Holy, shot.
I went to Costco today, and splurged on a size 10 pair of jeans.
They fit!
Category Archives: Loss of the Great White Weight
In Search of Horseradish aka the Sizes I’ve Lost
Being good is hard to do.
Oh sure, things get easier as long as you keep going. However some things still drop kick you in the solar.
Like horseradish. I swear to gods that it used to come without sugar AND corn syrup. But no, all the stores only seem to have the sauce. I finally just relented and bought a brand that I love that only has corn syrup…not sugar and not high fructose. Sigh…I’m going to to start buy crap off the internet.
I’ve been hovering around 160 for a few weeks now…but I’ve dropped in sizes
. I finally relented and bought some clothes this weekend. Two shirts, one pair of pants, an overshirt, a coat, footy socks, four pairs of shoes, and lots of underwear.
I swear to Gods folks…NO ONE THAT’S A SIZE SIX IN UNDERWEAR IS ALLOWED TO BUY ANY UNTIL I’M LESS THAN A SIZE 6!!! Frankly I’m tired of trying to find things in my size (no matter the size) and having EVERY STORE BE OUT OF STOCK!
Good, now that we’ve finished with that here’s my size changes since January:
Overall / pants: form 18 to 12
Feet: from 8 1/2 to 7 1/2
Shirt / Dress: from XL to S
Dress: 14/12 to ? (I have to go to Ross and buy some new dress before our Vegas trip eep! So I don’t know my size yet..but last year’s dress…the cute brown one was 12, and the year before was 14 and too big.)
Bra: 38DD to 34Dand 1/2 (Can’t wait to be a half sizeless…36 is too big!)
Underwear: from size 8 to size 6.
I still have 40lbs to go. I’m halfway there.
The year before I found out I was Hypothyroid I joined Curves. They control everything you do there and can be toxic. In my initial interview I had to tell them what my ideal weight was.
“116lbs,” I said. “I was that my senior year of high school.” (I really was…at a size 16 with a small belly, the day I graduated…I was never that weight before (in middle school) or since).
The Curves lady gave me frown and said it was wishful thinking. I agreed and said how about 150lbs.
“I think you need to be realistic, Michelle. Let’s say 165lbs.” Keep in mind I was 169lbs at the time. A few months after I joined, I began gaining weight like crazy…I’d gone full hypo and thought I was going insane. Curves thought so too and told me to eat less and pay them 300$ for their nutrition package. I didn’t, thank gods. Those ladies were nuts.
Curves was good because I got exercise. But that’s all it was good for. They were not supportive. And once your muscles get past the resistance machines…not even the exercise is doing you good.
I’m on my way now. The fact that I have to pull up my size 14 pants all day makes me happy. I can wear my size 12 shorts and have room in them. I have a size 12 pair of jeans in my closet…soon I will be brave enough to try them on.
The best part? Next summer all my shorts will be too big.
160
Look at that. Almost to the 150′s. This is going well.
Fnproductions.net may be gone in the next day or to. I and the other ML’s are discussing website options for Denver nanowrimos. This includes goodies.
Oh My God My Butt Hurts
Snot has died. This is depressing on a lot of levels. He and Puke have been a mainstay of my Ren Fair going for many years. We got to see one of (if not his last) show here in Colorado. I happened to have recorded it. Really glad I bought that camera.
My Wii Fit regimen has been 1 hour 3 days a week. 30 min of strength or yoga, then 30 min of cardio…usually free step. And my butt hurts. And my leg. owoowowowowowo.
But bitching aside…the diet is working…four days and it works. I’ve lost 7 lbs so far this week. 7. If I make at this pace I will reach my next before doctor goal by Tacticon.
Tonight I’m running Greyhawk. I’m a sorry SOB that gives in to begging but he sounded so pitiful. I’m even sorry I can’t be more flexible about it. Greyhawk is almost over. Should be interesting.
Atkins Induction
So I started Atkins this week. After going over low carb choices with my doc, we settled on this. Gah. This is hard enough already. I miss fruit…two weeks till fruit.
I’m on day 3. And it’s hard. I feel sick. According to the book you’re supposed to. Gah. But…I’ve been loosing a pound a day so far. I also found this website, Sugar Free Sheila. The recipes on those pages have been life savers. Really, cheese chips…cheese chips! And the pumpkin bakes have been really good.
I can’t go the hard boiled egg route…I need them too doctored up. But tonight is spaghetti squash and chicken. Num.
Now if I can just fit in some sleep and lose this con crude.
Publishing Highs and Woes
I still haven’t been paid for my last story, apparently there has been a shake up at the company. Right now I’m trying to get a hold of them.
I submitted material for an rpg game. That would be fun to work on. I’ll have to see how it goes.
My back drive was missing it’s innards. I have to send it back…I’ll probably call them after work. Sigh.
They have a new disorder named. The Truman Show Disorder. It’s for folks who think they are on reality tv. More fodder for my Demon Hunter game.
I managed to work on the Wii yesterday…just some running and some step. Not much at all. Today I woke up with a head ache…so maybe I’ll do it tonight.
Sigh.
