The More I Promised Later (still without pictures)
There are about a gazillion pictures of my lovely new dress out there, but can I figure out how to embed or link to one? EPIC FAIL. Will get Thomas's help later.
The weight's really been getting to me lately--some years and a good 20 pounds ago I tested with borderline sleep apnea, and lately my sleep's been particularly difficult. Even before Anniversary I started jumping through the hoops Kaiser requires to get into their Optifast program, and I started on Optifast eight days ago.
Optifast is an 800-calorie, medically-supervised, liquid-meal-replacement diet. So far, I have been surprisingly not hungry, and in the first week I lost 4.8 pounds. (Two to three pounds is more usual. They say we won't know what typical loss is like till the second month.) I'm hoping to lose 80 pounds, though I will settle for 70. In any case, I'm going to be at this for a while. Expect lots of whimpering through Christmas.
Gotta run again.