On August 10th, in the post “What doesn’t kill you…”, I was saying I had to have patience about my weight loss, or lack of it because, after the first week or so of losing mainly water, your body needs to heal and adapt to the new diet regime and only *then* will steady loss happen. These plateaus will occur many times during the path to fitness getting frustrated and giving up is not productive in any way.
This is why my post yesterday suggested I start to follow the CSIRO diet plan, and put it into action straight away, so I did.
Breakfast was a shake, as has become the new normal. I had two Criskits with tuna for a snack, also as has become usual. For lunch, UltraSlim soup with an apple and tomato (just fancied both), and for dinner some Laksa soup with two more Cruskits and tuna. The results?? I weighed this morning and was a kilo heavier… wtf is going on?? 😀
I discussed this with my daughters who are both on different slimming diets, different to mine and each other that is, and they said “You’re putting your body into starvation mode…” and “You need 2,000 calories per day etc… “. That’s all very well, and they may be correct but, and this is a *huge* but (no pun intended), in that the aftermath of the operation will reduce my stomach to such a size that the capacity for food will be reduced to approximately ¼ cup. That being the case, there is no way in hell I could get anywhere *near* 2,000 calories per day into my stomach, which is why the weight falls off so rapidly, and why I’m constantly questioning why my weight isn’t decreasing while I’m already on such a restricted diet! Even a constant slow decline would give me some certainty I’m following the right path.
Ok, I accept I may still be in the plateau zone of the first few weeks of dieting, but the graph in the previous post shows that even tho the weight loss won’t be dramatic for the first 3- 6 weeks, I should still see a noticeable decline, albeit a small one, but I’m not! As I said in the last post, I am supposed to have lost my minimum ten kilos by the end of August and at this rate, I’ll still be a long way off.
Having said that, I can’t see how I can do anything ‘new’ to help the process along, so I’m just going to have to sit tight and wait it out until I see some movement. Whatever I do this will be a long process so I may as well just suck it up, put my big boy pants on (literally!) and shut the hell up 😀
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