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July 30, 2026 · 12:32 am

Lard Loss Report – July 2026

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I’m coming to the end of my “Losing the Lard” project. It started in earnest about two years ago when we were still in Arkansas. I got more serious when my heart stopped twice in the hospital ER requiring a pacemaker. And the final push was when my husband had a stroke 2 weeks after we moved to Thailand to retire, regain our health, and live close to our son. Seeing what ignoring problems has done to my husband was the final impetus to GET MY LARD OFF and try to get healthier.

My son has been instrumental in my efforts. He doesn’t SAY a lot; he just decides what to do next – we discuss it and agree – and does it. That has made the final difference.

To date my weight loss is 97 pounds – from 205 to 108 today (the final 42 pounds while I’ve been here in Thailand. ) There is now a little over 91 inches less of me. I am 5’4″ and shrinking – I AM 79, after all… :0)

I started with a BMI of 35. (obese) It is now 20 (healthy!)

I eat two meals a day and enjoy an iced chocolate drink or an iced latte every afternoon. We are trying to make sure we are eating reasonably healthy food, focusing more on the portions, watching sugar, empty carbs, etc.

I am walking a mile on the treadmill every morning. In the afternoon I am doing yoga stretches and water bottle exercises on alternate days. I’m going down the stairs each time I visit my son, who lives four floors above me. I’m working on trying to up the stairs a bit at a time. I am doing various online video exercises as I can work them in, and simply enjoying putting on my headphones and dancing around the room like a nut to music from YouTube.

I’m happy to have finally met my weight goal. I plan to stay in a 3 pound range (108-110), not stressing out, but serious about maintenance. I’m more serious about trying to get stronger now that I have the weight off. I would like to increase my flexibility, my balance, and the strength in my core muscles. I LIKE feeling better and more energetic. I drink more water and I do rest between activities. I am sleeping better now. I have appetite, but I’m not making food a high point in my day. I enjoy all the things we’re eating (except when we get something that is too spicy for me and blows the top of my head off.) The doctor is pleased with my efforts and we have gone from monthly appointments to every six month appointments now.

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June 28, 2025 · 9:31 pm

“Take Less of Me…”

Willie Nelson – “Take All of Me…” – Wikipedia

“All of me
Why not take all of me?”

I love this song by Willie Nelson. I immediately started humming it when I was weighing and measuring for my end of the month reporting on my efforts to lose the lard – except I sang, “Less of me – Why not take less of me?”

I’m finally entering a phase where I can actually see what might be the end of my efforts to LOSE and the beginning of maintenance. I’ve been at this a LONG time and I had honestly begun to doubt my ability to actually achieve my goal.

As of today, I’ve lost almost 67 pounds and 60 inches since my heaviest. Even though Lynn, my much appreciated and much missed massage therapist did what she could to make me taller, it didn’t work. So I’ve continued to eat low carb and exercise more. I’m now finally within sight of my goal to be in the middle to lower end of the healthy range on a BMI chart and to continue my efforts to get more fit and flexible.

I talked to Brian this morning at breakfast. He has been helping and supporting me, but has lately been getting further and further from strict low carb, trying to introduce me to nice food here, plus just pamper me. We have agreed to be stricter about the low carb, and that instead of each of us getting half of whatever we order, I’ll get one-third and he’ll get two-thirds. I would LIKE to get to my goal weight by my next visit to the doctor – in about two months. Brian and I have agreed that I’ll aim to lose 1 kilo a week (or 2.2 pounds.)

I’m walking a mile on the treadmill at the gym each morning and I’m doing yoga stretches (now in the afternoon) as well as 3 new exercises to strengthen my back.

I hope there will be ‘less of me’ at the end of July!

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June 19, 2025 · 1:55 am

New Decade of Lard

Can you see me doing my happy dance?

After a year or more of whining/moaning/griping about being in the ‘morbidly obese’ category of the dreaded BMI Chart, I have FINALLY entered a new decade of weight – (this morning) the edge of which is JUST into the “healthy weight” part of the chart.

My goal now is to get into the MIDDLE of the healthy range, or under that enough so that I can walk into a clothing store without worrying if they have ANYTHING large enough for me to wear. I don’t know how much more weight and inches that means, but it feels good to be more within sight of it now.

My combination of mostly eating low carb meals (eating breakfast and dinner with a coffee in-between) and then my exercising with walking a mile on the treadmill at the gym with my son every morning and yoga stretches in the afternoon, plus adventures where we are enjoying walking to and from interesting spots in the city, all seems to be coming together finally.

The clinic doctor, of course, will have the final say. We saw her a month ago for a baseline. She immediately put me on a combination blood pressure drug because I was into stroke territory. She also told me to lose weight (surprise!) and I have lost a bit over 10 lbs (47 kgs) since we saw her. I’m hoping that she will be pleased with my numbers when we see her again Monday afternoon in follow up. I’ll measure at the end of the month to see if I’ve made any progress there.

I hope you’ll join me in my happy dance. 💃💪🏻😁

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