The pink watch is activated

I had batteries placed in my walking watch. I'm ready. New target date for walking is Sunday.

Just to say: Things are still green here.

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I'm taking it as positive and my new starting point

So for me being in "the zone" is now about my health and staying off medications as long as I can. I need the numbers to stay the course. I will continually strive to improve them.  Of course I do not have the blood test results yet.
BP  125/82
Waist 32.5
Height 5'7 (I never really officially knew.  guess now I'll know when I start shrinking
Weight 146.6
So, my new baseline.

Re: MOM
On the phone yesterday, Mom expressed an interest in the blog. Perhaps one of you might get her comfortable with her computer again?

BEFORE AND AFTER

I am all for continuing Sisterland for all kinds of support, now and in the future. "I'm down with it".

Sisters,
Rarely do I use the address "Sisters," so listen up. I had a revelation on awakening this morning about our blog. Three years ago, we experienced the blog work for us. Seems it's working again--although we're missing Kim. My thought this morning is this: For me, the blog was, and is now, associated with the single purpose of losing weight--with the added plus of us being in regular touch. It never occurred to me to let the blog support me/us in what comes next--not slipping backward!

So I want to propose--and would need your active "yes" votes for it to work--that we decide now, in advance of reaching our optimal skinniness, to endow the blog with the power to help us afterward, to expand its meaning.  You know those moments, after you've lost the weight and are feeling good in your body, when you start eating an extra this and more of that because it feels like your thin body has plenty of room? Feels like a second piece of pizza won't matter? And then you start having a second piece on a regular basis? And, continuing to use pizza as a prime example of a slippery slope, then it bumps up to a third piece? And then the pounds start coming back on?

Looking ahead, I KNOW I need the strength of the blog to continue "after." And it would be helpful to know you're "down" with this too so I can rest easy knowing a safety net--our blog--will be there when I get all skinnied-up.

What say you?

3 sisters out of 4...let's make it 4 of 4! Can we hire a stretcher bearer in Boston to take Kim to the podiatrist?

Hallelujah!

Sisters!!!!  Must share.  It's official.  I am in my 30's!!!  Now, I must be extra patient.  I need to really focus and know that another 5 pounds, even, is going to be more stubborn.  I am SO happy that the control is working.  If it wasn't, I would be eating a cheese omelet, sausage, bacon and biscuits this beautiful Sunday morning!

142

Also my lowest in sometime. The stomach thing ugghhh. This cannot be the destiny of age distribution. When you don't have hips or an ass, being an apple is a huge challenge.
By the way, if I had money, I would do plastic surgery! Never thought I would,just saying.
 I'm not hating myself or anything like that. I just think it's now a very viable option.
 I guess I should buy a lottery ticket.
I'm glad to get back to sister land.
 Now, we just need to get Kim to the foot doctor.
I hope everyone has an awesome day!

The Dreaded Weigh-In

Worry for naught!  My lowest weight since I began.  I truly am shocked.  It was probably the benefits I got from lifing sweet Abe for all those days--burned calories.  And stairs! I am officially 12 pounds down. I am SO RELIEVED.  

Camille! Leslie! How great to go to Sisterland and see posts from both of you.

Camille--Don't be "scared," sis. "Starting over on Monday" is, no doubt, putting it extremely. A few days of laxity definitely isn't a slip back to the beginning. Maybe it's not a slip at all. Maybe your body needed the joy of being with the double A's. 

Leslie, the bridge over the bay. How great that sounds to me. Wish I were walking it with you. In September, I hope!

As for me, I recall writing something like this 3 years ago--I still can't believe it's been 3 years. Who needs a scale when you have one inorganic breast side-by-side with an alive one? Not until they match, not until the "real" one shrinks, will I be where I want to be. (A big compensation for receiving a second cancer diagnosis and having 7 hours of surgery is that the reconstructive surgeon asked me if I'd like to change my breast size. That was a surprise. Didn't know I had a choice. The reconstructed breast won't be able to gain or lose weight, he told me. So I said, "Yes, B-cup, please.") 

The bulge of my upper stomach--the one above my waist-is my other "scale." Not until it's gone, will I be at the leanness I want. As for the lower stomach--the one below my waist? Hopeless. My stern teacher in acceptance. 

Kim? Hello? Are you there?

SCARED

So, it's Saturday night.  Both babies are sound asleep upstairs.  I have really been off my program since they arrived on Monday.  Taking them to the Ferry tomorrow to meet Ashley and Chris who are ferrying to Cape May to pick them up.  I WILL weigh in Monday morning.

Day 2 and feeling some momentum

So, my baa baa sheep post was really entered the other day but I did not publish it? I am off to another day walking the first bridge - going to go for twice today. Really looking forward to the Adirondacks and a road trip.
Keep up the good work sisters and thank you for continuing the blog. I cleaned out my files for the beginning of the year. It feels so good when I lighten the load. My closet could stand some help too!

Baaaaah Baaaah Baaaah!

Heading for the bridge in 15. I know I've claimed this before. I'm sure today is the day!

Still working on New Post technique

Hello, Sisters.  Hanging tough.  I re-read your post, Mignon, and yes, I did misunderstand. Clarification is always good.  Chasing after, playing with, lifting, pool and ocean swimming with Adelaide and Abe starting Monday morning. That's got to count for something extra, I hope, I hope, I hope.

Last Sunday, July 5, marked TWO MONTHS since I've been back on my lean & green path, which means two months off sugar. I've got to say, for reasons I don't understand, it's really going well. I keep thinking a craving, like the Alien with gnashing teeth, is going to burst out of me and take over. But not yet. Camille, I think you misunderstood my last blog about getting rid of clothes. It's a beyond-belief good thing. I've emptied 100 hangars and many other things that weren't on hangars. What I was trying to say is that I'm not only losing body weight, I'm losing the weight of too many clothes stuffed into more than one closet. My place is still not back in order since the painters were here and everything, I mean everything, got turned upside down. But it will be. Closets and shelves have been my starting point. Just finishing up my afternoon green drink now. I guess it's getting boring for you to read that over and over. It still surprises me.

I'm not just losing weight. I'm losing the clothes I've been holding onto for you-never-know-I-might-need-this-someday. My conservative guestimate of empty hangars in my near future is 100. A more exact number will be forthcoming.