More Than Ever Before

A lifetime ago...I can't even remember when, but it was before I had kids...and before I quit smoking in anticipation of having kids (I know this because when I quit smoking my weight BALLOONED, unchecked), so let's say 1997 or 1998 or thereabouts...I lost 67 pounds on Weight Watchers. I weighed less back then...at my lowest in this period I think I probably was probably around 160.

Anyway...I've lost more now than I ever have before! Sixty-nine pounds, yeah baby! (I held off posting yesterday because I was tied at 67 pounds, then the scale decided this morning that I deserved a two-pound loss overnight, haha. A note to other WLS patients, my doctor says this five-pound rapid drop followed by a week or more at the same weight is very classic. So I hit my Onederland mark, then my weight just hung out there, then it went up a few pounds because I now experience the magic of the monthly menstruation cycle (weak cheer). And now the pounds are dropping again, I'm experiencing my quick five-ish pound loss. Needless to say, these are my favorite days, haha. :)

So exciting. The other day I ran in the parking lot with my five-year-old and could not keep my pants up! The same pants that were a bit too smallish when I started yoga and so they tended to want to roll up under my belly.

I should check in here and admit that I have scrapped yoga and deep water aerobics. Sigh. I lost all momentum when we had to re-jigger the custody schedule to accommodate my ex's vacation (I am trying not to grouse here because he also freely traded weekends with me to accommodate my trip to see Kim in a couple weeks), and then I had a couple pre-planned events that conflicted with the classes, etc. I am satisfied with this right now and will figure out how to reincorporate these fun activities. But happily, just my general activity level is up, up, up. I am feeling really great.

My food intake is such that I have wondered a bit what life will be like at goal. A silly thing to worry about right now! But I did think about it when I was realized how little I actually eat. When you're at goal, do you just eat these little tiny meals constantly to avoid losing weight? Ah, what a terrible problem that will be. ;) (Okay, this issue is a little thought-provoking to me, but as an aside, who read Stephen King's "Thinner"? You know where he wants, more than anything, to be thinner, until he's cursed by a gypsy - with a strawberry pie - and he gets thinner, and thinner, and thinner...[I am completely mangling the story, but you get the idea.])

Thinner. Come what may, I am in the heyday of feeling thinner, and I

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