It's been a blah week, for sure. TOM-type problems. But that's always a guaranteed weight loss for me, for some reason.
In fact, the scale this morning said 160. I know it'll bounce back up another pound or two, but it was fun seeing that 1-6-0 for the first time.
I'm also really considering resetting my goal to 150. Still some I could stand to get rid of around the middle section, arms and legs. I know it'll come off in its own order, and in its own due time with workouts...so I'll have to keep trying as long as people stop freaking out about how I'm "too skinny."
On one hand, I realize that the people saying this just aren't used to seeing me this way, and it's such a big difference from 220 to 160 that it's taking some getting used to. But at the same time, I wonder if there's something THEY see that I don't, know what I mean? I've told a couple of people I want to go for another 10 pounds, and they've had fits of "NO! You're skinny enough" or "You don't want to get TOO thin!" One of those people is a size 4 friend who thinks she's a whale, too. But that's another post for another day.
So we'll see how it goes.
This weekend will be busy. I've got to go out of town to cover a softball game tonight, then get up early and drive to another town to help my dad and sister clean out a storage building that's full of goodies from when we were growing up. Nice, physical trip down memory lane, there. Sunday I get to clean, do laundry and our monthly grocery shopping...whoo hoo.
We've started shopping for three weeks at a time, and making a menu of what we're going to eat every night for that time frame. It helps a LOT with calorie counting because I don't have to sit and wonder every day what's for dinner...I can plan an entire day's worth of food in advance. With gas prices as they are, though, we may have to go up to 4 weeks of planning just to cut out that trip for one other week.
For the bulk of our shopping we have to go out of town to a big grocery store, or a super wal-mart. Our one local store is INSANELY expensive. One week of groceries there has cost me $80 before, and THREE weeks of the basics, other than meat, milk and veggies (which I buy locally), costs us around $100 at wal-mart. So we make the drive.
That's why it's so hard to eat healthy around here, if you shop exclusively locally. There's no real demand for it, and it's too expensive for them to get, so the store doesn't order it. And the things they do get are so insanely priced it's ridiculous and you can't afford them.
On the new number!
