by Ragman » Sat Jan 31, 2015 8:06 am
I started the MWLP on the twenty second, jumping in immediately - I had been weighed that day, and I hit 354. Being a teraparesic in a power wheelchair makes losing weight darn near impossible, or so is the generally accepted view. I started this program with no particular hope - I have been trying to lose weight for the last twenty years, but exercise is not an option, so me, and countless nutritionist, doctors and nurses had about given up on the possibility of me getting thinner. It is difficult to weigh me, and not easy to measure my gut - I say gut because that is what hides my waistline. Weighing is a once a month thing, but when I started my belly was measured - 65•7 inches. That terrified me - In 2007 I spent most of the year as a fruit eating vegan, and managed to get to 38 inches but since then, when I listened to doctors, nutritionists and nurses who told me I would kill myself eating that type of food, I have increased at an accelerating rate.
However, one week following the MWLP I find myself officially mind-blown. This morning, my attendant whipped out the tape when I was upright in the lift. On the 22nd, as I said, my measurement sat at 65•7". This morning, ten days of the program later, my measurement is 61 inches - not 61•5 or other fraction, but a genuine 61 inches. This is completely unexpected, and as I mentioned totally mind-blowing. I can't get near the scale for another 20 days, so I am expecting to be blown away again at that time.
I have eating nothing but things I forever considered fattening, and have shrunk, despite being immobile in a power chair. I shall continue to sit here, like a somewhat mobile statue, and lose weight by eating a lot.
63 years old, in a power wheelchair with no ambulant ability, and limited motion.
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