Ah yes, Batman, Guild Wars and Working
So I almost have all the Tacticon updates up. If you’re gunning to register for Tacticon you can now. You’ll just have to download the booklet at the moment.
I’m planning to have more updates up today. Percoset messes with me. I worked on the website for several hours yesterday then ended up taking a percoset because the tubes started to bother me big time. I gave up about an hour after that as my head got extremely fuzzy and I couldn’t connect the code together. It’s a bad day when you can’t figure out where the img tag goes in href tag
So because I did some shopping for groceries, Worldcon and scrapbooking early that morning, I picked up a copy of Guild Wars to try. I’m missing FFXI terribly…I can’t justify the time or the money. Guild Wars doesn’t have a monthly fee, the graphics are very much like Final Fantasy, and it’s a fantasy online game. Score.
It took most of the afternoon to install 2 disks and allow it to download updates. I either worked on the webpage where I could, ie: little updates, researching ticket code to use on the eventual fully automated shopping cart site for the DGA, or playing Aurora Feint on my iTouch until it made me dizzy.
I haven’t touched the Wii in a while due to this whole mess. I’m still not supposed to exercise but I have to move some things. I’m trying hard not go more than 10lbs at once. So far so good.
So Guild Wars installed. The first thing you get to do is choose whether to be a PvP munchkin or an RPG player. That’s totally cool that they separate those out. The generation part was nice and very customizable. Not as much as CoH but more than FFXI. The graphics are beautiful in the pastel style of FF but with a more solarized look. I’m in heaven. I got to level five and had fun. The catchphrase of the game is: A game that takes skill in stead of time. So far I believe it.
Dying so far hasn’t had any penalties…you revive in the various shrines. You can’t explore buildings like FFXI which is too bad but the landscape is pretty awesome. Some of it’s very open like FFXI some of it is very path oriented. You have to pick up items that monsters drop, you don’t have to pick up your stuff when you die. You can color you clothes with various dye and get new ones. The various characters I saw in game where as varied as CoH. There are a lot of drops, and gold. Though some merchants take trade instead of gold. The games tracks your missions and orients the map to the mission. Once you’ve been to a place you can open a travel map and go instantly to various places instead of walking there.
Overall…very cool.
I saw Batman, disturbing beautiful and insane. Very dark, very worth the money. This is the batman I grew up reading. The one I grew up watching was very different. I like this one better.
Wii Fit: Avanced Exercises
I’ve just about unlocked all the unique exercises. Today I decided to do Advanced Step for my Aerobics…in doing so I unlocked Free Step.
Free Step is simple and yet pretty neat. You choose 10, 20 or 30 minutes. Then they give you a step goal and you go. The sound is all handled through the Wiimote. Wii Fit encourages to watch tv or a movie while you do this…the screen will count your steps and time but even if you change the channel, the Wiimote keeps the beat and the encouragement up. You can change how fast the beat is and from two rhythms, a voice or nothing.
By the end I had a mild sweat and heart beat going but it felt good (I did 20 minutes). Then with five minutes left I did some of the boxing. Finally I had 1 minute left…I decided to do a balance game since I hadn’t for quite a while. I’ve unlocked all of those right away but the last one I had not tried yet.
Its Meditation! They give you a candle to concentrate on and you have sit still. Just like in real life (assuming your real life is like mine with a noisy kid, animals and an SO that thinks meditation is for pinko-commie-hippy-nutjobs) people walk around you, bugs fly in and doors slam. Your job is to hold still, breath and watch the pretty flame. I made it 86 seconds.
Repetition – Things I’ve Learned About Finance
I’ve begun adding more reps to my Wii Fit strength training exercise. It’s something you unlock as you go, but you have to choose them to do more. Today I started choosing the higher reps I’ve unlocked…I did fairly well. I’m still on only six reps for side planks…those are hard.
Midway through the exercise this morning, J. decided to use the pug as a tickling device. I fell over and the poor traumatized pug sat on me. Needless to say I got zero points for that exercise.
A lot of us are having financial problems at the moment. I thought I’d repeat something that most finance experts tell you..but generally get ignored. I ignored them. I thought I didn’t have the money to do these things. Then last year I started doing them on a fluke.
- Pay yourself first: Figure out what you can take out of every check before you do anything. If all it is is 50 cents…fine, do it. Then put it away.
- Make a donation to some non-profit every year. Make the donation at least worth $250 dollars. That’s when the donation really begins to count.
So while I’m not financier or anything…these are two tips that really have helped. So there you go.
Trying Something Different.
I am trying to catch up on reviews. I’m not that far behind yet…but it’d be best if I catch up.
Besides that I’m food experimenting this week. Low carb, easy protein. This means fresh fruit and veggies all day…with pre-cooked chicken as the protein source. I cooked bunch of chicken last night (worchester and pepper) then cut it up for easy finger food. I spent my grocery allowance on fruits and veggies from Sunflower Market.
Fruit is doing a good job of curbing the sweet craving. My first goal is to loose the 1lb from the kidney stones and the 1lb from the week of Steamboat.
Then it’s all downhill from there.
My alarm didn’t go off and J. didn’t see fit to wake me up. So Wii Fit will have to be done tonight. That’s okay…I should have time.