Fat girl gone...well, for the most part!

Happy day all. Lemme just say today was much better than the suckfest that was yesterday. Work crap piled up on me a little too high and just had to topple over and spill everywhere. To make matters worse, somewhere under all that crap, I lost my cell phone. Had a good cry, and felt much better.  Amazing how that works! 

Since I was feeling so BLURG we ended up eating late and I was too stuffed to ride the bike without yarking. Thus, Monday became my day off. Yay. No excuses the rest of this week, I guess! 

I think I have passed a mental milestone the past few weeks. I finally don't feel like a fat person...all blobbish and whale-like. Wow, eh? I feel...normal....whatever that is! Sure, I still have areas that need reducing, but overall, I feel good. I am hoping that the last 15 will help shrink the parts that are still lumpy. 

This is going to be short folks 'cause my heart just isn't in blog land today. 

Stats for the day:

Weight: 185

Exercise: 40 min.

Purging...and not in that unhealthy, bulimic way

I did some cleaning out of the disaster zone that is my closet today. It felt really good to just ruthlessly pluck the plus-sized 14 and 16 tops from my closet with a sneer and toss them into a nice, shiny black garbage bag (not to be garbage, mind you, but to go to goodwill). Buh-bye print top...I see you are several sizes to big for me now! See ya sweater...you are wayyy shapeless and voluminous! Ta-ta jeans...you just fall right off my ass! Then, the best part came. I tried on my winter coat from last year. I wasn't sure how it was going to fit because it used to be tight on me. So much so I could never really do up the top button. Just froze the girls a wee bit there. :P I slid my arms in the sleeves, and pulled the coat closed...and then kept pulling until there was about FIVE inches of overlap! This thing could be a double-breaster! It was crazy big on me! Shockeroo! And really, I wasn't plagued with thoughts like: What if I gain the weight back...I should keep these clothes just in case! Nope, nothin' like that! 

 As if this wasn't good enough, then my husband walked into the bedroom with this bemused expression on his face. He held up my "go-card" from work last year (the students all get them for ID and for whatever reason, teachers get one too). He said he hadn't realized how different I looked until he looked at that pic. I took the card from him and took a gander. YIKES! Um, yeah lookin' a bit portly there. What was weird for him, sweet man that he is, was that he never saw me as fat last year. So I had to ask, "But I look fat in that picture?" To which he responded, "Well, yeah!" Since he sees me every day, it's much harder for him to notice the changes...I definitely get that. 

So there are my double whammy in-your-face moments of realization that damn, I've lost me some serious weight! Another nice moment this weekend was buying a size 11 skirt. :) It was a smidgen tight in the butt area, but not the waist, and it's one of those fabrics that will stretch a bit. Cool right? Fuck yeah! 

So now all my nice, smaller clothes are hanging in my closet ready to adorn my slimmer bod, and boy does that feel good. I can't wait to lose these last 15 lbs. and maybe do another purge. Hey, any excuse to shop! Speaking of shopping, I bought some sexy tall, black, pointy-toed boots yesterday too. Hel-lo. They are hawt, if I do say so myself.  Maybe I will bless you with a pic one day. :P

In the food world, I am definitely PMSing again. Frickin' hungry all the time again...craving chocolate too. Bugger. I probably consumed a few more calories this week because of it. I did manage to work out five days this past week. I plan to do six next. I am seriously contemplating buying one of Jillian Michaels' videos. Mostly because of Tiffany rocking her 30 Day Shred. Go Tiffany! I want to try it first if I can, so I will check the video store first. Everything I've read seems to point to some serious butt-kicking workouts. May just help me lose the last bit of weight! 

Oh, and welcome to my new followers! Tricia, love your blog (even if your header makes me wanna eat cupcakes!). Becky, who appears blogless (please correct me if I am wrong!), but is so very welcome in blogland! And my most recent addition, Dawn, who has this blog, which has awesome recipes and pics,  along with this one, which is also awesome, and more about her weight-loss journey. Also, thank you to all my previous followers. I know I didn't welcome each of you (sorry!), but I am really trying to now that things have slowed down. Love y'all! 

Stats for the day:

Weight: 185

Exercise: 40 minutes

Hollywood North is alive and kickin!

Hmm...post 101 just doesn't have the same zing as 100. I guess I will just have to muscle through it. 

Today was a day with a wee bit of temptation. And you know temptation, it usually comes in pizza form. I had two pieces. And they were DAMN GOOD. I had a light dinner- soup and sammich, so I  am not too worried about calorie overload. Plus I did no snacking at all. Gotta pick your battles! 

