My Update
Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:43 pm
Hi all!
It's been a while since I last checked in, so I thought I would.
I stopped using the scale for a while... and then there was a health thing at work and when I weighed in I was below my lowest previous weight. Hurrah! I was well into my next multiple of ten (that's how I think of it - I'm okay if I stay in the range of the multiple of ten I'm currently in even if it's the high end of that multiple, and I constantly long to move down into the next multiple of ten). So that was a pleasant surprise.
Last time I gave a update I believe I mentioned I had taken in some of my clothes at the waist - these are now loose. I still fit into the jeans that were previously hideously small, I can even pull them away from my waist by an impressive (to me at least
) amount.
I've been doing chin-ups. I'm up to 6 a day. I was up to 7, but had a setback (read "extended bout of laziness") and was down to barely making 5 for a while. The pull-up still eludes me.
But... one of these days baby! My lower body however is turning to mush from my desk-job. 
I've gotten pretty good at sticking to the N-days. S-days can still be pretty excessive sometimes (I'm gonna do an ice-cream post after this one
) and I do have social-pressure failures now and then. As long as they don't happen too often or too excessively I figure it will be okay. I have mostly gotten past the "No! I failed! Now I must fail the rest of the day too! *Open mouth, insert stack of punishment cookies, mushy chewing noises of distress and much wailing*" reaction, which was a tough one to beat. If I do eat the darn treat somebody brought to the gathering for the express purpose of sharing both treat and reaction it doesn't mean I can't be good the rest of the day or that my goodness earlier in the day is negated. Just make that nice big red X and get on with the next green one.
It's been a while since I last checked in, so I thought I would.
I stopped using the scale for a while... and then there was a health thing at work and when I weighed in I was below my lowest previous weight. Hurrah! I was well into my next multiple of ten (that's how I think of it - I'm okay if I stay in the range of the multiple of ten I'm currently in even if it's the high end of that multiple, and I constantly long to move down into the next multiple of ten). So that was a pleasant surprise.
Last time I gave a update I believe I mentioned I had taken in some of my clothes at the waist - these are now loose. I still fit into the jeans that were previously hideously small, I can even pull them away from my waist by an impressive (to me at least
) amount. I've been doing chin-ups. I'm up to 6 a day. I was up to 7, but had a setback (read "extended bout of laziness") and was down to barely making 5 for a while. The pull-up still eludes me.
But... one of these days baby! My lower body however is turning to mush from my desk-job. I've gotten pretty good at sticking to the N-days. S-days can still be pretty excessive sometimes (I'm gonna do an ice-cream post after this one
) and I do have social-pressure failures now and then. As long as they don't happen too often or too excessively I figure it will be okay. I have mostly gotten past the "No! I failed! Now I must fail the rest of the day too! *Open mouth, insert stack of punishment cookies, mushy chewing noises of distress and much wailing*" reaction, which was a tough one to beat. If I do eat the darn treat somebody brought to the gathering for the express purpose of sharing both treat and reaction it doesn't mean I can't be good the rest of the day or that my goodness earlier in the day is negated. Just make that nice big red X and get on with the next green one.
Debs x
til I 
when I read this!!!