I've been here every day, Sis

Mignon--Congratulations on leaving soda.  I'm struggling a little.  Just staying the course.  I need to amp up the physical part of this journey.  The weather here is crazy.  We are apparently headed for a rough patch over the next several days.
Stay strong.

Feeling alone in Near-Afterland. Awaiting my blogmates' arrival. Hopefully, this morning I just drank my last Diet Coke, for this moment in time. All gone. No more anywhere to be found in my apartment. I'm transitioning to Zerowater with a six-pack of Diet Hansen's. My 2 beautiful water bottles stand at the ready atop the refrigerator. Wish me good luck.

here

but absent. where does the time go

So I've been thinking about setting an intention to go cold turkey off Diet Coke on October 1 -- and thus to rediscover the joy of drinking water! I can't recall ever getting this much of a mental payoff from Diet Coke as I have in the past 4, going on 5, months. Pop, pop, fizz, fizz, oh, what a relief it is, etc. Now that October 1 approaches, however, I don't want to end the love affair, even though I know I should. I'll keep you posted. In the meantime, let me say this. It is my intention to set an intention to get off the stuff. Amen.

Good to see your post today, Camille! Is your "status quo" as deflated as it sounds? Hope not. Walking and stairs sound terrific. Waiting for you and Leslie to join me in "Afterland." No surprise: it's slippery.

Unexpected outcome of losing weight:  Some of the clothes I eagerly placed in a pile to donate or to sell on eBay have found their way back into my closet. Not too many, though, thankfully. Often I have to try on a garment in order to describe it accurately for eBay buyers. Thus, the slight regression. Suddenly, th pants or the top are looking good again. But overall I've discarded SO MUCH. Besides, if given the choice between a slim closet or a slim "me," my answer is a no-brainer. Slim me.

Hi Girls

Feeling grateful that I am "status quo".  Walked yesterday, gardening today, lots of stairs, too.  Not enough, but something.  Recommit several times a day every day.  Let's go, Sisters.

So the supermarket I frequent most often has its donuts on the immediate right as you enter the door. Then, inches from the self-checkout screen, at eye level, are rows of candy bars and sometimes also a big open carton of candy bars sitting on the floor waiting to be shelved. Today it was a full box of oversize Hershey bars. Mostly, since May 5, a protective bubble has given me a set of blinders in the supermarket with respect to my drug. Yesterday and today I noticed that I was noticing the donuts and the chocolate. Glancing at them as I walked on to the produce section. 

5 PM
I was just about to secure the lid onto my NutriBullet when I spied something that looked like it might be alive nestled on a triple-washed, organic spinach leaf! I bent down to take a horribly closer look and determined that it was, indeed, a living thing. Lord help me!

One afternoon rolls into another, so I'll be making my green drink soon. Larry left some chocolate-covered almonds in my refrigerator. I took them to my morning meeting. I had none. Camille: I know what I have to do. PPS: For the past two days, I found myself reaching for a belt to cinch my paints at the WAIST! Cannot tell you how surprised I was. Even at my thinnest, I don't think I ever wore a belt, convinced long ego that I didn't have a waist. Thus, my penchant for baggy clothes. So even though my waist is actually thicker now, from age, I wore the belt proudly. I cared not a fig if my waist was ordinary--ie, not 18", not even close. Felt like a woman. No more hiding. Kim would be proud of me!

Welcome Back, Leslie!

Leslie, it's great you've turned a corner!  Now, Kimmie, we are waiting for YOU. Mignon, you should try cutting down on the soda, begin to add SOME walking every day.  Together, sisters.

Great to see and read your Comment and Post today, Leslie! I did, indeed, get a "worthy" water bottle, the same one that worked for me before and that went missing. Nalgene. Holds 32 oz. That's the equivalent of only 4 8-oz glasses of water, but it worked for me REALLY WELL before. I just make sure the bottle is empty by the end of the day. I get additional water in my smoothies/green drinks. Next step: fill it up and start drinking. That means letting go of Diet Coke which I have become seriously in the habit of drinking for a few months now. But easy does it. It feels SO GOOD not to be a slave to sugar and other bad eating.

I'm owning it!

I just made my appointment with the foot doctor. Please note dear sister Kim. I did however not make it until after my stay at home vacation. I am joining the gym however on the Tuesday of my vacation week. I will not put my health off too much longer. Thank you Camille and Mignon for keeping it going.

I'm approaching "after" and want to keep losing so I don't have to face living this way forever and ever. How's that for paradoxical thinking? Do not, do not, do not want to start gaining again, or become enslaved to sugar and carbs again, which is really the same thing. I want my freedom from unhealthful food and unheathful eating. Green drink and protein smoothie today. Roasted potatoes in the oven. I hope to get to Target tomorrow to buy a new water bottle.

Reporting in from the "other" beach, the one 3,000 miles across the country. No slips, but feeling a little slippy. Nonethless, I'm paying "no never mind" to that slippy feeling and keeping my eye on the prize: healthful, high-nutrient eating and continuing to cultivate the mindset that sustains it. Healthful, mega-nutrient eating is requisite for a lean body, the body I feel best in. Bien dans sa peau:  Happy in my own skin. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you both and, especially, our walk on the bridge!

LAPSE

Even though I partook of TWO Rojo's tacos yesterday, my weight is the same today.  I WILL happily take that.  Phew------------

And so I begin again

Fitbit goal 1
Rejoin Gym October 15th

Hellloooooooo

Good morning, those of us in OC!  Road trip today!