F(63) all time high weight was 252 just before the pandemic. Time at home during COVID helped me reset some (but not all)eating habits and I got down to about 230 by 2023. In 2023, I started experimenting with intermittent fasting and found that I could usually push breakfast to 10 am and just eat a “light”breakfast because I knew lunch would be between 12-1. Also easily stopped eating by 7 pm which kept me from snacking along with my husband in the evening (I wasn’t a big evening snacker to begin with). Lost another 6-8 lbs. Retired from a high stress academic job in 2024. Had total knee replacement in March 25. Started exercising more…although I had been doing water aerobics for years while waiting to retire and do the knee. Late July last year, my new PCP did an A1C when we discovered that despite my obesity, no one had ever done one—I had been seeing physicians in same practice for 20 years! MyA1C was 5.7. Time to get serious about weight loss.started using the LoseIt App and increasing frequency and intensity of workouts as knee improved.
Husband found out he had high blood pressure in Nov after a TIA (at age 60) so has joined me in carefully logging food and macros and exercising more. He needs low cholesterol and low sodium while I needed low carb so finding the right balance has been like Jack Sprat and his wife from the nursery rhyme.
By Feb I was down to 193 and A1C was 5.3! Today I weighed in at 186 (at home, PCP visit isn’t until early Aug)! This is after a rocky June/July. My elderly mother had a stroke (4th in 4 years) on June 10. I spent 10 days helping my dad manage her care while she was in hospital and then moved to skilled nursing. Meals were very erratic and not always healthy. No exercise. Then went home just in time to leave for a 10 day family vacation that included a wedding! Came home and found I’d actually lost another pound! Husband and I have developed some good eating habits that we worked to maintain while traveling. One is nonfat yogurt with fruit for breakfast, we just bought some when we got to our destination. Another is hummus and veggies for lunch, sometimes as a wrap in lavash bread, sometimes just as a dip. Part of our time was in a bed and breakfast and our host fed us VERY well for breakfast so those days we sometimes just didn’t have lunch until 2-3 pm and no dinner. Being 2 hrs behind our home time zone helped there, we never really adjusted our sleep schedule too much, so 2-3 pm seemed like dinner time. We also split entrees when feasible. We just don’t eat as much now as we used to.
Recently friends in my water aerobics class have been commenting on weight loss and when I look at trip photos of myself in leggings or exercise shorts I m not embarrassed to share them! I even proudly show off my knee scar! I recently found some pics from 2019 and I’m horrified at how big I let myself get…stress eating no exercise nearly killed me!j
I’m down from size 22w pants in 2022 to regular 18! Bra size is way down also!
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