151.4 Cupcakes and Maple Bars

I ate a little bit of dessert at all three meals yesterday and still lost .6 pounds. We walked to church because the roads were icy and it was only a mile. Some nice folks insisted on giving us a ride home, and so I had time to motor over to our other church and attend a baby shower.

The first church always has donuts out, and I walked there so I felt I had earned a maple bar. There were cupcakes at the baby shower. I resisted until the very end when a well-meaning lady asked didn't I get any of the treats and brought me one for myself and one to take home to Scott. Mine was yellow with lemon filling. Scott's was chocolate with raspberry filling.

In the late afternoon we walked the dogs another half mile in the ice and snow. After dinner, Scott gave me the raspberry filling portion of his cupcake. He didn't like the filling.

Here is everything I ate yesterday and still lost .6 pounds:

Small bowl of Special K, blueberries and vanilla soy milk
Raw carrot sticks and 2 tablespoons Parmesan spinach dip
Maple bar
Lemon cupcake
Baked chicken, onions and carrots
Raspberry filling from a chocolate cupcake

If you told me a year ago I could eat like this and still lose weight I would not have believed you!

161.4 Diet Day 11 of 14

I lost 1.2 pounds yesterday! That is more like it! I now weigh 161.4. I walked twice yesterday, one mile in the morning and one mile in the afternoon. It looks like walking twice a day is more effective than walking two miles in the afternoon, so on days I don't teach that is how I will walk now.


This picture is my 1989 graduation from UC Berkeley. I was not weighing myself at the time, but I was a size 8.



Unfortunately, in my twenties I controlled my weight largely by smoking instead of eating. I really am learning for the first time how much I can eat and maintain my weight without gaining, let alone lose weight.



I quit smoking in 1995, a year after I got married. Like losing weight, quitting smoking was relatively easy to do once I made up my mind to do it. However, I substituted eating for smoking back then, and that is when the weight started to pile on.



Weight started to pile on me even faster in 1998 when I left teaching and got a desk job at Farmers Insurance. I was on salary and forced to work 70 to 80 hours per week, just to keep my job. I had no time for a personal life, let alone exercise. Eating was my comfort, sitting at my desk all that time. Losing that job in 2007 was devastating at the time, but now I am glad I woke up from that desk job trance. I only regret it took me until 2011 to realize I needed to lose the extra 100 pounds that had piled on while I did that desk job.



I walked two miles yesterday. Here is what I ate and still lost 1.2 pounds:



3/4 cup Special K, 3/4 cup strawberries, 3/4 cup soy milk

1/4 cup ham, 1 cup steamed broccoli and cauliflower

3/4 cup baked chicken, 1 cup baked onions and carrots