What to write, what to write. Well, despite two more holiday celebrations (a Christmas dinner I prepared on the weekend, and a work holiday party tonight) I have stayed on track! I have still not eaten anything I'm not supposed to. At tonight's holiday dinner, I was only able to eat the turkey. I had about 5 helpings and am feeling incredibly tired as I write this. Damn you tryptophan!
At my weekend Christmas dinner, I managed to go a whole night without drinking any alcohol beverages and did not indulge in any of the Tiramisu Mousse I served for dessert. THIS IS NOT EASY! I'm finally going to come clean and admit that this limited eating thing sucks! As much as I loathe depriving myself of whatever I want to eat, I hate being unhealthy more. That is really what keeps me on the straight and narrow.
I have, by accident, taken myself off of my blood pressure medications. By accident, I mean that my prescriptions ran out and I'm too busy to go back to my doctor to get them renewed. However, Dr. Stephen took my blood pressure on Thursday and it is in high normal range. Meaning, if I keep losing weight, it should get in the normal, normal range. This is exciting to me. I really did not want to be on the medication anymore. So that continues to be a huge motivator to me as well.
Since people in my everyday life have begun to notice that I am losing weight and have been commenting to me about my weight-loss, I feel like I can't let them down by falling off the wagon EVER. I have many people in my life that are cheering me on. They treat me like I'm the resident expert on weight-loss. When I think about it, I am an expert on weight-loss. My entire adult life has involved me doing some sort of weight loss program at least once a year. That's a lot of knowledge to collect over 20+ years. It's funny how until you are ready to face your demons, regardless of what you know you need to do, you just won't do it until you are ready. I'm done wasting time and ready to live my life. Now I must go and relieve myself from my turkey hang-over! Goodnight:)