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February 11, 2008

187 stuck

Cool, I weighed myself this morning and I’m still 187, so it stuck.

I’ve been feeling really good about my eating. My anxiety is doing much better and my appetite is back. Mainly for financial reasons I’ve been strictly monitoring my diet. We haven’t been out to eat in at least a month (wheh-hew) and when I go food shopping, I make a list and stick to it not straying a bit. That has been really helpful in keeping the cost down and not making unhealthy impulsive buys. Because I’m eating what feels like so little to me (it’s really not, that’s just relative to what I want to eat) I’m making sure it’s healthy. I haven’t completely deprived my family of any fun though; we’ve been seeing my grandma and family once a week for pizza dinner. They provide the pizza and I’ve been making side dishes with a vegetable of some sort.

This approximate 10 pounds has made such a difference in how my legs feel. They feel like they’ve been relieved of a ton of weight and ache a lot less. Looking forward to every subsequent pound lost is driving my motivation.

I know I must sound like a total cheapskate too but when I’m tightly watching my budget it really reminds me of the things in life that are really important and releases me from the ‘want’ mentality. I’ve been spending more time reading with my daughter, going to the library, and playing with her at the free play center in the Y. We haven’t been to a mall or any super centers where we just feel deprived of all superficial junk. In many ways super gluing the purse closed is quite liberating.

Posted by hopeful @ February 11, 2008 10:12 AM

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