Life, Love, and Critters – of course!
Five is the answer to the question you have all been asking yourselves for weeks:
“How many bite sized butterfingers WILL she eat after the no-candy promise is over?”
I know you were wondering.
Also, because you need to know, I stockpiled them in the freezer. And I have two left.
For now.
Is a replay of last Monday really necessary?
Really?
Still love ya,
Me.
(Apparently, the hospital didn’t give me the barrage of drugs they should have, so my treatment, cut short, didn’t cure my bladder infection 100%. Now I shall enjoy frequent and fluorescent trips to the ladies room along with 10 more days worth of horse pills. Yipee!)
P.S. Last night, I had a dream that my employer was filing bankruptcy so I went out to get a new job, and when I met the woman who was interviewing me she was rushed and crazy and as I was following her down a hallway talking to her about how qualified I am, I heard someone make a monkey noise “ooh ooh ooh – aah aah aah!” so I made the noise back.
Apparently, that made me qualified for the job. She was quite impressed with my monkey noises and hired me on the spot.
Hi, God. It’s me again. I just wanted to check in and review the day yesterday, because I’m a little concerned that I’m not “getting it”. I’m sure there’s a lesson to be learned in here somewhere, so if you’d just kindly point that out along the way, I’d really appreciate that.
It started off with a miserable headache, which is normal for a Monday, so you didn’t really shock me with that one. You know how I am when you throw two girly girl voices whining and bickering at the crack of dawn with the “boom boom boom” you had going on in my head, so I think the short temper was warranted, don’t you? I was thinking I had a free pass on that one.
Weight Watchers Weekly Weigh-in #12!
This week, you get a fancy photo I took of myself last week (my sister requested demanded it) It seems awfully snotty to post a picture of myself, but man – I haven’t had the self esteem to post a “full body” shot online for a long time. I’m okay with it now, even though I’m not at my goal yet.
I guess my point in even showing you is to (hopefully) inspire you, or motivate you, or encourage you to keep going. It’s hard for me to believe that girl in the pic is me, that those abs are mine – even that my hair has grown that much! It does happen though, with persistence and knowledge and just treating yourself to a better meal, and better snacks. It’s not my intent to brag (to the point of arrogance, at least), so don’t be thinking that I think I’m “all that” – I don’t. I’m just at a place, finally, where I can accept myself and my weight and be comfortable in my own skin.
It’s not easy to accomplish, but the rewards – so worth it. As is my Monday ritual – here are my results thus far on the Weight Watchers Core plan:
Today is a great day, and it has everything to do with that little thumbnail to the left. That is a screenshot of my CalorieKing.com Diet Diary from yesterday (click it to see it full size).
Yesterday I made awesome choices. I was full all day, and I snacked when I felt hungry.
Today, I’ve broken into the 150’s again. Now I’ll say what I weigh. Now I’m not ashamed anymore. 158.4. I haven’t weighed this (much/little) in at least 12 years. Seriously. I don’t have too far to go to meet my goal now, my realistic goal is 155, and my dream goal is 140. I don’t intend to “stop” when I get to my goal, because look at that menu! I ate a lot of satisfying, healthy food yesterday and it was good. I made the right choices and it showed up on the scale this morning.
Aaaah. :sigh of contentment:
It’s about dang time.
Weight Watchers Weekly Weigh-in #11!
A really surprising week for me, honestly, because I had a disappointing meal or two where I thought I made good choices but it turned out that they weren’t as good as I thought. Thankfully, eating all the goodness the rest of the week kept my metabolism in check and burning my poor choices away along with a little bit of excess baggage. Yay For Core!!
In case you didn’t catch it, here’s that post I wrote about How to Lose Weight the Right Way. I’m seeing a lot of people talking about diets and dieting, and for me – it’s not about a diet. Diets are temporary things, you go on them, you go off of them. If you want to be successful, you have to re-learn and re-train yourself. You have to be prepared to permanently change your way of thinking about food. In order to do that, you have to study food and the components your body needs for fuel. I said in my comments on that post that you have to eat for your body, not for your social or emotional needs. Learning how to do that is absolutely key in continued health and maintaining/achieving a healthy and natural weight for your body.
If you can’t tell, I’m really drawn to nutrition education and it’s weighing heavily on my mind and heart to further my education and become a Certified Nutritionist.
Without further adieu, here are the results of my educating myself on nutrition and eating natural goodness:
2nd week: -4.2 lbs.
3rd week: -1.6 lbs.
4th week: -2.4 lbs.
5th week: -.8 lbs.
6th week: -2.6 lbs.
7th week: -1.2 lbs.
8th week: -2.2 lbs.
9th week: -1 lbs.
10th week: -.2 lbs.
* * 11th week: -.6 lbs. * *
Total to date: -21.4 lbs.
