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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I know I shouldn’t do midweek weigh-ins, but I did and it was fun and encouraging and a whole pound! According to this morning’s scale reading I’m down to 163.7, we’ll see if that holds up until Sunday, but […]

Today was not a great day. Jered and I put our favorite cat, Floyd, to sleep today at 4:30. He had been sick for a while and improved for a little while but then got progressively worse. He went from over 14 pounds to weighing just 8 pounds. It was so hard to let him […]

I wasn’t expecting a loss this week- with Busch Gardens yesterday and dinner at the Blue Talon, a local French bistro, I was expecting a minimal, even undetectable loss. But no! I lost 1.2 pounds this week! It seems I’m back on track.
Yesterday Jered and I went for a short bike ride (only an hour, […]

It hasn’t been a tough week for other stuff in my life, but I’ve had a really hard time staying on track with my weight loss. Ever since the little gain last week I’ve felt hungrier- on the brink of falling off the horse. I’ve done relatively well- still have over 15 flex points left […]

I can’t get the Target commercial song out of my head! We are at home watching tv- some show about catching 419 scammers. Jered says that this will get people killed because now grannies and bored kids will try to catch their own scammers and they will get shot in seedy hotel rooms. So hear […]

The conference went okay, but I got a little off track and eventually caved to a Charleston Chew and some Now and Laters. Oh and then there was the pizza we had for dinner last night. Ugh. I am actually surprised my gain was only .6 pounds- I thought it might be more, but I […]

We made it safely to D.C. and our hotel is fantastic. We are staying at the Helix and it’s everything I hoped for and more- nice and kitschy! After a bit of traffic yesterday we made it in before 7 pm and found us a spot for dinner. There are plenty of cute restaurants […]

I’m headed up for the psychotherapy networker conference in D.C. this afternoon. One of my friends and I reserved a room at the Hotel Helix and we are driving up this afternoon to get there before the conference starts tomorrow.
Before I leave today I need to get a few more chores done around the house […]

I haven’t been on the scale since Sunday, but I know I’m losing like crazy because my newish black corduroys don’t fit. I need a new belt too. What a great feeling.
I spent this morning working on my three sections of a research proposal we’re doing for one of our classes. So far I’m up […]

The fourth week of WW has come and gone, and much to my surprise I lost 3.2 pounds this week! I’m surprised because I hadn’t been feeling all that great this week and dipped pretty heavily into my flex points almost every day. With all said and done I had 12 flex points left at […]