One pound down!
Yes. I lost the equivalent of a can of stewed tomatoes this week! I have to say that I know why it’s not more:
1) I lost track of all points a few times.
2) I am eating way too many points at times.
3) I am EASING into this and need to be a little more strict.
4) I am not recording all of my food.
5) NO exercise.
But I have to say one pound down is better than one pound up! 
The hospital was crazy today - busy as hell. Harriet and I finished up around 5pm and headed to a sushi joint. We had a lovely dinner (despite seeing Stinker! Greeted politely - Harriet was shocked that we just talked about how she was getting married and she walks into the restaurant with her husband - but trust me no shit was spoken. Harriet was the one who brought up the fact that she was such a slutty mess that night :).
We headed over to her house and over popcorn and chamomile tea, I learned that she was packing up to move out of her house that she acquired last year. She said that 3000.00 a month mortgage payments just couldn’t be done. She put her house up for sale and is moving back to an apartment. She was not depressed, but rather insightful about how she got the house after her mother died in order to please the memory of her mother. She said that she couldn’t live her life for anyone else anymore and because she was working too many hours - it was killing her. She talked about how difficult it was to meet men because she doesn’t look like ‘Beyonce’ rather ‘Aunt Jemima’. She introduced me to a stray kitten that she befriended (Midnite) and said that coming home to an empty house was easier because of the kitten. She says that she spends most of her time at night playing with the kitten on her porch. I told her she should take the kitten with her to her new apartment. She adores that kitten. She also said that she’s probably going to adopt a child because she’s 45 and she’s not sure if she would be able to have a child. ‘When the time is right, I’ll meet someone who may not be perfect but what I need at that time.’ As we laughed about life and reminisced about her Mother, I couldn’t help thinking what a fantastic human being she is - her childlike voice, her giggle, the love she has for her Mother (single Mother, no siblings), her growin’ up with her grandparents in Georgia, her pride in her sorority, her having phone sex with a man she met online but never met in person - for the past 3 years, her desire for a family, her struggle getting her license and her collection of elephants. She’s a joy and I hope that someday she will get everything she desires.
The rain poured down mercilessly on my drive home. I’m beat!
All in all it was yet another good day…
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January 27th, 2008 at 4:05 am
Good for you on your one pound down.
And I hope that someday you will get everything you desire.
Funny, I think the same way about you. What a fatastic human being you are
Luv ya
xoxoxoxox
January 27th, 2008 at 4:06 am
That really really really was suppose to say fantastic
damn fat fingers of mine on the computer
January 27th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Congrats on the pound down and the lovely evening.
January 27th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Nice going, Anngirl. A pound down is nothing to sneeze at, young lady! Your friend sounds lovely. So does her kitten. I love cats, myself, and can’t resist kittens….I should HOPE she’ll be taking it with her wherever she goes! I can’t fathom the vast range of housing costs across the country. I really can’t. Here in the northeast, housing is high enough (although prices are definitely falling, what with all the foreclosures and all) but out on the west coast, they’re simply so far out of proportion as to be almost laughable…if there weren’t a kazillion people actually paying those inflated prices for them! When I was out there visiting my son and we drove down the PCH into Malibu and I saw the “beach houses” that you hear so much about, costing multiple millions, I was shocked! They’re hardly more than shacks in comparison to the beach houses in Rhode Island which, with the old yankee propensity for understatement are actually 20 and 30 room mansions overlooking the ocean with several acreas of manicured, gated yards and private beaches. $3,000 a month for a mortgage payment! I swear that everybody ought to watch that movie “Zeitgeist” to see how the wealth of the world is REALLY distributed while all of us struggling peons work all our lives just trying to keep roofs over our heads and food in our collective tummies. Tsk. Anyway, I’m going to have to get myself some of those compressor bags for out-of-season clothes. I’d forgotten all about them! Great space savers! Okay. Sorry for taking over your blog, Anngirl! LOL! I must say, it always feels like I’m just having a conversation with you. I’m SO glad the soup didn’t poison you….it’s so nice knowing that you’re out there in the world. Gives me a little hope for the future.
Z
January 27th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
One pound is awesome! It is always wonderful when the scale goes
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Be proud of yourself and pat yourself on your back! Hel, if I lost 1 oz you’d be sending the ticker tape parade. Be kind to yourself. Yes, it is hard to keep track of everything. I spend a lot of time measuring portions and keeping track of points but that is when I do the best. Eventually we will be able to eyeball everything.
Yummy Sushi and with a friend as charming as Harriet. Maybe one day some dumb ass will wake up and appreciate her. I was a single parent and don’t regret a day of it. In fact, I think it made my daughter and I closer because it was just the two of us and we had to get along because there was no father to give his two cents worth.
One pound gone! Big hugs to you!
January 28th, 2008 at 2:43 am
The one pound gone is such a good news. Do give yourself a pat in the back. I am doing much worse.
No dieting, no exercise. Don’t know how many pounds up.
Harriet sounds such a great fun. I don’t know why people don’t appreciate the good women. One reason could be that we are often too much inside our shells where we are comfrotable.
But I know good things are definitely going to happen to you. You are an wonderfully lovely person.
Lots of love,
iniya
PS The adoption idea is great. Even I have it in the back of my mind.