Hello 2012

Tue, 1 May 2012 11:11:49 EST

11 months ago. Size 12. 160lbs.

Today. Size 10. 157lbs. Waist a LOT smaller and tummy a bit flatter even though weight and hips seem to be exactly the same. We can blame that on working out consistently even when I don't watch what I eat.

It's been a long time since I've posted on this blog. I was doing pretty well last year u...

Progress Pictures - 4 months

Sat, 2 Apr 2011 17:05:20 EST

Four months in and I'm actually starting to see some real progress. My hips seem to have shrunk the most. I wasn't really expecting that as in the past when I've lost weight most of it came off of my middle at first. I guess that's getting older for you :-( However my famous waistline is making a comeback 224 .

This is me back on December 4 of last year when I started this journey.

Hello April

Sat, 2 Apr 2011 11:39:10 EST

March was a surprisingly successful month. Surprising because even though I only completed one of the three challenges I set myself for this month I met two of my three goals.

I did not use the fitness tracker or the nutrition tracker religiously every single day. In fact I hardly used either one of them at all. If I ate a meal that wasn't one of my usuals I'd put it in the tracker to check out it's nutritional profile but, other than that I pretty much completely avoided the ...

Nothing Tastes as Good as Being Thin Feels?

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:31:18 EST

I sort of feel sorry for whoever said "nothing tastes as good as being thin feels" because the whole food & bev thing is one of the greatest pleasures in my life and to imagine anyone going without that makes me sad. But seriously, how does being thin feel? Maybe I'm a bit odd (OK I'm definitely quite odd) but I'm never aware of my size until I put on a pair of pants and I either can't button them up {boo} or they fall right off my bum {yeah!}. "Being thin" is not a feeling or emotion I've...

Hello March

Tue, 1 Mar 2011 12:43:26 EST

February was one great big giant FAIL. I managed to make it through the December holidays and stay on plan and then BAM! I was hit in the face with Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year is sort of like the Spanish Inquisition in that nobody expects Chinese New Year, unless of course they're Chinese. I didn't have a plan for Chinese New Years and you all know what happens when you fail to plan :-( It was one great big sloppy descent into not just mooncakes and pork buns but all sorts of asian...

20lbs down

Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:05:44 EST

I've finally hit the 20lb lost mark. That's 1/3 of the way to my goal so I should be really happy and planning a big celebration, right? Well maybe not so happy. First off I spent 3 weeks gaining and losing the same .2 lbs before I managed to drop 1.4 this week to finally cross the 20lb barrier. At this point the dear reader is saying "yeah! you beat the 'plateau' and you should be proud" but I'm not. Instead I'm a bit disappointed with myself.

It's like everyday last week I...

Progress Picture - 2 months

Wed, 2 Feb 2011 15:47:07 EST

Argh I don't look very pretty do I. You would think there would be more of a difference since I went from a size 18 to a size 14. I chose the outfit on purpose because it isn't very flattering. The top is still too small (size M) and I should never be seen in tights that are fitted at the ankles. The poses aren't helping either. Can't figure out if I'm supposed to be Twiddle-dum or Twiddle-dee LOL.

Hello February

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 11:44:22 EST

I didn't quite reach my goals for January but, they were overambitious. Reach for the stars and you might just hit the ceiling, right? Lost 4.6 pounds in January which is certainly within the "healthy" range of 1-2 pounds per week. I was just hoping to be closer to the 2 end of 1-2 lbs LOL.

All of january's snowstorms made it difficult to get in as much walking/running as I'd have liked and, to be honest there was a lot of food that didn't make its way onto the tracker. I have ...

Perfect Pants or Bust

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:15:56 EST

Woke up this morning feeling beyond "meh". Didn't feel like working out at all. Had a big bowl of generic rice crispies and felt like having another so I did, along with some ginger snaps and a fiber one bar. Breakfast of champions.

