Hi all FF'ers,
It is the last day of August, 2009. I have been living in my new eating lifestyle now since January 1st of this year. My rough estimation puts that at approximately 242 days.
Looking back, I am satisfied that I was pretty dedicated with only a few (what I consider) bad days of over eating.
Today, I stepped upon the same scale that I have been using since I began monitoring my weight back in January. I sometimes wonder about its accuracy because the scale was obtained at either a second hand store or a yard sale somewhere. Even though it appears to be a good quality "medical office looking" type of scale, accuracy in weight is not important because it is the "change in weight" I am more interested in than the actual reading itself. So, accurate or not, the difference in weight should still be usable; thus, according to the dial, I have lost a total of 90 pounds since the start of this year (8 months). That is an average of 11.25 pounds per month.
The other observation I would like to share with you nice readers of this forum is that I am starting to get "comments" from people who have not seen me in a while. I will admit that these comments are extremely encouraging for me (the fat and ugly kid hiding now for 45 years). I would like to share a few of these events with you now…
Event 1: A neighbor I have not seen for a few months stopped over. He stepped out of his truck and looked at me from about 20 feet away. His eyes went wide and mouth dropped open. He said, "Buddy… you're fading… if I would have known you had it so rough I would have brought you some food!"
Event 2: My mother is 85 years old. She has been a critic of my weight since she started feeding me when I was an infant. She saw me recently after a few months (we are not that close) and a few days later phoned me and said; "Wow, if you lose any more weight you'll almost be handsome". Needless to say, I don't spend too much money on Mother's day. I still took her comment as a compliment because I know how hard it was for her to give it.
Event 3: My wife wanted Chinese food on Friday so we stopped into a restaurant that we do not frequent very often anymore (probably since I started FF'ing). The bimbo waitress that took the take-out order (with absolutely no class or manners) almost shouted for the whole restaurant to hear; "WOW – WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE? HOW MUCH WEIGHT DID YOU LOSE? ARE YOU OK?" I didn't know whether to crap my pants or run out of the restaurant. Every customer at every table was now staring at me. I just smiled, pushed thoughts of murder out of my mind, and mumbled something about not eating at Chinese restaurants so often. My wife placed an order to take out and we left to get some groceries (while the food was being prepared). Later, I dropped my wife off at the restaurant to pick up the order that was now ready. When my wife came back to the car, she said that the waitress (with the other waitresses hanging around listening) starting asking my wife questions about my weight loss. My wife did the best to explain to her what I was doing to accomplish my goal. Personally, I'm not sure I need another episode like that experience to let me know I have lost a few pounds but it definitely confirmed with me that I am making progress.
So there you have it; my 8 month status report. There is a lot that I could add to this report of my observations and struggles along my journey. One observation that I will add is that I am finding it becoming very easy to eat as I do, dedicatedly. On Saturday, my wife's daughter (21) and a few of her friends camped out here on our acreage and partied around a campfire (drinking like sailors) until about 6 AM. I found them very entertaining (I don't drink these days to help me lose weight) but could only keep up with them until about 2 AM. All throughout the night, bags of potato chips and snacks, etc. were being passed around and I had very little problem saying no. I do not want to mess up now after journeying down this new road for 8 months.
Keep Fasting everyone!
Rob
Ps. Yesterday, I ate a grilled sirloin steak followed by half a coconut cream pie with 3 scoops of ice cream. Life is good!
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