To Old To Lose Weight?

Annmarie Throckmorton, M.A.
3 days ago
2 min read

Updated: 2 days ago

Food is a pixilated puzzle to me as I study the obscure biological processes and complex mental meanderings in my relationship with food. The question is, will I or won't I lose weight, and drop from 235# to 175#? That would certainly ease my passage from my late seventies through my eighties and on to...

My Community Health Worker coached me on this, so I emailed her this progress report:

Hi B,

I feel...I sense that eating these proper sized servings is very fragile behavior for me, and I do not want to lose this little bit of momentum toward losing the weight that will make my late 70's, 80's...so much easier. My goal is still to drop down to 200#, but secretly I would like to be 175#. :-)

In the past few weeks I purchased on-line from Amazon half a dozen boxes of individual serving packets* in order to teach myself what a proper individual serving size looks like and eats like. And it feels good, it tastes good. I feel surprised and proud of myself.

Meal preparation this way is easy too, no struggling with sizing my own portions, with worrying whether it is too much? Or is it enough? Maybe I should splurge and "treat" or "comfort" myself by over-eating? I do not want to worry that maybe this should be my "serious diet" meal and I should eat much, much less. All of that decision-making was too much to handle when I was standing up dizzy and nauseous in my tiny kitchen with very little counter space to work on, and no table or chair to rest on. Fortunately, at my age those hunger goblins' lies are not as persuasive as they used to be. And my taste buds are long gone so I have all of that in my favor to lose weight.

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I bought boxes of individual serving packets of numerous kinds of food: Chex Mix, Omega 3 nuts and fruit, Granola bars, Lance's Captain's Wafers, Flavor Aide drink mix (the last is a lot like Koo-aid in adult flavors but individually size), etcetera.

Today on the blue serving size plate I put: a packet of Chex Mix (wheat-carbohydrate), a packet of Omega 3 nuts and fruit (fiber/vitamins in Cranberries, Sugar, Sunflower Oil), Walnuts, Roasted Almonds (Almonds, Peanut Oil), Pumpkin Seeds, Pecans, Pistachios) and soft chew Homtiem Dried Crystallized Ginger from Thailand (delicious fiber and cane sugar, ginger rhizome is a vegetable, the cane sugar is dessert.)

My protein for the day will be two eggs this evening, added with soy sauce to a can of chicken noodle soup for a quick-and-easy Chinese egg-drop soup. Sounds good!

Thanks for asking me to tell you about this, it helped me solidify what I am doing.

Annmarie

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