Hi I am back:
I was too late for Saturady weigh-in dedline but on
Nov. 20, 2015 - 247.6 - if I can use that as my start weight for the next weigh in please?Debbie: So sorry you had a hospital stay - hoping all is perfect now!
It's so wonderful to see all these new folks, and others who I have participated with before on the MWL weigh-in.
And it's great to have
Jeff and Star McDougaller's
Katy and
FrozenVeg giving us tips and even being on the weighin with us.
FrozenVeg - so glad you found a restaurant that works for you and MWL! Wow - more rare than precious jewels! Congrats on the wedding in your family and best of luck on the renovations - a pain but so exciting!
I have been away for a long period - I have fibromyalgia which is a sleep disorder, including bad periods of insomnia. When I am in an insomnia phase - which I have been for months and months - weight loss is not possible for me. It's also really hard to stay out of the craving cycle due to the leptin/gherlin fluctuations that come with sleep deprivation. Anyway, I have gained a ton again.
I am now full back on both McDougall and FODMAPS elimination diet, which is helping in many ways but mostly the sleep - straight McDougall is not sufficient unfortunately. Many fibro people have problems with sugars - not just added sugars but those in foods - the FODMAPS ED allows me to know what my safe foods are likely to be and which can be problematical as far as the culprit sugars go. They have been right as I test each food in three of the categories - I have already completely given up the 4th lactose with McD!
Anyway, doing both these has improved my sleep and weight-loss is occurring again - slowly. If I only could get my aged cats to not wake me up at night. I am in bed 9 hours a night to get 7 - because the cats have me doing drills for them 2 HOURS A NIGHTS. I mentioned this to my wonderful whole-food plant-based supporting doc at Kaiser and she said me too with her cat - we had a shared woe is me session and I almost forgot why I had come to see her
I am hope I am ready to be back full on! I will weigh in with you all day after Thanksgiving - boy is that brave
PS - Thanksgiving is with my family and this year the plan is to go to a really highly lauded restaurant - always in the top 10 each year in the San Francisco Chronicle. The family is thrilled to do this - they are all very skinny foodies - how can I be related??? The menu for Thanksgiving is not posted on their website and will be the same for all attending. I am hoping their are enough veggie sides to get me through - but I doubt as FrozenVeg pointed out that I will be able to foil the oil, but I sure will try!