151.2 The Cookie Diet?

I lost .6 pounds yesterday eating cookies and Pop Tarts. It is almost frightening. Once I reach my goal, am I going to have trouble keeping my weight up? I was only trying to maintain, not to lose.

Thank God, the weather finally has turned and is in the 40s with rain instead of the 30s with snow. I no longer feel cold all the time or have chills from being thin.

I am losing weight on this indulgent keep trim eating, though, so I figure why not continue with it. I mentioned before that in the 1970s I had heard of The Cookie Diet. I never went on it or looked into what it consisted of, but it seems that now I am on it, heh!

We walked the dogs two miles yesterday. I made peanut butter cookies. Here is a picture of a few of them.

Here is all I ate yesterday and lost .6 pounds:

Small bowl of Special K, blueberries and vanilla soy milk
2 Brown sugar cinnamon Pop Tarts
Baked chicken, onion and carrots
4 Hershey Drops
Leftover chicken, onion and carrots
6 homemade peanut butter cookies

Well, I just looked up how the real cookie diets work, and I am not on one of them! They make "cookies" out of meals. They manufacture cookies that are really made of stuff that is good for you. You just grab one of their cookies whenever you feel hungry, instead of having to plan a meal. I am eating real cookies, and still losing weight. My way is better, Sanford Siegal! (Well, OK, Dr Tarnower's way is better.)

151.8 Losing Weight Getting Easier

Explain to me how I am still losing weight! I ate bacon and bacon grease yesterday, as well as a Pop Tart and a full serving of Hershey's Drops. I lost .4 pounds! I am not complaining, but I wish it had always been this easy to lose weight! Here I am on keep trim eating, taking it easy until the weather warms up, and losing weight almost without effort!

In total, I have lost 88.2 pounds. I started at 240 in May of 2011.

I can see now that the hard part will be when I am out of weight to lose and I need to maintain exactly. Good thing there is a 5 pound leeway built into my plan. My goal is 145 so that even if I am over a bit I should weigh in at under 150. I am getting so close to my weight loss goal!

Here I am showing yet another ladies size medium shirt that I loved, last time we went shopping. If it weren't winter with the threat of icy roads I would probably be out trying on clothes all day and all night whenever I didn't work, heh!

We walked the dogs two miles in the park yesterday.

Here is everything I ate and still lost .4 pounds:

Small bowl of Special K, blueberries and vanilla soy milk
1 Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pop Tart
Half a piece of bacon
Eggs scrambled in bacon grease with fried onion, red bell pepper and mushrooms
Baked chicken, onion and carrots
15 Hershey's Drops

157.2

I taught in the fawn corduroys and Mom's hand-me-down powder blue sweater yesterday. It was an effective outfit. The sweater made me look like enough of an adult that the cords were not a problem, heh!

We walked the dogs two miles in the park yesterday. I had been on my feet most of the day at school -- and my ankles were not sore! It is much easier for my ankles to support 157.2 pounds all day than it was for them to support 240 pounds all day. Part of me is angry that I didn't do this years ago. Most of me is thankful that I finally am losing weight.

I really don't know why I didn't lose any weight yesterday. I did cheat a little. I ate two Hershey's Drops after dinner, for a total of 16 calories. I don't think that could have sabotaged my whole day?

Here is all I ate yesterday, and stayed on a weight loss plateau:

Small bowl of Special K, blueberries and soy milk
Cup of raw carrot sticks and two tablespoons of Parmesan spinach dip
3 eggs scrambled with garlic salt, ham, red pepper and mushrooms -- no fat used in preparation
2 Hershey's Drops

159.8 Keep Trim Day 1 of 13

I'm in the 150s! I weigh 159.8 now after losing a pound yesterday. We walked the dogs two miles in the morning, but didn't walk in the afternoon yesterday.

I confess I don't really measure my breakfast portions with cups. I have reduced my breakfast down to one handful of Special K topped with three culled palmfuls of blueberries and enough soy milk to moisten the cereal, as in the photo to the left. When I was using the larger cereal bowl it had grown to almost twice this much, and I was not losing weight as quickly.

By culled palm-fulls of blueberries, I mean I scoop up just enough blueberries that I can examine them for spoiled ones and stems while they sit in my palm. Isn't the bowl cute? My sister's friend made them several years ago and my sister gave me two for Christmas.

I shopped at The Salvation Army Thrift Store yesterday. Guess what? I am now a tight size 10! I bought two pairs of warm size 10 corduroy pants. I have been wearing size 12 black corduroys lately, so I was glad that the two pairs out of 30 that I tried on that fit me best were a rust color and a fawn color. I will continue to wear the size 12 clothes until the 10s are a little more comfortable. I just wanted to have the size 10 corduroys on hand for when that happens! The fawn pair are actually a men's size 32 x 32.

Here is what I ate yesterday and lost a pound along with walking two miles in the morning:

Small bowl of Special K, blueberries and soy milk
Salmon patty, steamed broccoli and cauliflower
Baked chicken, onion and carrots

***Edited later to add these links to other days I lost a lot of weight on my diet:

• lost a pound (18)
• lost 1.2 pounds (5)
• lost 1.3 pounds (2)
• lost 1.4 pounds (18)
• Lost 1.6 pounds (10)
• lost 1.8 pounds (3)
• lost 2 pounds (4)
• lost 2.2 pounds (2)
• lost 2.6 pounds (4)
• lost 2.8 pounds (3)
• lost 3.2 pounds (1)

Also see my post on suggested ways to use my blog to lose weight yourself.

A Note on Blueberries and Dieting

Blueberries are a tasty fruit without being high in calories. Strawberries are another low calorie fruit. Most berries are good low calorie fruit choices. Other fruits, not so much. Consult one of the many online fruit calorie counters if you are in doubt, but most fruits are very sugary, especially melons like honeydew. Bananas are especially fatty (but a banana is still a better snack choice than Ritz Crackers).

The Scarsdale Medical Diet includes lunch any day you want of fruit salad with half a cup of non-fat cottage cheese and six walnut halves. I have read many comments from sad dieters who say this lunch ruined their weight loss for any day they had it.

My advice is to stick to berries as your fruit when on the diet, and to go easy on the other fruits when on keep trim eating. I say go easy, but don't give up fruit. It is very good for you and can work on keep trim eating. I ate two sliced apples candied with two tablespoons of peanut butter and a handful of semi sweet chocolate chips for lunch yesterday and still lost half a pound on keep trim eating.