Smug.

I have a new hat. I am smug. I’ve had object lust for this hat since August, but I couldn’t quite justify buying it (I easily justified buying the fedora, as I’d been looking for a really great fedora for years, but I simply had not been looking for a really great dinky red hat for years). However, I got paid yesterday, and in a paycheck-inspired fit of frivilous spending, went forth and bought the hat. Now I need a red jacket that particular shade of red to wear it…

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stats, 10/7

Target points: 22 Points used: 21 Activity points earned/swapped: 0/0 WPA used/remaining: 35/35 Yesterday was my year anniversary since I started losing weight. I’m feeling *extremely* committed right now. I had a dream Friday morning that I was out with friends and somebody offered me a very big brownie, which I ate two bites of because it was too sweet and I was trying to lose weight. (Ok, I then ate one more bite because it had a double-fudge chunk in it and I wanted the Good Stuff, but it…

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tagged. :)

Tammy tagged me to do this meme, which I haven’t done in at least a few years, so okay. :) 1. Delve into your blog archive. 2. Find your 23rd post (or closest to). 3. Find the fifth sentence (or closest to). 4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions. Ponder it for meaning, subtext or hidden agendas

one year later

Me, September 2004: Me, today: A year ago today I quit eating sugar for 40 days. I lost 7 pounds without making any other changes in those 6 weeks. Over the last year, I’ve lost a total of 33 pounds, gone from something like 37% bodyfat to 29%, gone from size 16 jeans to size 8s, and lost something like 4 inches from my hips, waist and bust. I’ve been weighing in fairly consistently at my lowest maintained adult weight for three months now, which is 50 pounds lighter than…

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