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Week 9: 22 Pounds Lost to Date

Weight loss chart - 9 weeks

I’m loving me some Weight Watchers today. :o) I was sloppy this past week in keeping track of what I ate, but apparently I ate light enough. I lost another 3.4 pounds. Woot!

Favorite food this week: El Presidente fat-free feta cheese, tomato with basil flavoring. Perfecto for my salads.

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August 12, 2008   2 Comments

Control Is an Illusion Anyway

Let’s see how life has been at the Bahm Shelter lately:

My OB/GYN confirmed with a blood test that I’m smack dab in the middle of menopause. Now I didn’t particularly want to have any more children, and I don’t particularly want to be 20 again (even though babies smell delicious and I miss my abs), but this was not welcome confirmation. I am losing possibilities.

For the next year or two while a new building is going up, my work group moved to a new location in a … what would you call it tactfully? … low-income urban area with an intimate familiarity with sirens and blue lights. I’m leaving my nice jewelry at home these days because I don’t want to be mugged in the parking lot.

I blew three days on my diet, starting with not reading the menu carefully at a friend’s birthday celebration and eating the food anyway (oh GOD the Fuji rolls were good at the sushi house — best damned fried tidbits stuffed with cream cheese I’ve ever eaten). In the only good news of the day, I still managed to lose 4.8 pounds this week somehow. Guess all the guilt I suffered the rest of the week made up for a few excesses.

And the worst of all, I really can’t talk about in detail yet because I have an icepick in my heart and a 1,000-pound weight on my chest. My 18-year-old moved out to live with her 21-year-old lover and (I hope) attend college over there in another state. She called as she was leaving, while I was at work today. She is tired of being treated like a child and wants to pursue her dreams. I was flabbergasted, but I managed to tell her I was terribly sad she didn’t think she could talk to me openly, and I told her I loved her and hope she stays safe and happy. I said I believe she’s making a mistake by walking away from $35,000 in college scholarships (one was recently increased). But I also said it was her mistake to make.

I really don’t know what to do with the rest of the night, to be honest. Or this week. Or this year.

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July 28, 2008   2 Comments

Week 5: I Spy a Teeny-Weeny Weight Loss

kid with magnifying glass

Get out your magnifying glasses if you want to see this week’s weight loss, which took me down to 251.6 lbs. Although it *is* a downward trend, it’s a not-so-whopping 0.6 lb.

According to SensibleUnits.com, that’s the equivalent of:

  • 36 one-euro coins, or
  • 25 USB flash drives, or
  • 5.9 golf balls, or
  • 1.9 wireless computer mice

Hmmpf. I and my nearly 6 golf balls of major, major weight loss will work harder this week.

In the good news department, I was desperate for clean clothes this morning and grabbed some “too small” pants from the skinny-clothes side of my closet, resigned to an uncomfortable day of chafed thighs and a pinched waist. But what do you know … they fit. (Okay, size 22 isn’t exactly skinny. But it’s a noticeable difference from size 26, which is what I’ve been wearing. W00t!)

Photo credit: dsb nola

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July 21, 2008   1 Comment