Eating More Healthy...or trying....

Since around the end of February, I have been more seriously trying to lose weight.  I increased my weight to what I weighed before I gave birth to my youngest ..Shane! I could not..no matter how hard I thought I was trying, which included walking, lose more than a few pounds ..then, my feet began to act up, so I threw in the towel and just kind of watched my intake, but not that much..I was disheartened to say the least.

It has more to do with not wanting to increase..trying to watch out for surgeries in the future that I hope not to have and just honestly not wanting to feel like a glutton.  When I realized I weighed several more pounds than the other three in this home..including Jack, who is several inches taller than Danny.  Okay, so he did have major major million dollar heart surgery...so yet ANOTHER reason to try to get my weight down..after all I am going to be 65.

Anyway, so a couple of pounds came off but once again I was frustrated.  So, Danny has been on something called Plexus..pink drink.  He drinks it everyday with or before a meal and it has helped keep his numbers soooo low with the diabetes, that he almost looks like he doesn't have it and takes no meds for it now! It has been successful for him for about two years now, I think.  It wards off the appetite to and its an all natural mixture.  You just add it to a tall glass of water.  So, finally, I decided to try it.  

For a couple of weeks, I prepared though.  I began to eat a piece of Killer Dave's bread toasted with an egg or two and MAYBE a slice of bacon, each morning.  After another week, I began to see how long I could go and maybe skip lunch with maybe a piece of fruit around 3-4.  THEN, after I was successful at that and not feeling deprived I also added trying NOT to have seconds at dinner and if possible foregoing them altogether.  I began to lose a bit more.  Had barely been walking, but starting to add that, as well.

I then began to add the pink drink.  I usually get up..black coffee and read and pray a bit.  I get ready for Mass..we are so blessed to live literally 2 minutes from garage to church parking lot now! :)  After Mass, I go home if nothing else is going on and I drink the mixture. About and hour later (because I have still not felt real hunger) I eat what I mentioned above for breakfast...maybe some kefir (probiotic) with it.  I feel so full and then I am not usually even hungry till about 3-4 for that fruit and then a very reasonable dinner most every night..very little seconds.  I hardly touch bread except in the morning and I have cut the size of my meat portions way back.  I drink lots of water because I needed to learn to do that after my diverticulits bout.  I am also taking a good multivitamin and another probiotic..oh the pink drink is a prebiotic..I understand we need both and when we get older we don't have great working enzymes which also helps our digestion work well.  So, with all that, I have now lost 13 1/2 lbs., approx and feel pretty darn good and really thankful.  The last week has been slower, but that is just fine...just to see regular loss or maintenance even for days..is wonderful.  I really would like to lose only about 20 more lbs. but I would still like to stay on a diet like this mostly..I feel like I eat like a lady.  
The pic above was about the time I began this little journey in a more hopeful determined way.