Starting weight (7/15/08):  279.8
Yesterday:  265.4  Today:  263.8
Change today:  -1.6   Loss-so-far: 16.0 lbs.

Wow was I happy to see a “3″ on the scale this morning (even if it is 3.8!)!!!  Downward is good, in fact, downward is great!!!  Next comes an upward swing but that’s okay.  I’ve seen the three!!!  Oh boy do I ever wanna see a “5″ in the middle — that’ll put me back where I was last summer which will make me SO happy!

Well the hurricane which wasn’t a hurricane but rather a tropical storm - it missed us completely.  We had a little bit of rain today and it was a little windier than normal, but nothing big, thank God.  Since both work and school had been cancelled, Hubby, son, and I went shopping, that was fun.  We went to a local grocery store which is closing, so they are selling everything out at reduced prices.  We got $189 worth of stuff for $136.

It amazes me that we could find $136 worth of stuff to buy, when we just went grocery shopping two days ago.  Of course not everything we bought was food - in fact a couple of the bigger-ticket items were not food at all.  We got a popcorn popper, the air kind.  I had seen on FitDay that airpopped popcorn was much lower in carbs than microwave popcorn, and so since popcorn is our favorite snack (Hubby and I), we had talked about getting a popper.  And there one was, at 30% off.  So of course we had to buy it.

I read somewhere that the fruits which are lowest in carbs are strawberries and raspberries.  So I bought some strawberries, hoping that I’d read correctly (or at least what I’d read was true!).  I looked it up when I got home and sure enough, a 1/4 cup of sliced strawberries has only 3g of carbs.  Woohooo so I cut ‘em up, stirred in a little granulated Splenda, and had myself another yummy treat for dessert tonight!

This is way too much good stuff for “dieting” !!!!!

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