolate quota is returned.  Frankly - short of a definite and immediate life-threatening disease, diagnosed by my doctor - I don't do hungry voluntarily! 

So I'm not quite sure why I tried fasting for weight loss, low-calorie diets, the lot. None of them worked, because they weren't sustainable - for me. 

Now some people I know can sustain being hungry and going low-calorie - I know a woman who has done it for decades - but not me - and not a lot of other people if I look around me! 

Breakfast

• 2 eggs 
• 2 bacon - fried with no added oil (I have magic wok that does this - briiliant!) 

Lunch: 

• Salad with cheese and/or salmon, tuna or chicken. 

I'll try to cut out the snacks and leave dinner alone for the moment - see if this still feels reasonable in a week! 

This is a diet in progress - I'll update as change things up and around and see what does and does not work!