Ever since I posted Hoop Dreams back in February, I've been steadily hooping, dieting, and losing weight, documented mostly in the comments there and occasionally on Facebook. Time for a Rixo progress report!
This morning, for the first time, I tipped the scales at twenty-five pounds less than I weighed in mid-February when I started keeping track. That probably represents a slightly larger weight loss, since I didn't dare weigh myself for the first couple of weeks of the diet-and-hoop plan. But it's a nice, substantial number to reach and represents the halfway point of my goal of fifty pounds total weight loss. It's only one pound over the lowest weight I've been in the last five years (at least), though I'm cheating somewhat with that comparison since that was before surgery removed five pounds in one fell swoop.
I was actually a little startled at this morning's weigh-in results. I'd been hovering around a twenty- to twenty-three-pound weight loss for about five weeks now. I thought I'd plateaued and was planning to just stay in that range for a few months while my metabolism adjusted. I'm delighted that the weight loss has resumed, though I'm still not making a big effort at it right now since I don't want my body to decide I'm actually starving to death and start conserving calories.
This weight loss has been achieved entirely by controlling my total
calorie intake per day and by regular sessions with my hula hoops.
There's no secret, no wacky diet, no restrictions on what foods I can
eat, and no gym time or exercise other than hooping and my usual
dancing. But it's working beautifully.
A few notes on the process so far:
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