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.