Been away too long...

The past week and a half has been insane. I took the last of the PRAXIS exams (go to my other blog if need be...), kept applying for teaching jobs, AND got another interview. My diet was good, but not great. I lost one more pound; that puts me at a weight loss of 12 total. I'm getting there...

No Rain on my Parade!

I'm back from my 2 day jaunt on Long Island and I'm proud to say that I lost a pound. And I wasn't even trying!!! From the time I got picked up from the Port Jefferson ferry, Simone and I never STOPPED TALKING! We're talking 25 years of catching up to do. We went back to her house and chatted for hours, never feeling hungry!

I did have a banana before we left to the night club where the Mixer was being held. I never made it to the bar! My poor arms were being pulled left and right. And sadly, I couldn't recognize half the people, although they had no problem recognizing me. All I heard was, "You haven't changed a bit!" And I kept asking, "Is that a good thing or a bad thing?". I think it was a good thing...I do have great skin for 47!

So, no food AND no wine! But what an adrenaline rush I was on the entire evening! It truly was so much fun.

I went for brunch the next day and ordered an omelet. I barely made it through half of it. Is this my tummy shrinking or mind over matter? Who cares right? As long as the weight keeps coming off!

This is why I diet...

I've been watching the updates on Billy Robbins on TLC. His mother should be shot; she's the one that enabled this behavior. He weighed at his heaviest 1000 pounds! He's had Gastric Bypass surgery and now weighs about 660. He's only 19...what a shame. Pray for him, will ya?

They don't make swimsuits like they used to!

I could wear one of these! Maybe even win a contest like the one on the right~LOL!

I'm going to Long Island this Sat.; I'm crossing the Long Island Sound by ferry going from Bridgeport, CT to Port Jefferson, LI. I'm staying with a friend that I haven't seen in about 25 years! We're going to a Mixer Reunion with graduates from Deer Park HS classes 1973-1981. This should be a riot, but the food is going to be a tough one for me. And the alcohol. Wish me luck!

OK...I'm pissed!

When I went to the gym today, I weighed myself. It was a scale like the one above. See how the thingy on the right is not centered? Well it wasn't on the day that I started all this either. When I questioned the trainer about it, she told me that the scale was calibrated that morning and not to worry. But being the educated woman that I am, in the back of my mind, I questioned it.

Move forward to today. I go to the gym and the scale was calibrated again. Except this time, the thingy was where it was suppose to be...centered. So I got on the scale and gained 5 pounds. NOT!!! I was furious! Not that the scale said that I gained 5 pounds, but because I don't have the accurate starting weight.

So after my workout, I came home and dug the ole reliable scale out of one of the boxes that we hadn't unpacked yet. Gary calibrated it. Yep, he set a 40 pound bag of wood stove pellets on it and it said 40 pounds. So, I got up on it. Nope, it didn't say 40 pounds, it said 170. So this is what I'm believing. There ain't no way, after eating rabbit food all week, that I weigh more than when I started!

So I'm going to leave the starting weight where it was and just move forward using the scale I own. If that's the case, then I lost 4 pounds. C'est la vie!

What a great diet!

Sometimes I have more fun making the digital art than I do the writing. Look how great I look already...and in just one week!

I didn't go to the gym today, but I am going tomorrow morning. I'm also going to weigh myself. I'm nervous; I've been extremely careful, but diets never work for me quickly like they do for other people. So, I'll just grin and bear whatever the news is. As long as the weight is going DOWN!

Imagine...

I went to the gym again this morning and the entire time I was doing those torturous arm machines, I kept thinking to myself...
and of course it wouldn't hurt havina g a body like the one above. I just keep pushing on...