246, down from 247.25 yesterday.
That's a total of 10 pounds lost! I started the reducing diet at 256. I won't reward myself now (except for Feeling Really Good); I'll wait until the scales dip below 240, which is my next stated goal. But I have to decide what to reward myself with ... hmmm. It can't be food-related, so dinner and a movie is not an option. I'm keeping my rewards to under $50 until I reach my goal. That means no massage as reward and no overnight in the Glen Suite at Glen Sanders Mansion ... yet.
I think we're talking about a day trip to Smith College for a reward to walk down memory lane (Smith is my alma mater) and see the botanical gardens begin to spring forth. Smith is lovely in the spring. It'll be April by the time I lose those next 6.1 pounds and spring will be much more in the air than it is now.
Got my labs back yesterday from the bloodwork for my physical. My lipid panel is going down pretty dramatically WITHOUT statins, thank you, but my A1C is 5.9, up from 5.7 last year. Well, with any luck the weight loss will help that go down, too. I am NOT interested in getting diabetes; no thank you. Anything below 5.7 is okay, but 5.9 is creeping up in the pre-diabetes range. I'm not happy about that.
Before I reward myself at all, though, I have a small construction project to finish up. I'm putting ceiling tile up on my office ceiling. That means I must find a way to take down the ceiling fan (with its stripped screws ... maybe Mick will help with that?) and I must chalk the lines (I can do that without taking down the ceiling fan, but I have to move furniture) to do it. I must also do the needed wall repair (fill cracks and properly fill the two holes in the wall that I dug in an attempt to fill cracks) and take down the frame for the dropped ceiling I took out (in October) and paint in here before I will put up a new ceiling. That MUST be done before I give myself any more rewards. There's my weekend project for the next couple of weeks....
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