Entries from December 2007

Weee!

Date December 27, 2007

Day two on plan.
Well, I had a granola bar in the car but it was that or like totally pass out.
And my jogger/rebounder/trampoline arrived today! It’s pretty hilarious.
I weighed 213.6 in my jeans this morning (I forgot to weigh myself before I got dressed, and I was almost out the door.) I should take the […]

Old me, new me

Date December 26, 2007

Full day on plan today.
I know. WHAT?
I think this is my first day on plan since, I don’t know, Halloween? November sometime?
I’m so bored with cheating–even part-time. I was feeling super sluggish and tired. Besides that there are no chocolate chip cookies in the house anymore, so what’s the point?

Everything in moderation except living

Date December 22, 2007

I have no appointments between now and the new year, so I changed to my 2008 calendar today. I thumbed back through the months, where I wrote my weight for each week in Saturday’s box. In the first week of January this year, I had lost just over 63 pounds.
That means, for this year, if […]

I promise I care

Date December 20, 2007

I haven’t journaled food or made effort to count calories in weeks. I weigh 212.
I’ve been eating anything I want, really, even spaghetti and gingerbread cookies, so long as I eat something because I want it and when I am truly hungry. Geneen Roth has taught me to eat when I am hungry and to […]

New obsessions

Date December 17, 2007

New mindless eating alternative: mindless adding of things to my Amazon wishlist.  I can always find things I want. The only thing I might like more than eating is shopping?
Also: episodes of You Are What You Eat on my DVR every weekday. I am in love with Gillian McKeith and her ideas and crazy-talk. I […]

A [Christmas] gift and a curse

Date December 5, 2007

Tonight I will be sleeping in pink Hello Kitty pajamas–a woman’s size large.
…while weighing 213.

I have lots of negative things to say about myself, but…

Date December 3, 2007

I look smaller when I look at myself in the mirror today.
Like, “wow” smaller.
Particularly my thighs… which is just… wacky.
Maybe this happens every once in a while when you spend most of your life trying not to look at yourself…