Weighing In 7/1/2017

It's been a couple of days. Last time I actually weighed in was 6/28, when I weighed 223.25. I'm down 2 lb from that today, at 221.25.

It's measurements and pictures day.

	14-Mar	1-Jun	1-Jul	Month Difference	Total Difference
Weight	256	226	221.25	4.75	34.75
Bust	49.5	46	45	1	4.5
Waist	51	45	45	0	6
Hips	48	44.5	43.5	1	4.5
Upper Arm L	15	13.5	12.75	0.75	2.25
Upper Arm R	15	13	13	0	2
Mid-Thigh L	23	20.25	20.5	-0.25	2.5
Mid-Thigh R	25	21	21.5	-0.5	3.5
Calf L	16	15	15	0	1
Calf R	16	15.25	15	0.25	1
Inches Lost	258.5	25	27.25	-2.25

The kickstart to the weight loss is the mile-long walks I now take in the decent weather. I didn't walk last night because it was DUMPING rain, but I'll walk this morning before my violin lesson (I'm starting violin lessons today!). That will kickstart the inches to melt off, too. That said, I've lost a total of 27.25 inches since mid-March; that's not half bad. I didn't do well in June, but that's okay; June is done, it's now July, and I move forward having learned from mistakes and without beating myself up.

Pictures. I'm still a candied apple on two stilts. Well, that's changing. Slowly, but it's changing:

One of the most attractive things in the world is an fat old lady in her undies. Well, sorry. I tried a swimsuit last month, but the swimsuit has structure in it that prevents really watching the changing body, so we're back to the undies. 

Weighing In 6/1/2017

226, down from yesterday's 228. Heading in the right direction again! Yay for egg/grapefruit day yesterday!

It's the first of the month: time for recap, measurements and pictures.

In May, weight loss slowed to a crawl, but it still crawled in the right direction (for the most part). I lost 7.5 lb since 1 May rather than the wonted 10 lb, but hey; I'll take it. I've lost 30 lb exactly since I started in March. I've lost a total of 25 inches since starting out, 9.75 of which I lost in May.

It's slow progress, but it's progress.

To bump it up this month, now that summer is essentially here, I will walk ... and walk ... and walk. I will also get started with the Callanetics. I will continue the PT stretches, but I think I'll slow the visits down to 1x/week. I have other things I can do with that $46/visit!

Measurements:

	14-Mar	1-May	1-Jun	Month Difference	Total Difference
Weight	256	233.5	226	7.5	30
Bust	49.5	47.75	46	1.75	3.5
Waist	51	48.25	45	3.25	6
Hips	48	45	44.5	0.5	3.5
Upper Arm L	15	13	13.5	-0.5	1.5
Upper Arm R	15	13.5	13	0.5	2
Mid-Thigh L	23	22.25	20.25	2	2.75
Mid-Thigh R	25	22.25	21	1.25	4
Calf L	16	15.25	15	0.25	1
Calf R	16	16	15.25	0.75	0.75
Inches Lost	258.5	15.25	25	-9.75

And pictures:

As you see, I'm still a candied apple on two sticks, but it IS less than it was.

Weighing In 5/1/2017

233.5, no change from yesterday's 233.5, and that's fine.

I'm having company for the next two days; my gentleman caller is coming down from Malone to visit and watch me get my SBA Small Business Excellence award tomorrow! I'm really looking forward to his visit! We'll do many fun things ... including going out to eat. Well, I've got my food all planned out. If we go to the Van Dyck, I shall have a Caesar salad with shrimp, dressing on the side. That one's easy. If we go to the Thai Thai, I shall have sashimi deluxe (which comes with miso soup). Anywhere else, I shall look up their menus online and make the appropriate decision before going.

Tomorrow, though, I'm planning to eat badly. First comes the luncheon; I have no idea what is being served, but I shall avoid dessert. Then for tomorrow evening I have ribeye steaks marinating in the fridge. Those are absolutely NOT on this lifestyle, especially not with that salty (soy sauce) marinade they're in, and I might put on a pound or two. But on Wednesday, I'll get right back on the wagon. Planning Is Everything.

Oh! I nearly forgot. It's picture and measurement day.

Measurements. I lost 20.25 inches this month, and 37.75 inches overall ... that's not half bad!!

	14-Mar	1-Apr	1-May	Month Difference	Total Difference
Weight	256	243.25	233.5	9.75	22.5
Bust	49.5	48.5	47.75	0.75	1.75
Waist	51	50	48.25	1.75	2.75
Hips	48	47.5	45	2.5	3
Upper Arm L	15	14	13	1	2
Upper Arm R	15	14.5	13.5	1	1.5
Mid-Thigh L	23	23.25	22.25	1	0.75
Mid-Thigh R	25	24	22.25	1.75	2.75
Calf L	16	16	15.25	0.75	0.75
Calf R	16	16	16	0	0
Inches Lost	0			20.25	37.75

Pictures. I'm still a candied apple on two sticks, but at least it's shrinking ... it's shrinking ....

Weighing In 4/1/2017

243.25, down from yesterday's 243.5.

I'll take losing a quarter pound at a time, or less. The goal is to lose 2 pounds per week, 10 pounds per month. That's a healthy, sustainable rate.

And I have a timeline goal. Next May, May 2018, is my 40th college class reunion. I graduated from Smith College in 1978 (hard to believe that was pushing 40 years ago...). This massively excessive weight will be gone by then. It's fine to still be working on losing the last few pounds, but I will NOT show up at my 40th Smith College reunion looking like a blimp. Period.

All the psychologists out there will ask "How do you feel about losing the weight?" And they'd want me to get into my complicated history with food, and it has been a love-hate relationship my whole life. I could go on about how my parents rewarded and punished with food, or about how unhappy I was in my first marriage and that caused me to pile it on, or about the self-hatred that being fat my whole life resulted in, but why? My parents stopped doing that 40 years ago, my first husband died in 2005 (and I had a much better second marriage), I'm learning to love myself after all these years, and it's now time for me to get over it.

Weight loss may be about emotion; I'm certainly happy to be losing the weight, and, yes, I'm impatient for all that excess adipose tissue to be gone. But for me, it's a contract. I can keep the contract with myself and lose the effing weight, or not. I've started this blog before and have dropped the ball and not kept the contract, and that fact pisses me off. It's time to keep the contract. So that's what I'm doing.

It's April 1. It's the first of the month, and the first of each month is my assigned picture and measurements day. Here are pictures of my slimming body; you can't see the "slim" yet, but it's coming. I post these horrors so I can later point to them and say, "Look what I did!" I also post them to remind myself NEVER to come back here; 243.25 lb is a better place than was my starting weight of 256, but it's still not a good place.

And here are today's measurements, compared with the starting measurements. I have lost a total of 17.5 inches since I started!

	14-Mar	1-Apr	Difference
Weight	256	243.25	-12.75
Bust	49.5	48.5	-1
Waist	51	50	-1
Hips	48	47.5	-0.5
Upper Arm L	15	14	-1
Upper Arm R	15	14.5	-0.5
Mid-Thigh L	23	23.25	0.25
Mid-Thigh R	25	24	-1
Calf L	16	16	0
Calf R	16	16	0
Inches Lost			-17.5