I'm traveling again with no access to a scale but I think I hit another milestone, 23 lbs lost. I thought I would be ecstatic when I reached this goal but instead I'm focused on how much more I have to lose! I'm feeling much more comfortable in my body now -- can curl up on a chair without my tummy getting in the way, for example.
I'm starting to get some blowback from my boyfriend, who thinks I'm being too strict with my diet (no refined sugar/flour and Fast5) and losing too much weight. I think he's wrong, of course, but I'll get a personal trainer friend to calculate my body fat percentage just in case. I believe a normal range is 18-25% bodyfat for women. My BMI is 22.3; I'd like it to be 20-ish, for which I'll have to drop another 10 or 15 lbs.
Slow and steady...
I'm on a high-stress business trip now and I am amazed by how much my colleagues eat. I informed everyone at the beginning of the trip that I don't eat lunch, which is a blessing as we're spending an unfortunate number of meals at crappy midwestern buffets. Seeing plate after plate piled to the angle of repose with chunks of meat and fried things is enough to make food abstinence seem positively attractive! And the places are full of fat people. I wish they could have the same experience I'm having of feeling clean and empty and calm.
In my last post I mentioned some social aspects of being thinner that are new to me. Another distasteful issue is men staring. It's not much of an issue in the well-educated, liberal north-eastern city where I live but in the midwest and the south it's a problem. These yokels never learned about how long you can appropriately look at a woman before it becomes offensive. Sometimes I'll catch their eye and give a nasty look but, given that they don't seem to think women are sentient, I don't imagine they really care what I think. It makes me so glad to be surrounded in my regular life by men who treat women like the human beings we are.
Good luck to everyone out there trying this! How are your experiences going?
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I can totally relate. Creepy men staring is something that I forgot about when I was off their radar. And the undermining thing as well, luckily I have been following Fast 5 since January now and so most of the people in my life are just used to it.
ReplyDeleteOnce you start to see results and they see how energetic and healthy you become, they have no ground to stand on telling you it is not good for you. Even my doctor is impressed and thinks what I am doing is just fine. Being overweight is what is really unhealthy, much more unhealthy than just taking a break from eating now and then.
Keep it up and only do what works best for you and ignore everyone else's opinion!
Hi Jenna! You're right, we're on a good path and we just need to stay on it.
ReplyDeleteRe: sabotage, I'm in a part of the country with a LOT of overweight people. I can feel the dagger stares of women thinking, "skinny bitch!" The funny part is that I recognize the look because, in my hometown, I'm the one giving it. It's making me think about how I am just as guilty of that sort of catty behavior, I've just always been on the other side.
Good luck and thanks!
How disappointing. I was so interested in your progress and how great the F5 plan works for you. Why would you insult men in the south, or an entire region of the US? I travel for work too, and I've met as many uneducated distasteful "yokels" in the northeast as I have everywhere else in the country. Men are men, has nothing to do with their geography. But bravo on your success, it's very motivating to me.
ReplyDeleteHi Cheryl,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment and for calling me out -- you're right, I was being uncharitable in denigrating a region. I had just had a few very distasteful experiences in the deep South, and I have never been treated like that anywhere else in the States. In the end though it was the fault of the individuals.
I hope fast-5 is going well for you too!