6 bags of sugar

Grace reminded me this week that a bag of sugar weighs 5 pounds. In 38 days I've lost 6 bags of sugar -- 30lbs!

Funny how I was stalled for a week or so, then had a really good week of weight loss. I liked this week better than that stall week.

So what's the trick? water. protein. exercise. and a little cheat here or there! Seriously, last Saturday I walked to Natick farmer's market with Marisa and her boys. Cheese is one the proteins that I eat a lot of, and we went to a bakery to buy the boys cookies, and there was a cheese danish with my name on it. I tried to resist but gave in. I ate the cheese part, threw away the danish around the edges, though I'm sure I had more calories and sugar than I should have. It was SO GOOD. The next day I was down a pound.

I think the lesson is for me to drink water, eat protein, get exercise -- and allow a slip here or there. I'm not going to have a cheese danish every day, but an occasional slip might be a good thing, mentally and for my body.

It's been a good week. I wore a nice blue sweater and white linen pants to work yesterday that I haven't worn in 4 or 5 years. Another day I wore a summer sweater that I like and is 1 year old, and it was swimming on me so I threw it away when I got home! That felt good. Goodbye big sweater.

That's one challenge -- what to do with the clothes I outgrow? Not that I know anyone who I could give them to if I wanted to, because the clothes are too big, but even if I did, how insulting would it be to try and give someone my old fat clothes! I guess I'll start a bag of things to donate rather than throwing things away.

My ultimate would be fitting into the suit I wore to Sue's wedding 14 years ago. I'm not even sure it is possible, I was working at LMI then and at my lowest weight, but I absolutely loved the suit! It is periwinkle blue, Talbots, sleeveless shift dress with matching short jacket. There are a lot of clothes I had then that I loved (a dress that looked like watercolors, I wore it to Sandy's wedding when Jen, Stacey, Bill and I had the best glass of wine ever at the Boston Park Plaza.)  

If things keep going the way they are, I'm going to need all new clothes this fall, so will need to get a whole new wardrobe. What fun!

I spend a LOT of time shopping and planning food. I probably need to start cooking more. I pretty much go to Whole Foods every other day and get sushi or tofu or chicken. Oh, this week I discovered turkey bacon, turkey jerky, and turkey pepperoni. Anything I can keep with me and eat when I get hungry (like the jerky and pepperoni) comes in handy. Add in a cheese stick and it's a very yummy snack. Scrambled eggs with bits of bacon is good too.