7 Pounds
I have lost 7 pounds since Memorial Day.
When Greta and I started this blog I wanted to lose 40 pounds in a year but feared that 40 pounds was an impossible goal. So I told myself 30 pounds lost would be great and would put me at a “normal” weight for my stocky body. Long about March I thought well crap.. I’ve got to be realistic. I began to think 20 pounds by my summer vacation trip where shorts and bathing suits would rear their ugly white heads would be the best I could hope for.
So from January to Memorial Day I’d lost 4 pounds. Yep. I was losing a pound or so a month. A dizzying pace! How would anyone recognize me? But I did think that slow weight loss would mean lasting weight loss (I’ve read that a bazillion times) and I was doing a lifestyle change. I was achieving balance, not going on a fad diet. Fad diets were in my past. I was wise.
That went to hell on Memorial Day. FOUR EFFING POUNDS ISN’T ENOUGH!!! I panicked and I went on a commando diet. Slow rational lifestyle change went out like Jennifer Beales’ leg warmers. I was a maniac. I Atkinsed up. Yep. I’m meat, veggie, jello, egg, cheese right now.
And I’ve lost 7 pounds since Memorial Day. That combined with my previous 4 pounds (wait let me get the calculator) means I’ve lost 11 pounds since the dawn of 2008.
In some respects I feel like a failure. I am not “smoking hot” like I envision when I listen to the radio and imagine my better self turning heads on life’s dance floor. But I am not a failure. 11 pounds isn’t crap. 11 pounds is something and for my vacation in the land of shorts and bathing suits 11 pounds will have to be enough.
Tune in Thursday when I flip out about vacation weight gain.
Im gonna pretend I did *NOT* just read this:
I am not “smoking hot” like I envision when I listen to the radio and imagine my better self turning heads on life’s dance floor
youre doing GREAT and will attract more and more greatness if you think this:
I AM “smoking hot.”
When I listen to the radio I envision myself turning heads on life’s dance floor.
xo xo,
Suzy Sunshine
I think you are doing great, and any time you feel discouraged, pick up a 5 pound bag of flour. It is a lot of weight and mass. Keep it up!
You somehow make Atkins sound like a bad thing, like a last resort. What’s wrong with eating a pound of bacon for breakfast, a pound of bacon for lunch, and a pound of bacon for dinner? (Don’t forget, you can also have a pound of bacon-flavored, sugar-free Jell-O for dessert.
jk… I’ve done Atkins before. Lost over sixty pounds on it. I really like the idea of having two diets in one (which is what it is, when you get right down to it.)
i think i’ll be cleared to start running again by the doctor, and boy do i need to, i’m over my fighting weight right now.
Way to go on the 7 + 4… that’s like over HALF of 20!
Miz Fit you are all positive! I AM Smokin HOT!
Mental – You are so nice too!! I like to think of a bowling ball that’s 8 lbs..
Charlie I think low carb is great but my fear is the REBOUND binge that I’ve experienced in the past. And 60 pounds is inccredible!!
furious I used to love to exercise and can’t right now either but i’m working on changing that it makes such a difference
Jennyonthespot – I didn’t think of it as 1/2 way to 20.. now I’m all in a good mood THANK YOU for the WTG!!
Oh yeah, 7 pounders, like the size of a chihuahua is off your bod!
like Jenny said, 11 is more than half of your goal. That’s fab! I hope you don’t get sick of meat and cheese…will you be able phase back in some fruits soon? Anyhow, keep up your good work and eff the “hot” girls you’re picturing in your mind. They’re all fake anyway. And your sense of humor smokes them all.
OK, those 11 pounds you lost? Somehow they made their way to my house and FOUND ME! I am sending them back to you by FedEx NOW. Humph!
THank you so Much Weighting Game.. I will phase fruits in on vacation.
annbb I changed my address they CANT come back…send them to Nicole Richie
some bowling balls are heavy and i accidentally dropped one on my foot. it is quite painfull~”-
bowling balls are dangerous on the foot if you mishandle it..`-
bowling balls are quite dangerous to the hands of a newbie and untrained bowling player~`-
bowling balls that are coated with an acrylic clearcoat are the nice ones ,