Listening to a podcast this morning at the airport talking about health/weight loss. They were talking about how most obese people will lose a significant amount of weight in their lifetime.
The problem for most people isn't losing the weight, it's finding out how to keep it off. Most people when they are losing weight view the process as a "diet", meaning a temporary change to achieve a result. Weight regain statistics: 50-75% of obese people will regain what they lost in one year. When you go out 2 years that gets closer to 85%, and at 3 years 90%+ have regained all their weight (if not more).
If your diet has an end point, and you stop doing the things you did in order to lose the weight you will regain the weight. It is hard enough to lose weight but it's even harder to keep dragging those old habits (or often times people) with you. That can be a really hard change to make, and can come with a grieving process. It isn't just about swapping out food, it is often about changing how we spend our time each day, how we handle stress, how we prioritize things, and who we spend time time with!
The 5% of people studied who lost weight and kept it off didn't follow the same diet (you have to find the diet that you can stick to). However they all followed some kind of restriction (calories, or carbs, or time restriction etc), they exercised, they self monitored (weighed/measured occasionally), but surprisingly almost every single person in this study stated that in order to keep the weight off they had to form a new identity.
This has been a huge part of my journey, figuring out who I am now. Who is the healthy person I am now? What are her habits? What is the lifestyle she lifestyle she lives compared to the old obese person I once was?
Do you feel this is accurate? What is something that is a new habit or a new part of your identity that your old unhealthy self would never have imagined? Or on the opposite side are there habits or things that are dragging you back into the unhealthy lifestyle and preventing you from keeping consistent?
That might be a little heavy for a Tuesday morning but it definitely had me doing some reflection this morning as I walked around the airport for an hour (when old me would have sat the entire time right by my gate). 🤔🤔
Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.
What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?
Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.
For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...
Happy Saturday! I hope you are all doing well. I know some people in the group have had some recent tough news for themselves or family members. It really puts the day to day issues we face into perspective, and reminds me to just focus on doing the best I can to be as healthy as possible. To those who are having a hard time, we are all here for you and sending you some prayers and support. 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Just focus today on doing the best you can and remember that food isn't going to bring you the comfort you are looking for.
Here is a little video of Penelopes performance from her piano recital l last night, she's been taking lessons for about a year and a half. 🎹🤍🖤
*Livestream Monday night at 4pm pst/7pm est
Happy Friday! I made it back from Calgary with no issues yesterday, I even got an earlier connection so I got home earlier than planned. I didn't get much sleep on this trip so definitely early to bed the next few nights to make up for it. My vertigo was a a lot better the last few days also, so I think those exercises I was doing helped. Thank you for your prayers.
How has your week been? Any temptations this weekend that you are nervous about?
Happy Friday Evening! I’m losing weight again! It took a significant decrease in calories to get moving again but I’m happy and not starving. New lowest weight recorded of 146.9!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
If I can ask for some prayers and good juju I’m going to look at two houses tonight. Fingers crossed!! I’m so tired of renting 😤
Last weekend we had a young elk buck hanging outside our cabin. It was amazing being so close to such a huge wild animal. Ironically a buddy of mine shot an elk this week and brought me a bunch of meat for my freezer. Full circle. I've never been much of a fan of game meat due to the gamey flavor. I think the ground meat and sausage will be fine but there's also a chuck roast.
What tips do any of you have for preparing it? Are you a fan of deer/elk?
