I haven’t seen 172 since the 1980’s. Jane was right: I was using about a cup of cheese a day for each of us, and it was not our friend…so I went to parmesan, not cheddar, on the morning eggs, and everything through the day quite light, and bingo! off comes the pesky pound.
Your weight has set-points that your body remembers for decades. And when your diet hits one it can take weeks to break through. The set-point then becomes a ceiling rather than a floor you can’t get through—you now will rise to that point if you are ‘bad’ and have a little grace before getting beyond it.
Physiology is a weird and wonderful thing. But y’know, when you’re good on a diet for most of a year, you’ve gotten rid of most of your bad habits, and it’s time to start finding the pony under all this effort.
I think Jane was quite right. Far less cheese. I may make it to size 10 jeans.
And it’s snowing! Glorious fat flakes! Hurrah for snow! [with apologies to places that have had way too much of it!]
And it spat snow for about 10 minutes … and stopped. Sigh.
I plateaued when I broke down and turned the heat on. I got off the plateau when I set it down a few degrees.
I read about that effect online last week, and it even made the local TV news.
Interesting comment about the thermostat.
We’re still holding your weather hostage here in Atlanta, CJ. We’re expecting several inches of snow and ice by tomorrow afternoon. The snow we’re looking forward to…the ice, not so much.
I’m not sure how much of a difference in sodium exists between cheddar and parmesan, but I believe parmesan has a higher sodium content. I’ll have to check, but it seems the cheeses that are hard and aged longer have more sodium in them…
You want some of our snow? We’ve got something like 8 or so inches on the ground, where it isn’t drifted. Plus, it’s supposed to get down to -15F tonight, and a high of -4F tomorrow. Welcome to West Central Ohio! Why did I move back here? It was so warm in Guam……
Lol–re Guam.
Cheddar definitely has the most fat.
If you prefer cheddar, Trader Joe’s has some low fat varieties. I like the Celtic cheddar, I think it is. Actually, they have them even if you prefer Parmesan. 😉
There’s also a low fat Jarlsberg that’s really nice. It’s something like a “Swiss”.
Yes! It’s very good, too. They even have low fat Brie but–since they tend to stack the Bries together–be careful you don’t pick up the double-cream Brie. Of course, all this cheesey goodness has a downside. You can’t go back to that tasteless soap they sell in the supermarkets.
Texas will take your snow! We need all the moisture we can get.
Felicitously, it has been raining off and on here for the last 24 hours. We can certainly use the moisture; leeward parts of the islands have been suffering under varying degrees of drought restriction for a couple years now. The past 3 months have seen a succession of rainstorms, all of which are most welcome. Unfortunately, turning down the heat to help with weight loss doesn’t work here. Conga-rats on making it past your latest set-point!
Oh! The mental picture that phrase evokes!
Yes, I too got a vivid mental picture with the Conga Rats — remember the ship rats in the Muppet movies (Rizzo and the others?): I can just see them dancing off the pirate ship. What a classy way to abandon ship! I may well steal this phrase from you, chondrite!
We were talking about the winter of 78 in the office yesterday. I remember it far too well. Currently, I feel like I have been making trips to the space station when I walk from the car to the office! I’m not wearing as much to work as I did in 78, only because I’m not sure where the long underwear is and I don’t have any tights nor boots that fit!
I totally missed the winter of 78…..On December 30, 1977, I flew out of Dayton, OH, for Philadelphia and on then to Rota, Spain. A couple of days later, flew on an Air Force C-130 Hercules for Naples, Italy, and then took the command bus 60 miles up the west coast to Gaeta, where I reported aboard my very first Navy ship, the USS Albany, a guided missile cruiser which was also the Sixth Fleet flagship. I did get pictures from my mom who sent me clippings from the newspaper.
One of the local TV station’s weather–following the rule that hyperpole is the greatest, most incredible, most fantastic thing in the entire Universe and beyond!–is warning, “Cold Sunday! 61 / 48”. Sheesh.
I think someone should come up with a Conga-Rats! cartoon!
http://congarats.ytmnd.com/
After I started this 5:2 “Fast Diet” my sister got the book and started. Now, she’s been on several diet plans; lost a lot of weight on one popular about 25-30 years ago, and gained it back and then some. She’s become a Type II diabetic on “meds”.
Several day ago she went in for a checkup. Her H1AC dropped from 9 to 7.5, and -60pts off her triglycerides. Not half bad! 😉
Yay!