Tamira

Well, I’m back from Thanksgiving and all is wonderful!  I spent good quality time with my daughter Friday - Sunday and on Thursday we were invited to a friend’s house for dinner and treated like family.  What a blessing!

So being that everything was going so well, I decided to hope on the scale a day early to see if I had caused any damage from Thanksgiving.  Looks like I may be a pound up, but after 11 months of weight loss I can handle a one pound gain.  Tomorrow is my official weigh-in day, so I’ll know for sure then.  Considering I had two plates (mini ones though) and some dessert, I was expecting a little bit of a gain.

Now to the reason for my happy dance!  I was already in a WONDERFUL mood when I came to work this morning and what did I see when I open my email this morning?!  News from HG that Nabisco is introducing Lorna Doone in the 100-calorie pack version!  I’m not a big sweet eater, but I LOVE shortbread cookies and I haven’t had any in over a year.  Anyone who has made or read the ingredient list of said cookies knows why.

I know some people are against the 100-calorie packs for the expense of them and other reasons, but have things pre-portioned is what work for me.  I’m a “Finish what’s on your plate” person, so if the bag is open, I finish the bag - size is irrelevant  Funny thing is, I won’t open another bag, weird, huh?

Anyway, enough of my rambling for today.  Those of you that are still on the Labor Day - Christmas challenge, we have one more holiday left to get through and it is CHRISTMAS!  Yay!  So, please remember, to check in every week and I hope everyone and a joyous and safe Thanksgivng holiday!

Well guys, on Friday night, out of sheer boredom, I ate about 600-700 calories over my range.  As a result of this, I did not lose any weight this week and as a bonus I had a belly ache ALL weekend!   The reason why I say this is the BEST binge ever is because it reminded me of why I can no longer eat the way I used to AND it made me rededicate my efforts to my weight loss program.  For those that follow my blog, you know that I am severly allergic to exercise.  In fact, I have not exercised in over 6 weeks now.  I have been able to lose weight by being VERY strict with my food and nothing else.  I guess my mini-binge was my reality check that my body wants more than 1200 calories per day and that I need to get off my tushy so that it can have it! 

I’m so glad I have you all to keep me honest, otherwise I probably would have said the heck with it and just tried to maintain my current weight.  I don’t have family and friends as a support group so I use the comments from you all to help get me through.  When I wanted to throw in the towel, one of the comments that popped in my head was Lidija’s from a while back.  I’m paraphrasing, but she was congratulating me on still having the motivation to lose weight after having already lost so much.  I hope you all realize how much your comments may mean to a person, even if it’s just “Good Job!”. 

I don’t know how many of you can relate but in the black community (or at least mine) thin is NOT in, so it’s been pretty hard these last few weeks staying on track when every one is telling me that I have lost enough weight and if I lose anymore I’ll look sick.  I’m 4′11″ and 137lbs so I am still overweight., but at 137lbs I now have friends and family that outweigh me by 100lbs.  I’m not saying this to judge them, but to be 200lbs in my circle is the norm and now, I am no longer the norm.  If I mention my weight loss to one aunt, she changes the subject completely. When my Nana died, she was 5′1″ and 270lbs and had to use a walker to get around.  I don’t want that to be my future. So again, thank you all for being there for me and allowing me to get some things off my chest.