When I woke up this morning, I was not pleased about the arrival of Weight Loss Wednesday. When I got on the scale, I was on the verge of tears over it being Weight Loss Wednesday. However, after Luke read the numbers, I was suddently quite joyous because, hey! It's Weight Loss Wednesday! Now with actual loss!
LAST WEEK'S WEIGHT: 139
CURRENT WEIGHT: 137
POUNDS TO GOAL WEIGHT: 12
Is it wrong to want to celebrate this achievement with a banana split? I'm thinking yes.
Because things are so busy at work, I'm taking this week off from the Y to wrap up some loose ends and delight in an extra thirty minutes of sleep each day, so I'm both surprised and glad to see this change in plan hasn't materialized on the scale. It also helped that I depleted my corporate stash of pretzel logs and granola bars last week. (Did you know I can eat an entire bag of logs and four trail mix squares in one day? I so can.)
When I started this column back in November, I pledged to post a new picture of myself on the first Wednesday of every month. Since the last few weeks have pretty much canceled each other out, I'm going to save that portion of the program for the day I announce my first five-pound loss. Hopefully I can manage that before Christmas, but I'm already salivating at the mouth over plans to whip up my spinach-dip concoction next Monday, when Luke abandons me for a two-day business trip to Colorado. I'm not making any promises.
Today I received two more cheesy CDs, bringing my current grand total to ten. This means the last three days have featured a running musical soundtrack with song after song after song of delectable feel-good romance. By the time the swap is over, I fear I'll have digested so much cheese that I'll be forced to combat the constipation with liberal doses of Tori Amos and Eminem.
In addition to my grand weight-losing announcement, you'll also be happy to know the Coin Watch of 2006 was officially laid to rest last night, freeing me to take my rightful place on the first stall's porcelain throne once again. However, on my way into the lab this morning, I discovered an unwrapped maxi pad fastened to the sidewalk. At least it wasn't used.
Way to go on the two pound loss, don't be so hard on yourself. You are doing so great, hotstuff! Your maxi pad sighting reminded me that last week when I was out on a walk during my lunch break I saw the inside part of a tampon. A few feet later, the aplicator. Everything was thankfully unused, but it was so odd.
Posted by: Lindsey | December 07, 2006 at 12:35 AM
Hooray for your two pounds! That's wonderful! If I had only 12 pounds left to goal I would...die. Or something.
My brain is tapped. Just had to pop in and say, Yeah You!
(Yeah You!)
Posted by: Lost A Sock | December 07, 2006 at 02:18 AM
Continuing with the "sidewalk tableau" theme, I was standing outside a bar this past Sunday (what was I doing at a bar on Sunday before noon? Getting change for the collection plate at church...yeah, that's it...).
In a snowbank in the bar parking lot, there was a half-eaten taco on top of a discarded child's snowsuit.
What in THE HELL happened there?
Posted by: Will Shannon | December 07, 2006 at 04:34 AM
I am so, so sorry that I have not yet sent my CD but I had a major computer meltdown that happened when I tried to burn the CDs (the night before they were due to be mailed, of course, because I am me.) My ex husband agreed to make them but first I had to get the list to him and I couldn't email it. He's getting them to me on Saturday and has told me he couldn't get all my original songs so had to add some others I had added just in case. So again I am sorry I am such an eejit and you can feel free to ban me from any future exchanges!
Posted by: Emma in Canada | December 07, 2006 at 05:47 AM
Slow but steady wins the race! Eat less, drink lots of water, don't feel deprived!! I have lost 145 lbs. so far! You are only 12 lbs. away from your goal, congrats!
Posted by: Spider63 | December 07, 2006 at 11:08 AM
Congrats on the loss!! And without going to the gym! That is so great.
Posted by: Rachel | December 07, 2006 at 01:41 PM
hooray for weight loss! we must be totally in sync because i lost 2 pounds this week, too! yay!
also... yes, thank GOODNESS it wasn't a used pad...
Posted by: Judy | December 07, 2006 at 04:36 PM
Wow...where did the coins go? They did not dissolve after all this time. Their metal after all. Some staff person must have claimed them from their grave of water. That is a good thing. Now there is more space for the correct business plan.
Posted by: daddy d | December 08, 2006 at 12:58 AM