Friday saw me at 283.6 - so under 5 pounds from where I was last November at a doctor's apt. I am almost done losing the results of my very bad behavior over Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Today is 283.0 - my guess is that the structure of the 16/8 IF is really helping me as I am no longer snacking on cm cheese
I am down 3.5 pounds since Monday. Yes, I do think this is water weight but this is what happens, my lymphedema resolves.
I still remember with pride how happy my lymphedema therapist was for me as at the end of having lost all the weight, the lymphedema was about 98% resolved and she was talking about me being able to move out of lymphedema garments to a lighter support knee high, something more "normal" in appearance
I know I can get there again. Beginning to
believe it.
Yesterday ended up making my first meal my rm, as I was at the hospital which only has a small self serve café. They had NO real eggs on the hot buffet - just egg white rounds, which I chose two of, and in a moment of piggyness 3 small sausage rounds. Then I had a moment (but couldn't put back the hot stuff) when I saw they had their salad bar up with hard boiled eggs. So...small salad of fresh spinach, some shredded cheese, an egg, tiny bit of diced tomato...but no appropriate salad dressings (I mean really, the "fat-free" dressing had high fructose corn syrup as like the second ingredient)...ended up choosing the ranch where sugar in any form was NOT in first 5 ingredients. At that point, said okay this is my rm, and chose a bakery item at the counter as the rest of my carbs (buttermilk in the ranch was the other carb item).
Made this an early brunch (yes, a 9 am brunch) and didn't eat again until a cm dinner of cm turkey breast and some plain chuck roast, spinach, 1 oz. half and half with my coffee.
Today we have a lot to do, so I get some exercise! yes!