Today I celebrate my 60th!
Posted by danleone on August 31st, 2007 filed in uncategorized…NOT BIRTHDAY! I will be 43 next week.
Today, I have officially lost 60 pounds!
Yay me!
I know I eliminated many of my favorite foods, but that is fine. I have had to make fundamental changes with my relationship with food more for health reasons than simply losing weight. Many people think that my diet sounds boring…and it is! But, for now, it is so freeing to not have food on my brain 24 hours a day. I no longer eat refined grains, almost all sugars and sweeteners, meat and dairy. I even limit the amount of whole grains due to gluten issues. I predominately eat fruits and vegetables, nuts and other rabbit food. Occasionally, I will have some fish and yogurt.
But I honestly have never felt better. I have suffered from gastic distress, dermatological issues including pyoderma gangrenosum as well as VERY painful and even more embarrassing cystic acne as an adult. Those have MOSTLY disappeared. There is no medically proven association between food and some of these issues, but if I feel OK for now and am clearly getting all the nutrients I need to stay alive, then who cares if science can prove it? (Listen to the atheist making choices without using science! Hypocrite!). Not to mention that I LOST 60 POUNDS!
I am also running a lot and secretly planning on a Fall marathon this year (shhhh! Don’t tell anyone!). I even did a12 mile run a couple of weeks ago.
Of course, I know that I could easily fall back into more destructive eating habits again, but I am allowing myself to ride this wave for as long as I can. It is not a struggle right now and who cares if it is a struggle. That’s life.
Thanks for listening.
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August 31st, 2007 at 10:14 am
Congratulations. (Also on your birthday). 12 mile run? That’s crazy. I can’t even drive 12 miles.
August 31st, 2007 at 10:59 am
Thats sooo AWESOME
August 31st, 2007 at 12:25 pm
YEAHHHHHHH!!!! (I’m jumping up and down at my desk for you.)
That is awesome…
August 31st, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Good god, you lost £60??
Have you checked behind the couch?
(a little English humor for you there)
Well done.
August 31st, 2007 at 4:56 pm
I guess it would be redundant to say “that’s awesome!” but I’m going to say it anyway. THAT’S AWESOME! It takes so much strength to avoid some of the stuff that is so readily available for our consumption. Way to GO!
August 31st, 2007 at 5:15 pm
dan!!!!! i am so proud… and to think i knew you when…. really tho,, that is soooo exciting… now tell me when you get to the last 20… will you let me know as i have about 20 i’d like to loose and maybe by then ill be done comforting myself … and ready to get rid of it… i have been carrying it around for probably 10 years,,, but you know…we never really became that good of friends……
August 31st, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Thanks all for your kind words. I will be honest with you all and tell you that writing about this victory for me was extremely humbling and I have to admit a tad embarrassing. I was ashamed at what I had become and found it increasingly difficult to look at myself in the mirror (because it wasn’t wide enough?)
The culmination of all this will be to scan a few photos I have of the befores and afters.
By the way, T’Real Dan, I have neither 60 English pounds nor 60 US Dollars to lose in the first place. It is my pocket that is the leanest part of me.
And, Skipper, how much would I have to pay you for a photograph of you jumping up and down?!
Thanks again, my friends.
Dan
August 31st, 2007 at 5:55 pm
Congratulations
September 1st, 2007 at 7:37 am
8×10 glossies? or full size???
September 1st, 2007 at 8:20 am
YAY Donato! I’m up (down?) to 9 pounds lost but after the 4th Annual Backyard Labour Day Bash tonight, that may go by the weigh side (if you’ll excuse the pun!)
September 1st, 2007 at 10:47 am
Skipper….both would be scary.
Me….I will definitely NOT excuse the pun. That was so bad that it was GOOD!
September 1st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
This is really nice.
you have lost a huge amount of weight. I real felt good for kind of effort u put.
September 1st, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Congratulations to you!!!!!
September 3rd, 2007 at 11:19 am
How awesome! You should be very proud of yourself. I’m about 50 pounds behind you, but I’ll get there!
September 8th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
Yeah for YOU!!
October 19th, 2007 at 10:54 am
Just wonderful! I have also lost a lot of weight myself, so I understand how good it feels! Its great to have those pants to hang off you isnt it? All my clotes are too big, good thing I wear scrubs because my 3 kids take all my money so I have to buy a new piece of clothing once in a blue moon.