Ramblings

I went to a party after work tonight and saw several people who haven't seen me since before my surgery. That was interesting. One person didn't even recognize me. A few others did double takes. Some people told me they liked my haircut, but failed to say anything about the weightloss. I don't care that they didn't say anything--it was just strange that they said something about my hair which is really such minor change compared to losing a couple of 4th graders in mass.

Crazy busy week for me. Long hours at work. Teaching a class on Friday night and getting ready for that. A day-long biz seminar on Saturday. More stuff on Sunday. Oh, but a potential shopping trip to IKEA on Monday in celebration of President's Day. If Monday's plans fall through, I'm call the day Vice-President's Day because my intentions will all be shot to hell.

I started an on-line class on emotional eating sponsored by OH. We'll see if it's worth it.

I tasted chocolate lava cake on Valentine's day. The first nibble was wasted because I was talking as I put it in my mouth. I took another small taste and felt like I was eating chocolate for the very first time in my life. And then I took a third and final bite just to make sure I wasn't fooling myself. Nope. Just as good. But the 2 tsp. of chocolate heaven didn't sit so well in my gut. I was miserable for the next hour or so. However, it was worth that moment of feeling like I tasted something for the first time.

I've been focusing on protein and water for the past 2 days. Plenty of shakes and liquids. I had a regular meal on VD. And then today I had cheese and some blackbean shrimp thingy tonight. I'm going to get to my next goal, damnit. I feel it coming on.

I know some people claim a scale victory as soon as it hits the low point, but my deal with myself (since I weigh every day) is that my scale has to read the same 3 days in a row before the loss is official. We're getting close, folks, really close.