Seventy Pounds Gone

As of today I have lost seventy pounds. It does not seem real or possible, but it is. I want to take a quick moment to celebrate this and say goodbye to the flab I carried around for a long time. I have never really been what you would call skinny but my forties were tough for me and as I found out losing weight as you get older is much more difficult. As I am in the obituary business, my coach Gail gave me some interesting homework. Write an obituary for all the weight I have lost. Great assignment but it is said you eat it twice so here is the menu.

Amuse-Bouche - 0 to 10 lbs.

This was the last weight I gained. I gained so much weight it started to get added to strange places, like the back of my head and inside of my thighs. Definitely the nadir of my weight gain journey.

Potage - 10 to 20 lbs.

DoorDash!

Oeuf - 20 to 30 lbs.

While I did not join the sourdough club, I did bake a lot of carbs in the first year of lockdown. Pizza crusts, sandwich breads, sea salt chocolate chip cookies. I ate mountains of toast.

Appetizer - 30 to 40 lbs.

The first 10 pounds from the pandemic. I feel like most of this was booze weight and candy dinners.

Coquilles - 40 to 50 lbs.

Travel weight, stress eating and airport bars. I traveled home a lot the first few years after dad’s stroke. Possibly some Lexapro thrown in there, too.

Entree - 30 to 40 lbs.

Stroke Weight (Dad’s)

Sorbet - 40 to 50 lbs.

Weight from dealing with Dad’s stroke and has been the hardest to lose.

Trou Normand - 50 to 60 lbs.

People talk about the Lexapro 30. I had the Lexapro 50.

Fromage - 60 to 70 lbs.

There was probably some actual cheese in this course, and of course a lot of Apple.