Went to the green market for fresh fruit & veg but pretty much all they had was carrots, turnips, parsnips and beets that most surely had been harvested before thanksgiving and some pretty sad apples and butternut of similar vintage :-( Not at all...

It has been way too long since my last confession

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:51:05 EST

So there I was trying to tally up last night's damage so I can be accountable for it and I suddenly realise that I had TWO full dinners WITH dessert OMFG. We went to sushi of gari and had the tasting menu so I had like 9 pieces of sushi, a 1 ounce cup of sake and a 4 oz glass of beer then Todd ordered dessert behind my back, it was a stack of crepes with creme anglais filling.

Problem with restaurant food is that you never know what's in it. Some of the sushi had mayo and there ...

Two Drinks Ago You Could Still Get Yourself Home

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:25:29 EST

If you live in New York City you've seen the ad. A woman is sitting all askew at the bottom of the subway stairs, drunk and unable to get up. The caption says "Two drinks ago you could still get yourself home". (http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/
OB-LD514_boozew_D_20101202144706.jpg). I know how she feels.

Woke up this morning with a bit of a headache. I was drinking Sake. A lot of sake. In my defense it was all top shelf sake and I wasn't paying but this morning I'...

Notes from "The Bad Place"

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:42:15 EST

I had no business buying those biscuits in the first place. Yes, the tin was very pretty, yes they were half price and yes it is the civilised thing to have tea and biscuits on hand when someone pops over, but the bottom line is a big tin of ginger snaps has no place in the home of a sugar addict.

It was a pretty busy night at work. So busy that I never got around to eating all my snacks. There's still a greek yoghurt and a cup of strawberries sitting in the fridge at work with ...

The fleeting joys of near-sightedness

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:49:00 EST

Got on the scale this morning and looked down after it settled on a number and I swear I saw 184.0! Woo-hoo! Go me! Happy Dance Time! I'll be at goal by my birthday (April) instead of Thanksgiving! Bent over to pick up the scale to put it away (small bathroom) and as my eyes got closer to the display it became quite clear that there was a line running through that 0 and the reading was actually 184.8. It's almost as if the scale was doing a LOLJK on me. Oh well, slow and steady wins the...

Wearing size 14 pants today!

Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:35:04 EST

Who would have thunk that the day would come when I was celebrating fitting into size 14 pants and a 14W at that not even a 14 misses. Way back in the 20th century my size 10 misses pants were my "fat" pants and I'm almost sure a size 10 was smaller then that it is now 246 .

The pants in question fit a bit closer than I'd like around the bum, but not so snugly that it's indecent wearing them in public and six weeks ago I couldn't even buttom them up! I did my initial me...

Christmas come and gone

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:40:34 EST

Just finished up totaling up my Christmas day food. Yes, I did eat so much it took two days to finish writing it down LOL. Actually I kept my little notebook with me and wrote EVERYTHING down but it took a while to get the tally for all the ethnic foods and recipes recorded on the computer.

Grand total for Christmas was 3,300 and odd calories. No, that's not within my calorie range. Boxing day total was 1,637 calories--close to the top end of my range but at least I didn't go o...

The Bane of My Existence: Cupcakes and Rain

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 12:36:30 EST

Yesterday I finished the "fast break" stage and moved on to stage 2. So how do I celebrate that big milestone? At 2AM in the morning I walk into a deli and get Hostess Cupcakes. I then proceed to eat not one but both cupcakes in the package :-( What am I? Six years old? I wasn't even hungry. I guess I had a cupcake shaped hole in my soul {sigh}. Whole sad history of me and hostess orange cupcakes with cream filling going back to my unhappy childhood.

Well what's done is done. ...

One week down-the rest of my life to go

Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:22:37 EST

After one week of circuit workouts, spinning, interval walks and healthy snacks I've lost 4 pounds! Go me 205 ! I know the first week usually brings big results and I don't expect to see 4 pounds gone off the scale every single week but it's very encouraging to see that doing the right thing will lead to the results I want.

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