Back to Losing

I lost 2 kilos this week, what a relief . I also noticed when taking my measurements today that I’ve lost nearly six inches from around my waist and four off my hips since August 25. I’m really pleased with that; no wonder my blood pressure has gone down. I’m trying right now to work up menus of foods that will be easy for me to prepare and take to work with me, and I found a really nice one the other day which was a cucumber salad with salmon or ocean or ocean trout mixed through and a dill vinaigrette. I made another today, which was penne pasta with grilled vegetables and shredded poached chicken. I’ll be trying out a tuna tabbouleh on Saturday and a lamb dish with quinoa tomorrow. I’m pretty excited about the quinoa dish as I’ve always wanted to try quinoa, but not blind . Anyway, I’ll likely be posting the recipes later in the week. It’s nice to get some extra fish and varied grains in my diet though.

I’m such a techno-goof. I’ve actually made up an excel spreadsheet tracking all of this stuff, with formulas for converting centimeters (which I measure in for my dietitian) to inches, and tallying my total losses and charting them. I love a good chart I guess, and it’s nice when the lines show a steady decline at this point . I’m also using it to track my blood pressure and heart rate ranges throughout the day and chart those… super goof! Anyway it inspires me to look back on it all I guess. Especially my bp and heart rate ranges. My resting heart rate was near the 90’s in August, now it’s down in the sixties; hopefully it’ll keep improving if I keep challenging myself.