A Long Weight!

Good morning all!

I've lost more weight! I am now a slender 312- WOOHOO! Bikini, here we come!

Okay, not a bikini- I don't think I would consider wearing one of those things even if I was rail-thin! But my clothes are feeling a little more loose, and that means I am losing inches as well! Feels good to be me right now.

I'm finding out I'm not hungry for an official breakfast anymore. I'm up before the crack of dawn (at least in Autumn), and I now have brunch around 10:00. Sometimes I get hungry before that and have a piece of fruit before I walk to school with my daughter. It feels good not to be full when I walk- I feel skinnier!

I've been walking regularly with her this past week and I can still feel the burn in my calves, though it isn't as prominent as before. Today was rainy so I drove, but I'll be expending that walking energy into getting the house cleaned up a little.

I miss those walks when it rains- we get to spend time talking without her big brother interrupting every 3.2 seconds not that he's in middle school and takes a bus. We both enjoy our 'girl time' and do a little nature appreciation too.

Last night I made pan-fried lemon pepper talapia. Yum! This is the only fish the entire family likes, and they polished off every scrap. I was hoping for some leftovers for lunch..er..brunch, but I was very happy to see how much they enjoyed it. I like shrimp too, and I think I have some in the freezer. Shrimp salad is a personal favorite, but I hate cutting up nice big shrimp! It seems like I'm cheating myself- I could have gotten popcorn shrimp and done the same thing- so maybe I'll stir fry instead. I'll ask my belly what it wants later. :)

The hardest trial at the moment seems to be not eating when everyone else is having a snack. I wasn't hungry (we just had dinner an hour or so before), and yet there I was, grabbing a handful or two of snacky stuff I really didn't need- only because my husband was eating it. Bad habits die hard, and good habits are hard to get. Life if full of irony- isn't it?

Patience is hard too- it took me eons to gain all of this, and it seems to take forever to lose it. When I feel that way I have to remind myself that I'm actually losing it faster, though it might not seem that way at the time. If it took me twenty years to gain it (not including other dieting methods), and it takes me ten years to lose it, I'm still ahead. So what's two years? Ten times as fast to lose it than to gain it, that's what! I think I can handle that.

If you're following me to lose weight, all I have to say is Keep Going. Don't let get you down. Get right back on track and start over. You can do it!