Well, hell's bells...

[clifffaith]

So for the first time in forever I DID NOT make a New Year's resolution to lose weight. Mainly because I have the ingredients for carrot cake with cream cheese frosting in the fridge (two of us looking for spumoni for Italian Christmas dinner came up with nothing, so I bought CC ingredients, only to stumble upon spumoni at Smart & Final later). I've been reading about trying to leave 12-14 hours of not eating as helpful to pre-diabetes, so I thought I'd start that (we don't eat breakfast much before 10am, so pretty easy to stop eating at 8pm). So today I thought to record my weight anyway, as I do every Jan 1 or 2. I've lost 7 pounds since I last weighed in mid-Novemeber before going to the doctor! Her scale weighs so high (and of course I'm dressed and shod) that it always freaks me out. I don't care that hers is most likely accurate, I just need a baseline at home so I always check before I go. So tell me how the heck did I lose 7 pounds over the holidays?? Worse than that, I dropped two pounds below a ten pound marker, so now I'm bound and determined not to go back up over that weight.

Only thing I can figure was that I was having a "fat day" when I weighed in November. Since I stopped seeing clients in October of 2018 I now mostly skip lunch. When I was working I needed my lunch to fortify me for an afternoon of customers agonizing over which white they wanted, and that was always best when not hungry or having too low a blood sugar. I grumbled in November that surely skipping lunch for a year should have been good for a few pounds since I generally don't think about food until 4pm when I either grab a handful of pretzels or an apple, or make an early dinner if a snack doesn't help. I am ever so much better watching my weight when I get a happy surprise on the scale, than I am when I hate what I see! I have to live up to the scale's "gift" now!

BTW, I went to St. Mary's Catholic girl's high school. We were the Belles of St. Mary's -- referred to among ourselves as Hell's Belles, although we suspected the nuns thought that way about some of us. Sister Catherine Louise I'm sure felt that way after six weeks of shepherding me in Europe between junior and senior years.

 

[Sugarcubesea]

When I saw your title “Well Hell’s Bells”. It made me so happy because it brought back my favorite memories of the holidays. My amazing grandmother would always say this and then engulfed me in a huge hug.
Can I just say I love TUG and love all of the amazing folks that make this place like a great big hug when one is needed.

 

[dmbrand]

Ditto here. Hell’s bells was a phrase I’ve heard many a time in the past. Brings back fun memories.

 

[VacationForever]

The main question is whether you are eating less carbs and fewer calories than before. If you are, then it is a no-brainer as to why you now weigh less.
You mentioned pre-diabetes, so it should not be related what I have to write here. For diabetes that are out of control, the person will lose weight no matter how much he/she eats because the body cannot process carbs/sugar to be absorbed into the tissue. It is a dangerous situation because blood sugar will be very high, causing damage to the organs.

 

[Talent312]

From phrases.org.uk...
The exclamation 'Hell's bells' has been used in both the UK and the USA since at least the mid-19th century. The earliest example of it in print is from the London paper The Era (February 1840). The story concerned a character who had stolen his friend's partridges and replaced them with pigeons, claiming them to be ptarmigan:

To be sure that's a ptarmigan - a sort of white grouse... Ptarmigan be damned. Hells bells!
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[clifffaith]

The main question is whether you are eating less carbs and fewer calories than before. If you are, then it is a no-brainer as to why you now weigh less.
You mentioned pre-diabetes, so it should not be related what I have to write here. For diabetes that are out of control, the person will lose weight no matter how much he/she eats because the body cannot process carbs/sugar to be absorbed into the tissue. It is a dangerous situation because blood sugar will be very high, causing damage to the organs.

Yes, presumably 400-500 calories less for not eating lunch, but no idea why it wouldn't have shown as a loss in November, or for that matter June. And believe me when I say I've not watched what I was eating at all during the holidays, including two half pound boxes of See's (too wicked to buy a pound for myself, so I go before Thanksgiving and then again before Christmas to spread the calories out).

 

[pittle]

I love the Hells' Bells Not many folks use it anymore, but I do.

Since I retired, we do breakfast and then eat late lunch/early dinner betweem 3-4 each day. We sleep much better and do not eat so many calories. Occasionally, we might have some popcorn or ice cream between 7-8, but that is usually just once a week.

 

[rapmarks]

That’s the cats meow

 

[clifffaith]

I love the Hells' Bells Not many folks use it anymore, but I do.

Since I retired, we do breakfast and then eat late lunch/early dinner betweem 3-4 each day. We sleep much better and do not eat so many calories. Occasionally, we might have some popcorn or ice cream between 7-8, but that is usually just once a week.

We call dinner before 4pm "linner", and that's our last meal of the day. We're taking El Pollo Loco to Mom's house for linner tomorrow at 2pm. Seemed like a good time to get the carrot cake in the oven too, so it's baking now. My ulterior motive is the cleaning ladies come Wednesday, so it's a good time to have flour wafting over kitchen surfaces. My dates bought at Christmas 2017 are starting to crystalize, so I'll get a double batch of date nut bread made before Wednesday too. That will be it for baking until Easter.