Getting My Mind Right: The Next Phaseby Fatherofeight | More from this Blogger 15 Feb 2007 09:00 AM I am now very near the end of the diet that I have been on since late May of last year. I am not at my original goal of weighing less than 180 pounds, I weigh 190. But, I have achieved all of my other goals and I am starting to wonder if I need for my weight to go that low. At my monthly appointment with my doctor, he noted that my face was starting to look gaunt. My wife echoed his comments. Her thoughts were that I am in great physical shape, my health problems have been alleviated, and maybe the weight charts are not that relevant at my age. I am within five pounds of what I weighed when I was running marathons in my early thirties. I have accomplished a lot since I started to lose weight. My present lifestyle allows me to wear blue jeans almost all of the time. I have gone from wearing a loose fit size 44 waist to a regular fit size 36. I have gone from wearing a size XL-XXL shirt to wearing a large. I just bought a new suit and the jacket was a 43, I was wearing a tight 48-50 before. This measurement is really good considering that my chest is now really well developed due to the fact that I have been swimming a lot. I am not looking back; I am burning my bridges clothes wise. I have taken every pair of blue jeans and all shirts to Goodwill the moment that I outgrow them. Please pardon me for boasting, but I am not finished. I am off of blood pressure medicine; it checked 114/74 at my doctor's office. Before the diet, I had suffered from lower back sacroiliac pain on a daily basis. The pain is gone. I am much more agile. I recently played racquetball for 45 minutes with my very athletic 29 year old son. He beat me in every game, but he was still sore from the "workout" that I gave him several days later. I am still swimming laps. I have pulled back from the workouts that I was doing, but I am swimming a minimum of 1000 yards four days a week. I can wear a Speedo racing suit and no one laughs. The day that I have dreaded since I started the diet is coming rather quickly. You see, I have lost weight before. In my opinion, it is a very easy task to lose weight. The real tough job is keeping the weight off. Diet fads are popular because they report how much weight is lost. They try to avoid following people for a year or two after they finish the diet. It is going to help me writing this series on Thursdays because it will require me to be accountable to my readers. I have bragged about the easy part, losing the weight. Let's see how I do now! Relevantweight loss tags christmas | weight loss | Kids | children | baby | Coupons | holidays | pregnancy | Food | Scrapbooking User Comments Crickett (272) 15 Feb 2007 12:26 PMI misread the comment "burning my bridges clotheswise" to read "burning my britches". Either way you are getting rid of the clothes!!  Fatherofeight (2475) 15 Feb 2007 07:58 PMNot burning them, giving them to Goodwill. In the past, I saved my fat clothes, just in case, not this time, Thanks, Crickett Fatherofeight (2475) 17 Feb 2007 06:19 AMI heard John Madden, the famous football coach and now announcer, say that he had three sets of clothes, the normal clothes, the fat clothes, and the "give up" clothes. That is funny, but a lot of people do it. Keeping the "fat" clothes is admitting that it is a matter of time until you give up again. Thanks for your comment Julie.  Lashell Hoover (470) 17 Feb 2007 10:31 AMYou've given some great advice. I also give my clothes away as I lose weight. I think you're going to keep the weight off. You sound like you're going to do it. Fatherofeight (2475) 17 Feb 2007 12:32 PMI hope so, I have tried to maintain this week with mixed results. It is definitely easier for me to diet than to maintain. Thanks for you encouragement, Lashell.  Jeff Bogle (1022) 17 Feb 2007 08:56 PMI am with you Ed. Dropping the lbs is goal and result oriented and thus easier to focus on, work towards and achieve. Sustaining over a long period of time (a lifetime, ideally) the activity, eating habits, etc. that provided the success is the harder part for me as well. I think because what you are trying to do is less concrete and excitable - not as much fun or momentum in seeing the same weight on the scale (even though that IS the new goal) as seeing the number a bit lower than last time during the weight loss phase! We are here for you Ed. Just hope y'all will be there for me over the next...well, rest of my life! Fatherofeight (2475) 18 Feb 2007 07:25 AMExactly, Thanks Jeff. Right now it seems like I can gain a couple of pounds if I think about eating. We are all in this together. PATTI (580) 20 Feb 2007 11:59 AMDear Ed. Keep writing those articles about weight. I too, have lost 78 lbs. I still have about 50 pounds to go. It has been harder for me to stick to living healthy with diet and exercise. I pray for your success. PATTI Fatherofeight (2475) 21 Feb 2007 07:29 PMGo get'em girl. You may want to look at the weight loss blogs, Patti. There are regular bloggers there and also some of us are doing a little guest blogging, so it has a lot of information. Somebody may suggest something that gives you the spark to get the rest of the weight off. Good luck. Community Tags back pain is gone, easy to lose weight, lost 80 pounds, swimming a lot, trying to maintain my weight Discuss this article
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