Squish :)

You know when you were younger and you would look at someone far away and pretend to squish their head with your fingers holding them up close to your eye? (I have a distinct memory of a very skinny mean girl from school saying to a very large me "I'm squishing your head. I'm squishing your head" over & over)

Anyway, I feel like that's what I"m doing to my weight loss.

I'm squishing it.

I'm squishing the distance between my current weight & my goal weight. I'm getting further from my start weight and that 10% line (207 lbs) that I had passed in July and sloping down further towards my next 10% of 186. I feel like shouting at the screen "I'm squishing you weight! Ha!!"

In fact...
Take that weight!

Take that tight clothes

Take that mean girl from school!

Squish.

That was rather gratifying :)

Until next time

Starry night

I went to the meeting tonight. It turns out I did overestimate a bit, but I did hit the 10 lb. mark exactly because I'm down another pound. Not too shabby :) And a 5lb star.

And then I had an excellent walk around Irvington with my downstairs neighbor (new friend YAY) planning out our summer walks. She called me yesterday to ask if we could be walking partners. Just a day after I was thinking of posting an ad in our complex for one. It's funny how these things happen :)

Now I'm trying to get tickets to the Sex & the City movie for tomorrow night. I wish I was as successful as my weigh in was.

Yay

Correction

Make that 77 stars.

Wicked.

Weigh-ins Rock! Bravo!

Okay--well they did this week. So I'm down another 1.8 lbs, which brings me to 9lbs overall. So it's taking me a little longer than I had hoped to make it to the 10lb mark, but I am not complaining.

And yesterday I skipped my last meditation class to actually stay for the meeting. I did this for two reasons...one, I was just not feeling dealing with the group or pretending to have meditated during the week for one lousy class which I obviously have been slacking on...And two, the topic of the WW meeting was getting through the holidays & parties, which with Birthday season here, and labor day weekend, I definitely needed this meeting.

And although it wasn't quite what I had hoped for in terms of discussion, it did give me some ideas. I'm going to be researching some guilt free cakes & stuff for celebrating birthdays, including mine on Thursday, and my dad's and some other friends. That way I can have my dessert & not be racking up the points.

The best part of yesterday's meeting though was the end when the leader goes around asking about people's successes for the week and giving out little "Bravo" star stickers. And since I had a good week both weigh-in wise & portioning & activity wise, I raised my hand, and attributed it to the fact that I started a blog (yay me!) tracking my progress and highlighting the Tools for Success. Well--she was so excited about this that she gave me a whole STRIP of stars (seriously, there must be about 40) for using the tools. Go me.

So tomorrow I plan to highlight the next tool for success. I had mentioned "Empowering Beliefs," but I might pick another one...just to spice things up :) Plus something more appropriate for my state of mind at the moment. We'll see.

Until next time!