She lost thirty-eight pounds, and I have lost forty-five.
I had a much more ambitious goal of losing sixty-three pounds. I still have the notion that I would still like to reach one hundred and fifty pounds, which would put me at my weight when I married my beautiful wife eighteen years (and two children) ago.
I was by no means as fat as this image suggests. But I felt that obese. I am surprised now my how slim my waistline is, again. And I am jealous of maintaining what I have regained. What I lost during the ten years when I gained forty-five pounds was of my self-image: I had always been relatively thin -- my family tree is laden with thin people. My father was, before growing old and shrinking, a five-foot-eleven-inch tall man, who weight all of one hundred and thirty-eight pounds. My mother was five foot six and only ninety-eight pounds.
Of all members of my immediate family, I was the heaviest at one hundred and forty pounds when I was fourteen, one hundred and thirty pounds when a senior in high school, and one hundred and fifty when I graduated from college. I stayed at one-fifty until I was in my forties.
So I welcome my old self back, and I eschew bread and rice and potatoes and other pound-inducing carbohydrates, eating instead lots of carrots, and bushels of green beans, and entire vines of tomatoes and brussel sprouts. The Jenny diet helped me a lot, and I visit my consultant weekly still -- I renew the annual membership and I am intent upon two goals:
1. To eventually reach one fifty again, within the year
2. To never exceed one sixty five, my current weight.
I see the Jenny folks in three hours -- looking forward to it!
If you want to lose weight and reclaim your lost person, then visit any of the weight-loss programs online. Jenny is only one, and the food is only so so. The same is true of Weight Watchers. But they will TEACH you how to eat less. That is the big deal and why I continue and will continue to stay on this program.
