While I have been churning out this blog during the last eight months, I have been in the process of losing weight with the aid of "Mounjaro" weight loss injections. They have spurred me on to be much more watchful about what I eat and to be far more weight conscious.
Previously, I had not weighed myself in over twenty five years and looking back I realise now that I was in denial. I didn't want to turn into somebody who constantly watched what he ate and allowed the bathroom scales to have any kind of influence. So I simply never weighed myself.
But my ostrich-like attitude was changed by high blood pressure and the warning that I was teetering on the edge of Type 2 diabetes. It was time to act and shedding weight would, of course, be of great assistance in my fight back.
Losing weight has been an up and down sometimes frustrating experience though the gradual trend has always been downwards. I am now happy to report that I have lost over two stones in weight - around thirty two pounds.
Earlier this week, I thought to myself - what does a stone feel like if you are holding it in your hand or carrying it on your back? I determined that six standard 75cl wine bottles weigh just over a stone.
So I put six bottles in a shopping bag and lifted them. Wow! They were pretty heavy and to think, I have lost the equivalent of two bags of wine bottles!
That excess weight must have been distributed around my body - not just my belly and I realise what an extra strain carrying that weight must have been placing upon me.
It was very helpful to get a handle on the amount of weight I have lost by using the bag of wine bottles idea and I would advise anybody who has successfully lost some weight to try to replicate my little exercise. A physical demonstration of the weight you have lost could provide the motivational boost you might need.
For myself, I am not done with weight loss yet but I feel I am on the final furlong of my mission and then it will be all about maintaining the reduced weight and not slipping back into those old devil-may-care ways. Vigilance shall be my watchword... I hope.
Good on you for losing a couple of stone. Our weight is very important. It's very hard to keep weight off. Good luck.
ReplyDeleteSo in our money, you've lost 2kr or 20 wal.
ReplyDelete1 litre of milk weighs 1 kilogram, so it is easy for me to imagine.
Congratulations on your weight loss. I'm reading your blog from California.
ReplyDeleteMy own similar take was the 2 litre pop bottles - at 2kg/5lb a time...
ReplyDeleteMarsupials?? No No No, we use kg like most of the rest of the world.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was much younger, a teenager still, I easily lifted many 40 pound blocks of cheese daily to wrap for export while working in the cheese factory. My current weight loss is about half a block of cheese and I know I have been bad at trying to lose the other half of the block of cheese, but now the weather is cooler I can begin the walking I did to lose the first 20 pounds. Probably I should also eat less cheese...
Congratulations on the significant weight loss. I hope you can continue on doggedly with your life saving quest.
ReplyDeleteI am amazed to think that I too lost the equivalent weight to your two bags of (full) wine bottles just a couple of years ago. Crikey!
Two bags of six wine bottles is quite a lot - more than I would like to carry in one go! When I have received a carton of six bottles of sparkling wine for my birthday, I managed to carry that to the cellar, but I would have made the trip twice for two boxes.
ReplyDeleteOur bodies are designed to move around comfortably up to a certain weight, depending on height, age, gender and what is understood as build. Any more than that puts unnecessary strain on our joints, bones, heart, blood circulatiom and so on - just like it would not be advisable to overload a lift with more weight than what it is intended for.
You‘ve done well so far and I hope you feel the positive effects. It‘s not about everyone having to be super slim and super fit, but it‘s taking responsibility for one‘s own health and body (each of us has only one).
Well done, indeed, Keep it up, or rather, down.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter also takes Mounjaro (she has 2 autoimmune disorders). She's lost about 30 pounds in a few months. She unfortunately has an upset stomach almost all the time. It's worth it, though, to help get her weight to a healthier number.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on your weight loss. I know it is not an easy thing to do. It takes perseverance.
ReplyDeleteWell done!
ReplyDeleteI lost the same amount a couple of years ago by using the Slimming World programme. I never felt hungry and found it quite easy but some of it has gone back on as I resorted to previous eating habits. It’s a slightly depressing thought that you have to permanently keep an eye on what you eat to stay slim but an exercise like this one is a good way to remind us that it’s worth it. I felt so much better when I was slimmer.
I think about this frequently. How could a person not feel better without so much extra weight to carry around? Less strain on the joints, the heart, the muscles, the tendons. It's simply true.
ReplyDeleteI don't think we know how much weight we've lost until we have to carry it around again!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the weight loss, Neil. Wishing you good health!
ReplyDeleteWell done! I've lost five pounds and it's hard to do.
ReplyDeleteI was going to ask: aren't American pounds different to UK ones? But then I realised it is pointless to ask such a question in the modern age without looking up the answer on the internet. And then I found I'd remembered it all wrong and got it mixed up with US and "Imperial" gallons.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the great shedding. Do you feel a bodily improvement?
I am still flummoxed by measuring weight in stones. Sometimes doctors' offices want my weight in stones and I have to haul out Google to convert it for me. Of course, I have to do that with celsius temperatures, too. I am an old dog -- no new tricks for me.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations and keep on going with your weight loss. You can already feel the difference.
ReplyDeleteWell done on losing that weight - it is certainly a lot of extra weight to carry around and a strain on your heart. Will you have to stay permanently on Mounjaro or will you rely on willpower in future?
ReplyDeleteWell done, and I hope you achieve your goal weight whatever that is - and then manage to keep it. I managed to lose a lot of kilos myself more than a decade ago; alas since then I have also managed to put some back on again. Still far from where I was at worst, though, so it was definitely worth it.
ReplyDeleteWell done pudding …or should we be calling u crackers and grapes?
ReplyDeleteIs it true we only have one body as Meike said ?
ReplyDelete*What is Etheric Body and how to strengthen it ?* Learning Mind online.
I go a wee bit New Age now and then.
At a very Reformed church in Glasgow I talked to a young Korean woman.
She had graduated in Product Design from the Glasgow School of Art,
and we were chatting away about the Bahaus.
I recall the look of horror on her face when I said I was interested in the
Korean shamans. You'd think I was tempting her with Ayahuasca.
Well done on the weight loss, my dad has lost quite a bit with the injections. He was always a big chap until recently.
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