About two weeks ago I thought to step on the scale. What a mistake! There's a reason I don't do that very often. I was horrified to discover that not only have those extra ten pounds leftover from Atom's pregnancy (he's turning 5 in a few weeks!) still not magically disappeared, I'd gained about 8 more pounds to go with them. I was chagrined. Worrying about my weight is a new (unpleasant) sensation. (All of you that have struggled with it forever--don't hate me! I bet you haven't had teenage acne for 30+ years. And I bet your hair wasn't the inspiration for the phrase "bed head"--mine looks like bed head all day every day even after spending an hour daily trying to tame it. And I bet...oh, I could go on and on but I digress... We all have our things. I'm just saying...) I have always said that I don't deserve to be thin, I just got lucky in the metabolism department and someday, in my old age, it would slow down and I would be in trouble. So it seems that I am getting old and my prediction is coming true. "I have to make a plan," I thought, "a plan to lose weight before this gets out of control." Turns out that I didn't need to worry. A solution presented itself unexpectedly. It's the crash diet--literally. It works like this:
1. Your daughter is involved in a traumatic bus accident.
2. You find that your mind is on so many other things that you keep forgetting to eat.
3. When you realize you haven't eaten all day because you are getting lightheaded and lethargic, you choke some little bit of food down to keep you going because you have absolutely no appetite.
4. What little bit you eat sits there and feels funny in your churning stomach so you have no desire to eat more.
Presto. Eight pounds gone in a week. I'm afraid this is one of those diets where you gain it right back, though. Because on Sunday things finally started looking good to eat again. I might have to do something radical like eat healthier and exercise regularly.
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An alternative, less scary, diet is the MTI diet. You commit to participate in a Music Theatre of Idaho production, and in the week leading up to opening night you have no time to eat and are running around all the time trying to get things done. It's usually good for losing 5 pounds or so.
That sounds a lot more fun and a lot less scary than the crash diet!
I feel your pain. Having to think about not gaining weight is so new to me. I don't like it one bit. Of course I didn't like being super skinny either. Maybe I'm just hard to please.
Funny...but not really! I'm sorry you've been so stressed, but I guess there's always a silver lining in the clouds. I have to be more careful about my weight now, too. Hey...maybe we're twins!
boo, hoo to all you skinny people! 8 pounds, ten pounds...try 50 pounds! I would have gained another ten if I had been through what you went through since I am emotional eater! hang in there! I need to exercise instead of eat for stress!
I don't want to hear about it, Rachelle! You have naturally curly hair. :) I usually am an emotional eater--I think that's how I gained the 8 pounds in the first place. So it was kinda nice to have this stress cause me to lose my appetite!
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