Celebrate Good Times, Come On!

I made it! 124.3lbs. this morning!! I am beyond excited, you have no idea. Finally, finally, finally, my low intakes are making their mark on my weight. Just last week I was wondering if my body was ever going to let go of this weight it was clinging to with a death grip, and now it has finally reached the tipping point. It is so much easier now, too, because I love seeing lower numbers on the scale every morning, so it encourages me to eat less and relish in my hunger.

I was so proud of myself at the fair, because I avoided most of the food temptations. The biggest help was my gluten allergy, because most things were off-limits, so it seemed a little too easy, in fact! I did have two dark chocolate chocolate covered strawberries, a handful of kettle corn (popcorn popped with salt and sugar, so it is salty and sweet at the same time), and frozen custard. Frozen custard is as low-cal as frozen yogurt is, but it is twice as creamy, which is so much better :) I didn't have anything else for the whole day, and when I got home I was so exhausted that I was literally too tired to even think about getting myself something to eat.

The fair was a lot of fun, thank you for all the well wishes! We looked at all the animals, and my favorite were the cows :) My plan is to live in the country, and own a Jersey cow for a pet. I would dry her off, though (which means I wouldn't milk her, so she would actually stop producing it after about a week of not milking her, hence the 'drying off') so then I wouldn't have to deal with milking her every day! I love Jerseys, they are so cute, with their big brown eyes and how petite they are (well, compared to Holsteins lol; a Jersey still weighs 900-1000 lbs!). My friends ate themselves silly, except for W, of course. Her tactic of handling the fair food, since she can't claim some allergy, was actually very admirable. She always had some sort of food in her hand, but she only ever ate a 1/4 of it, and then would either give it to someone else or would just throw it away. She had a cinnamon-sugar soft pretzel when we got there, but gave the rest of it away, then got a piece of Sicilian pizza (thick crust) and took a few bites but threw the rest away. Then she got a frozen custard with me, but only finished between 1/4 - 1/2 of it, and threw away the rest. That is the way to do it, in my opinion. She still got to eat what she wanted, but she exercised complete control over how much she ate, so she didn't overeat.

Last night, K told me she has to work this morning, which sucks for her because they changed our class schedule this morning, so class doesn't start until 10am. She had to be at work from 7:20 to 8am this morning! The thing I found so funny, though, was she figured out a way to "make it worth her while". She started saying that since she "hasn't started her diet plan yet"... and here I expected her to say that she was going to go to the gym after work until class started. Well, she basically said the exact opposite. She told me she was going to go to McDonald's and get a breakfast sandwich! I almost threw up a little in my mouth. Those things are so greasy and nasty. She was pretty excited about it, though, so whatever.

Well, I have got to get ready for class and make some yummy coffee!

Love you, Skinnies :)

~Sottile

P.S. - Lyndee had asked me in a comment on my last post what scale I use. I use a Weight Watchers scale that I got from Target. I don't know the model number or if it even has one, but I think it was around $30. It's pretty nice, but the only thing I don't like about it is that it has a memory, so it sometimes can tell you the same weight as the last time you weighed. To get around this, I hold a big bottle of lotion (it weighs two pounds) when I weigh the first time, to mix up the scale, and then the second time I put the lotion down and the scale gives me my true reading. I have never had a problem using this tactic. So if any of your scales have a weight memory, you could try using this way of weighing!