When we last left off here in Skinnyland, I had given up duck fat fries and taken up....powdered eggs.
Medifast is the diet I did from May-July, and I lost tweny pounds. It works like this: Each day you eat five Medifast "meals" that you buy either online or at a Medifast center, and one meal you prepare made up of a green veggie and a lean protein.
Medifast meals are mostly powdered - shakes, eggs, oatmeal, soups- but also bars and pretzels and cheese puff snacks. Lots of water. NO booze.
On some days, it was as bad as it sounds, but other days, it was this crazy system that kept me freakishly in check in a way no diet ever has. I would weigh every morning to find, in most cases, the pounds and ounces just disappearing.
If you read the stories of other Medifasters (or MFers as we like to call ourselves) you'll find similar stories of seemingly overnight successs, and if you're looking to really see results fast, I truly can't recommend it enough.
The downfall is...it's a very rigid plan, and when/if you do cheat...you see a quick gain. After a while, a girl can no longer exist on magic chocolate bars and cheease puffs, no matter who loose her pants are getting...
So, after three months (and what friends and co-workers in hindsight would tell me was a long stretch of me in a very bad mood....) I transitioned from Medifast to Weight Watchers....
Monday, September 12, 2011
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
How Duck Fat Fries Made Me Skinnier
It's funny how things in life happen....how all the dots connect. I'm pretty sure if it weren't for Duck Fat Fries, I would still be carrying lots of extra weight around.
Rewind a bit to earlier this year...
I'm at a restaurant near my house that is famous for its duck fat fries. Also there, a friend-of-a-friend named Kris. We exchange hellos, pleasantries about the fries, of course, and it's then that I learn she is a blogger, too. A weight loss blogger. By this point, I hadn't updated my diet blog in a while, but the nosey, sick, twisted side of me loves to follow other bloggers, especially those with some kind of real story to share, and hello, I can emphatize with few things MORE than fighting the scale. I started stalking Simply Fabuloss.
Then Kris started Medifast....
I'd heard the Medifast ads on the radio, and like most diet commericials, the stories shared from people claiming to have lost a ton of weight in little to no time seemed, well, just too good to be true.
Then Kris lost 13 pounds in ONE week.
Then I signed up for Medifast. And I haven't ordered duck fat fries since...
Rewind a bit to earlier this year...
I'm at a restaurant near my house that is famous for its duck fat fries. Also there, a friend-of-a-friend named Kris. We exchange hellos, pleasantries about the fries, of course, and it's then that I learn she is a blogger, too. A weight loss blogger. By this point, I hadn't updated my diet blog in a while, but the nosey, sick, twisted side of me loves to follow other bloggers, especially those with some kind of real story to share, and hello, I can emphatize with few things MORE than fighting the scale. I started stalking Simply Fabuloss.
Then Kris started Medifast....
I'd heard the Medifast ads on the radio, and like most diet commericials, the stories shared from people claiming to have lost a ton of weight in little to no time seemed, well, just too good to be true.
Then Kris lost 13 pounds in ONE week.
Then I signed up for Medifast. And I haven't ordered duck fat fries since...
Monday, August 22, 2011
No really, this time will be different.....
I have written a little on I Do Declare about the fact that since May, I've been dieting. I've lost just shy of 25 pounds. However, I still weight around what I did when I began The Red Dress Report. Yeah...you do the math.
Last year, I got the idea to create this weight loss blog from an article I'd read in some magazine. The reporter needed to lose about 20 pounds, so she signed up for Weight Watchers. The story chronicled her week-by-week efforts, and at the end of her piece readers learn she did, in fact, drop the 20 pounds, plus a few more.
With each progress report, she shared her weight. I thought her candor gave real grit to the story, and since I'd just started I Do Declare I thought it a great idea to create another blog just about my diet. You know, expand my brand {ha!}. I also thought, surely, if I tell the world - or even the few people who decide to follow my blog - how much I actually weigh there's no way I'll let myself fail.
Since I disappeared from this blog more than a year ago, you can probably guess what didn't happen (the red dress still doesn't fit) and what did (the only thing that expanded was my rear).
As I've shared before, I'm an avoider. I even avoided this blog (and the scale!) once I let one week, then two, then months pass without holding myself accountable. I clicked on this blog just before starting this round of weight loss efforts to reread some of my old posts.
When The Red Dress Report began, I was in such a strong mental place. I truly thought I was going to succeed. I would have never claimed all 163+ pounds if I didn't think eventually I'd be thin again.
Well, I'm still not. But, I am stilling trying.
This time, instead of sort of dieting for a week or two, I have a solid three months behind me. I still have a solid 20-25 pounds to put behind me, too....which is why I'm here. Again.
I'll be sharing how I lost the first round of pounds, and documenting the ups and downs as I try to shed those which remain. And this time, (I HOPE!) the only thing that will disappear for a while will be this excess weight.
Last year, I got the idea to create this weight loss blog from an article I'd read in some magazine. The reporter needed to lose about 20 pounds, so she signed up for Weight Watchers. The story chronicled her week-by-week efforts, and at the end of her piece readers learn she did, in fact, drop the 20 pounds, plus a few more.
With each progress report, she shared her weight. I thought her candor gave real grit to the story, and since I'd just started I Do Declare I thought it a great idea to create another blog just about my diet. You know, expand my brand {ha!}. I also thought, surely, if I tell the world - or even the few people who decide to follow my blog - how much I actually weigh there's no way I'll let myself fail.
Since I disappeared from this blog more than a year ago, you can probably guess what didn't happen (the red dress still doesn't fit) and what did (the only thing that expanded was my rear).
As I've shared before, I'm an avoider. I even avoided this blog (and the scale!) once I let one week, then two, then months pass without holding myself accountable. I clicked on this blog just before starting this round of weight loss efforts to reread some of my old posts.
When The Red Dress Report began, I was in such a strong mental place. I truly thought I was going to succeed. I would have never claimed all 163+ pounds if I didn't think eventually I'd be thin again.
Well, I'm still not. But, I am stilling trying.
This time, instead of sort of dieting for a week or two, I have a solid three months behind me. I still have a solid 20-25 pounds to put behind me, too....which is why I'm here. Again.
I'll be sharing how I lost the first round of pounds, and documenting the ups and downs as I try to shed those which remain. And this time, (I HOPE!) the only thing that will disappear for a while will be this excess weight.
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