Yesterday was another wee indulgence. My lovely friend Lara came out with her son, and we went to the park and the for fish and chips. The funny part was ending up walking onto a movie set! Steveston in Richmond is a very picturesque little fishing village with many charming shops. My first clue that something was up was seeing crowds of people running and girls screaming. At first, I thought some bad mojo was going down...heart attack, fight, something! Then I saw the cameras. Nope, no medical emergency. It was, in fact, a teenage frenzy brought on by none other than teen idol golden boy himself, Zac Efron. Sadly, we missed his presence by mere moments. Shucks. The annoying part came after dinner, when unbenownst to us, they had started filming some background stuff and we walked into camera range. We were quickly shuffled to the side by a bearded, denim-clad gentlemen, whose name I can only assume was Bubba. Or maybe Big Ray or something clever like that. So we waited for them to stop and resumed on our merry way, with Lara going on a wee tirade about "movie people" and how much she loathes them. Come in, take over and push people out like the own the world. Damn them. Lol, but really, we gotta love 'em coming to B.C. and turning our towns into all sorts of U.S. locales. Mostly ones in Washington. Although, one area 1/2 hr. from here is Santa Monica in a little show called Psych. Just to name a few more:

21 Jump Street (I got to be an extra in high school!)

MacGyver

Dark Angel

Millenium

House (at least a few eps.)

Stargate SG-1 + Atlantis

Dead Like Me (such a quirky little jewel of a show!)

X-Files (oh how we miss it!)

Battlestar Galctica

Smallville (filmed in my lil' old home town of Cloverdale)

Oh, and wayyy too many movies to even list here. My fave being X-Men. :)

Anyway, back to the blog stuff. I am working out every day still, so I hope to see the scale keep moving down! I know I could be doing more to lose weight faster, but I feel like this is working for me. I don't feel too deprived, and I am not killing myself working out so much that I am burned out totally. I know one of my beloved floggers, Fat Daddy was having that problem. Kudos to him for losing an astounding 80 lbs! Yeeee hawww! 

Really, I think I can keep doing this! Then when I meet my goal, I will see what I need to do to maintain my weight. It will probably be fairly similar to now, with watching portions and junk intake. I will still exercise, but maybe not every day. We shall see! 

Stats for the day:

Weight: 185

Exercise: 40 minutes

Oh, and it may be too late, but I wanted to see if the gods would smile upon me enough to win some cool free shit from Tricia...so check out her blog (though I am sure many of you already have!). She is as generous as she is kind and funny, and, no doubt, smokin hot. :)

100!!!

I know what you are thinking...

Whoa!

Blimy!

Zowie wowie!

Hot damn!

Amazeballs! 

Far out!

Groovy baby! 

Golly! 

Gosh! 

Gee! 

Gadzooks! 

And perhaps some of you are even daring to invoke the holy trinity of moly, cow and mackerel.

One hundred blogs, you say? Surely you jest! Such a monumental achievement would take years, not these scant months! But yes, dear reader. It's true. 100 blogs I have made. 

*bows*

Ok, totally done tooting my own horn. Um...does anyone else think that expression sounds kinda dirty? Hmm....mental note: erase "tooting my own horn" from stuff I say.

Back to bidness then. I was delighted and elated and all sorts of happy emotions like that this morning. Why? The squirrel sacrifice* I made must have done the trick because I was down TWO MORE POUNDS! See above exclamations of amazement. 

I am not as happy with what I ate today, but only marginally so. Cereal, fine...delicious ham, lettuce, tomato and onion on gorgeous, soft multigrain bread, fine with a side of mmmm...1/2 a muffin, meh not so good....dinner of BBQ chicken, baked potato, salad and corn, fine...2 tiny squares of chocolate, again a meh. 

I worked my butt out on the bike with me foine weights and did my sit ups, so all was well there. I just want to see the scale stick at that weight and not bounce back up in that maddening way. 

Also, since this is my blog, and I am god here, I am going to post my week 21 results tonight (and also because I forgot yesterday *sheepish grin*).

Thank you, lovelies for being with me. If there is a hearty soul out there who has stuck with me for all these 100 posts, say hi, willya? :) 

Stats for the day:

Weight: 185 (get outta freakin' town!!)

Exercise: 40 min. 

*Don't freak animal lovers, I would never harm a real squirrel...this was a purely mental** squirrel. 

** Not to say a squirrel with a mental disfunction, like maybe it does nothing but chase its own tail, or thinks other squirrels are out to get him, or stops eating because the other squirrels think he's too fat, or he is afraid of heights and has panic attacks on even the lowest tree branches, because that would be sad, but a squirrel that I sacrificed in my brain.***

***Huh, that doesn't sound much better.****

****Fuck it.