Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Another WOW moment

I was in Waukon so I thought I'd check out the clearance racks at Pamida. Sparked by my first wow moment, I dared to try on a dress in a size large and...it fit! Okay, so I'm reminded of someone's recent cute post that said, just because you can zip it doesn't mean it fits, so I'll qualify my statement by adding I need a good week and spanx but since I haven't worn a large since junior high and the dress was $7.49, I'm still counting it as a WOW moment!

First WOW moment

A week or so before surgery, I lost my driver's license. I had no idea where it could be but between surgery, the end of the semester, and lots of traveling around the Midwest, I just didn't get around to taking a trip to the county seat to get a new one. Finally today I went in. the woman asked for some basic information and then asked if my height and weight were the same as the last one. I said I really had no idea what was on the last one but she could just keep it the same. She had me fill out a form and she took it to her desk. A few minutes later she came back to the desk and asked, "how much do you weigh?" I said, 195 or so. She responded, "I knew there was no way you weighed that much!" I still don't know how much was on my last license, but it really doesn't matter, does it!

Friday, June 19, 2009

I'm in ONEderland!

I've been enjoying summer and not been home much so I haven't been able to weigh in daily, so you can imagine my surprise and joy when this morning the scale said 199!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Weekend Weigh-down

A graduation party and a cookout and I'm still down another couple of pounds. We've been traveling every weekend. I don't know if it is the travel or the fact that it is the weekend, or a combination of both (most likely) but I seem to get off track. I think part of it is I don't log my food day ahead of time on the weekends. I just log when I get home and see the "damage." I still get my protein in--but way too much fat. In fact, yesterday I had 50% fat 12% carb and 33% protein. So, I had an orange to up the carb percentage and knock the fat down a bit but that didn't change the grams of fat I consumed. Those percentages are really pretty helpful for keeping me honest. Since I'm only eating 7oo-900 calories a day, if I only looked at grams, I could get by with more--48 grams of fat in a day would have been a victory on a 2000/day calorie diet.

I have now lost 35% of my excess body weight.