Post T-Day

Well, that didn't go as badly as I had expected.

I expected to go to my grandmother's house this weekend and come back looking like someone fattened me up for slaughter. My grandmother is an AMAZING cook, and she is absolutely of the southern tradition that involves feeding people within an inch of their lives.

But...and believe me when I say that there is nobody more surprised by this than me...I actually managed to maintain my current weight!! Imagine that!! I was pretty good all weekend...I mean, there was a lot of dressing and casserole and sweet potatoes eaten...but I managed to eat very moderate and reasonable amounts of everything. Also, I only had 2 very small slices of pie all weekend...pumpkin and key lime. Nomnomnomnomnom.

So, I'm currently at 171, which is fine with me as far as progress goes. I did not start walking like I think I might have planned on doing as of my last entry, since I developed a massive reaction to my stitches and/or Neosporin and had to first get rid of the angry rash that was all over my abdomen. So, I will be starting again today. I'm not entirely certain what my workout will be today...it has been cloudy all day, and if it ends up raining I will get on the Wii Fit. If it remains cloudy, though, I would LOVE to walk in this. : )

I think that it will be entirely possible to get down to 165 by January 1. I'm really happy about the fact that I've managed to keep off the weight that I lost around the time of my appendectomy. I think that some of it was residual, just because my metabolism had been sped up so much by the exercise I had done to that point. But it makes me feel like it really is possible to lose weight after all, that everything I do isn't entirely futile. Even as much as I fight against it, and feel like nothing I do is good enough...it is! It IS good enough! : )

Ok, later.