Incredible

[fpb]

Now, as my friends may have heard, I am fat. And I mean really quite fat. FAT. Fat as in "my stomach enters the room ahead of me" fat. Sidney Greenstreet fat. Orson Welles fat.

However, in the last few months I had begun to steadily lose weight by the simple expedient of only eating while I was hungry. I will not tell you how much my top weight was - I am a bit sensitive about it still - but I will tell you that I shed five kilos in three months, and that in spite of the huge frustrations I suffered last year. (My eating is mostly a reaction to frustration.)

Then came the Christmas season. A Christmas season in Italy. Visiting friends and relatives nearly every day, and being visited, and on each occasion a special meal. And on every occasion so damned good it would have been a sin to refuse it. I was relieved that, during these three weeks, I had no access to scales.

Now I have come back. And I found my scales waiting for me. I ignored them for a while, but I got a feeling that they were grinning at me.

So I clenched my teeth. Ready for a humiliating experience, I stepped on them.

And I found that I was nearly a kilo lower than my lowest estimate last year.

Comments

[mathiasroesel.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's awesome. Cordial congrats!

[cjmr.livejournal.com]

Apparently real Italian food is the right balance for your metabolism!

Congrats on the continued weight loss.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Hurray for you!

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! :)

[lyssiae.livejournal.com]

I wish I could do that!!!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Way to go!

[patchworkmind.livejournal.com]

Bravo! :D

[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[filialucis]

W00t! Congratulations!

I'd like to try the same strategy. But I suspect that if I only ate when I was hungry, I wouldn't be eating at all except every other day, which would be impractical for social reasons if nothing else. :)

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

Congratulations - I'm told less strss does wonderful things to a body. Keep up the good work!

[tashmania.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* It seems that good Italian food does the same thing to you as good Indian food does to me. Congratulations! :)

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

Less stress and more contentment are great for the body. Here's to more of that in the future!

[prylliepwns.livejournal.com]

Quello è meraviglioso! Congratulazioni!

How do you like my paltry attempt at Italian? :o)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

I like it well. No mistakes.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

(Although Questo in place of Quello would have been more idiomatic.)

[guarani]

Been there (or should I say... I'm still there :S) and slowly progressing toward my ideal weight. I hope to reach it over the next 12 months or so. Keep it up.