Weight: 169
I’m glad to see that my weight changed by only .5 pounds from yesterday. While I was out running errands, I stopped to eat lunch at a deli. I chose their baked chicken breast and a broccoli salad which had who-knows-what kind of carbs!
While protocol says not to have carbs during this lock-in phase, I have definitely had them, and not just the hidden ones, as in the broccoli salad. So, I’ve felt really lucky that my weight hasn’t been all over the place!
An interesting observation that I had yesterday during my day, is that I got noticed three different times by men. I’ve been married for 12 years to a wonderful husband, and I have not really had other men pay attention to me, nor have I wanted them to. I may need to figure out how to handle that sort of attention now; I wasn’t prepared for that!
One encounter especially stuck with me during the day. A gentleman struck up a conversation while waiting for our coffee drinks to be made, and I said I like mine “plain” without all the extra flavorings, to keep my sugar intake down. He was a thin man and was dumping a bunch of sugar in his coffee as I made that comment, and he said something to the effect of “I need the sugar”, to which I replied “yes, but you are thin”. He looked straight at me and said “but so are you!”.
My initial reaction was to deny this assertion, but I didn’t because I had commented on this sort of denial the other day in my blog; I have become consciously aware that what other people see is not what I feel, or even know about my own body. So, this was good “practice” in not denying the “new” fact of my being thin, but I did mumble something about “I’m still losing”. So, I still have a ways to go in becoming comfortable with the “new me”.
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