Yesterday and today have been really good days for me, mentally.  I don't know what it was... maybe someone slipped happy drugs in my tap water or something.  In any event, I've just been in a really good mood.  I've been so cheerful, and it's been really easy for me to stick to my diet and exercise plan.  It's like magic ( Read more... )

Well, amazingly, I have continued to lose weight.  My short-term goal for the week was to keep myself under control and not to give myself anything that I would regret, which... really didn't happen.  I had so many days this week where I just lost it.  I'm stressing out pretty bad right now, and there were just so many occasions where it was easy ( Read more... )

Saturday morning weigh in: 213 pounds, which is two pounds down from last week and makes a total of 35 pounds since I began eight weeks ago.

I guess that means my weight loss is becoming less... terrifyingly fast.  I mean, it was great to be able to count on being able to see a big difference, but since it wasn't what I was aiming for it was kind ( Read more... )

Well, I weighed myself today - Saturday mornings seems like a good time to do this.  I can lounge around and build up my courage, and so on.  I didn't weigh myself last weekend, because I was in Canada.... I was afraid of this morning, because last weekend was pretty damaging to the whole weight-loss effort.  I kept imagining all those goodies ( Read more... )

This weekend I went home for Thanksgiving (Canadian Thanksgiving, naturally).  It was kind of a last-minute decision to go, and this was the first time in four years that I've managed it.  My schedule is just a lot better this year, and I didn't get to spend a lot of time with my family this summer so I thought it would be nice.  I was really only ( Read more... )

As of today, I am officially no longer a size 20 ( Read more... )

It's September 23rd, which means it's been one month since I had that horrible, informative, epiphan-tastic visit to the doctor's.  I have no idea what I weigh right now - I feel like I've lost a lot of weight, like I've made a lot of progress.  I can measure my progress in so many terms:

• my clothes all fit so much more loosely now.  There are jeans ( Read more... )

The whole mood/lemon thingummy is just woefully inadequate.  I was trying to find something that would capture my mood right now... there's nothing under "panicked"... there's nothing under "freaking out"... there's nothing under "burnt out"... there's nothing under "fed up and exhausted and ready to pack it all in"... there's not even anything ( Read more... )

Grr.  I woke up this morning with a sore throat.  Crap.  It's way too early in the semester for me to fall behind, and I really don't want to be sick right now.  But as the day progressed I just kept getting worse, until I was a dribbly, sore, gross, mouth-breathing mess.  I still walked to and from school, but there's no way I'm getting on the ( Read more... )

Aargh.  I've had two full days back at school and I'm exhausted.  I always forget how tiring this is.

I'm going to make a list of four things I did/thought/noticed today that I'm proud of:

• I've decided that I'm not going to take the bus to work any more.  Last year, I always took the bus to work in the morning, and maybe half the time I would take ( Read more... )