I am buying new snacks every couple of sizes.
I am hoping for a wedding in the near future, if my son gets on the stick and asks the gal he has been seeing. He needs to put a ring on her soon!
I want to be smaller than all of my adopted daughters when I am at that wedding. The cortisol stress hormone I expended that fattened me while raising them, That is gone! I have little stress in my life, comparatively speaking.
I am also putting money aside for a new wardrobe when I hit that goal.
I also buy the Atkins shakes and snacks (EXPENSIVE!) and use them as meal replacements. My wife uses them in the mornings in lieu of some microwave Bob Evans egg McMuffin or cereal now. Another zero-carb snack I have as a secret weapon is - drum roll, please - pork rinds, especially dill pickle pork rinds. (Hey, c’mon. I live in Alabama.) I don’t worry about the fat content as much as the carb content. As long as it’s working. My HDL, LDL, and triglycerides are all shot to hell, anyway, but the weight loss and carb control is paramount to getting my A1C levels back down to a manageable level. Then there’s the issue of a blood disorder and vascular issues that peripherally tie into the sugar management, which also ties in in a somewhat oblique way to internal organ problems they’re testing for. When I said I was a medical jigsaw puzzle, I meant I was the thousand piece, age-13-and-up mega box. The one weakness I have is.............peanut butter. Right out of the jar. With a good slug of cold milk.