After Two Weeks in the FAT To Skinny Lifestyle... What A Difference!!!

[mouseissue]

Hi Umpa!.

I just noticed your query as to my 08/01 launch of the FTS lifestyle on the "Recipe Exchange" board.
Sorry I did not respond sooner, but I just learned how to get email notifies on replies to my posts.

Due to some family stuff that went on around here, the launch was delayed to 08/06/2010.
I weighed 315.6 pounds the day I started.
As of today, I've been living the FTS lifestyle now for 15 days.

There was a five day plateau from 08/14 thru 08/18 where I stalled at 307 pounds.
But I attribute that to previously having weighed 307 pounds for several months.
Being at that weight for so long created a "set point" (or "body memory") in my system.
However, staying true to the FTS lifestyle did win out and weight loss did resume.

I'm confident I will run into more "set point" plateaus along the way.
I will beat every one by staying committed to the FTS lifestyle.
FAT cannot withstand FTS!!!

Since I started, I have lost 9.8 pounds and weigh 305.8 pounds today!
So far, this works out to about 5 pounds per week.
I expect my weight loss rate will slow down several times before I reach my goal.
But that's ok.
I know the pounds I've carried the longest are going to be the slowest to lose due to "body memory".

Cravings for the high-carb foods I once loved, have almost completely disappeared!
And today, although they still "look" good (and are still around the house), I can say "No Thanks!" to them without any feeling of deprivation.

When I feel feelings of "hunger" or "craving", my system no longer "sounds alarms" to run to the kitchen and scarf up high-carb junk.  I now can comfortably evaluate these sensations and respond appropriately.

Except for a few days about a week into the program with some stomach/bowel detox discomfort (fixed by low-carb yogurt), the FTS lifestyle experience has been wonderful.

My energy levels are rising on a daily basis.
My mental alertness and acuity have been getting sharper by the day.
I don't feel sleepy and/or tired most all day, every day, like I used to.

I'm on a natural "high" every day, and LOVE IT!!!
And as someone who grew up in the 1960s, I can say with the authority of experience that this "high" is FAR BETTER than any high you can get from ANY drug!

[gonnagetthere]

Yea mouseissue ,so very happy for you glad you are felling better . I too feel so much better!

[Doug Varrieur]

Well done my Canadian friend you will be a wonderful success story...I can feel it I remember when you first contacted me and voiced your need for the forum support....now it will be you who will support the incoming "newbies" Stay the course!

[mouseissue]

Hi Doug!

I'm sorry if I left the impression that I'm from Canada.
I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest state of Washington.

I sometimes look out my back window at my 14' aluminum boat sitting in it's shed, covered in dust and sad.

I firmly believe that by next spring, my health will be such that I will have that boat out and be catching BIG bass in the lakes around here (not to mention the 20+ lb. rainbow trout and steelhead trout that live in many local lakes and rivers).

[Doug Varrieur]

No problem Now I'm going to bust you chops about your dusty boat  Every year in the Fall Sherri and I bass fish for the month of November in Alabama. Of course we are competitive with each other and always run a contest.. Here are the last winning pics...Sherri for large mouth...me for stripe. GO FISHIN!!!!!

[mouseissue]

Way to go Doug and Sherri!

Doug, you've got a nice striper there.

But Sherri's largemouth looks bigger.
I think she won the contest for largest fish!

I gave up fishing contests with my wife long ago.  I'm not a masochist.

It doesn't matter that throughout her life, she only goes fishing once in a blue moon.
When she does, I can count on her not only to catch the most fish, but the largest too!
If fact, if I really want to fill a cooler with fish, I just have to talk her into coming along.

I really enjoy fishing from my boat.
But my "true fishing love" is walking up and down the pristine banks or our local rivers streams and fishing for steelhead trout and salmon. But unless I want to hurt myself (or worse), I will need to wait until much of this weight is off and I feel up to the challenge of "river rock hopping".

[Doug Varrieur]

I understand...here's a pic of my NC trout hole

[toddy44]

Doug I'm your Canadian Friend!

I hope that I can be an inspiration to newbies someday soon too,

Linda

[Doug Varrieur]

You will...just stick with it! 

[mouseissue]

Doug,

Your NC stream trout hole looks very much like many of the smaller streams around here except we have more evergreen trees (like cedar and fir) that surround them.

Some of them carry MONSTER trout and big salmon!
But you'll have to hike a number of miles "busting brush" to find those "special" holes.
It's a great way to find solitude with nature on pristine waters with unmolested BIG fish that are willing to bite.

I remember a summer back in 1991 when I was MUCH thinner, I was fishing the upper reaches of a small local river drowning raw shrimp under a bobber, when I hooked and landed a "chrome bright from the sea" 18 lb. steelhead hen on 6 lb. Chameleon mono line and a long, fast, light tapered rod... WOW!!! What Fun!!! And talk about good eating!!!

I'm REALLY looking forward to doing this kind of fishing again... I can almost taste it!
All the more reason for me to succeed with the FTS lifestyle!

[toddy44]

Hey I just noticed I'm a senior member!
LOL that just means I like to talk/write a lot.......or maybe now I can use it when I have my blonde moments (no offence Umpa)....I can say I'm having a senior member moment?
PS I am doing so well this week, finally listening to my body and am loving my treadmill.  Go me!

[toddy44]

Oh sorry and Mouseissue....congrats on your new lifestyle and overcoming those nasty addictions, its difficult at first, but we are all learning and just need to keep motivated!
Linda

[mouseissue]

Hi Toddy....

I believe I've overcome my addictions.... As long as I stay in the FTS lifestyle and not pick up another cigarette.

By living on FTS, I am overcoming my addiction to bad carbs.
Since I've been in it for two weeks, I'm past detox and feeling great.
My urges for junk carbs have gone away.

The only other addiction I had was to cigarettes.
And that ended back on 05/09/2010.
No more of that for me... No Maam!

[beebs]

w00t!!! 

[Doug Varrieur]

Mouseissue, here's a motivator for you...break out your favorite fishing pole and put it in the corner of your bedroom. It will stare you in the face ever day screaming.....TAKE ME FISHIN!...