It's been a while since I last reported our progress but we are making progress. Just thought I should say that so you didn't think we were slacking or something. My wife is looking good and she thinks I'm still as cute as I used to be. Not sure what that means but I keep telling her kittens and puppy dogs are cute. Men are "dashing" or "handsome", not cute. Then she says, "you are so cute when you say that." What's a man to do?
You see this picture of watermelon? Do you know what this means? No, I'm sure your computer is working just fine. It means it is watermelon season and we can start eating watermelon more now. I think I told you in another blog that I tried the watermelon diet and lost 25 pounds in one summer. Well, I have about 15 pounds to go to reach my goal of 190 and I am seriously looking at this watermelon thing as a way to help me get there. Now, understand that I am not going to stop my eating plan to do this or change anything about my diet. I am going to try to utilize the power of this delicious fruit (veggie?) for it's benefits of helping to curb my hunger pangs at night. There is only one problem with this plan and that is the multiple trips to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
Just so you know we have pretty much stayed on track with the Page Diet eating plan and utilize no other supplements than the regular herbs and vitamins we normally take. We will occasionally have something that is not specific to the diet but we know that when we do that we will most likely be postponing the inevitable guilt of the bathroom scale. It does seem that a couple pound up on the scale after a day of not sticking to the plan does come off again in a couple of days being on the plan.
Here is an interesting item I found out. From time to time I am not in the least bit hungry. Sometimes for most of the day. Yesterday I just snacked on veggies all day and then had a small portion at supper. (4oz grilled chicken, quinoa salad and broccoli) I lost 2 pounds and weighed in at 205 this morning. Tara was the same. Not 205, just not hungry most of the day. She is maintaining about 135 but that will change a little. So why is that?
I think it's because our bodies are getting used to the eating plan we are on and not craving the starches, sugars and other processed "gotchas" we have been used to for so long. I believe our bodies know what they need and certain cravings come because our bodies are telling us they need something in that food substance we are craving. My body has these unusual craving for a certain snack food. I bet you can't guess what that is.
So we are getting closer to our weight goals and feeling so much better about bodies feeling so much better. That sounded kind of strange but that is how it works folks. The only thing we are lax on right now is the exercise. With the temperatures as hot as they have been we are reluctant to get outside and suffer heat stroke but I know we are going to have to do something.
Don't laugh but I used to exercise to an old VHS tape that Tara had called "Abs of Steel" or something like that. It was a "vigorous" and I mean "vigorous" grueling workout tape that did get me in shape physically. I can't say that the cats liked it when I was jumping around in the living room but it worked. I wonder where I put that tape?
