Starting weight (7/15/08):  279.8
Yesterday:  264.8  Today:  264.8
Change today:  -0.0   Loss-so-far: 15.0 lbs.

My baby drove today.

Okay, so he’s sixteen years old and technically he could have been behind the wheel a whole year ago but omg he’s sure not my little baby anymore.  He’s a young man and he is incredible.  He sat in the driver’s seat for the very first time today and it was like he was born knowing how to drive.  I was so amazed. 

We went this afternoon and got his learner’s permit.  He had already passed all the tests in driver’s ed and so all I had to do was hand over twenty-seven dollars and watch him smile (slightly so as not to be uncool) while they took his picture.  Ten minutes later we walked out, him with his new permit in hand.  That was without a doubt, the quickest and least painless trip to the Driver’s License bureau I’ve ever experienced.

After we got home, I switched cars with my older son (my ’stang is a stick shift) so that we could run over to the driver’s ed lot at the high school.  I rode along for an hour as my “baby” did three-point-turns, pulled into parking spaces, and rode around the figure-eight a zillion times. 

I’m so friggin’ old.  Geesh.

I did better at the calorie/carb thing today.  It’s just been a while since I was in the calorie-awareness-groove and it’s not hard at all to slip back into it.  I had a salad with both lunch and dinner to help fill me up and ate chicken and turkey today, limiting my cheese intake.   Skipped the cheesy broccoli leftovers and indulged in sugar-free jello and low-carb-low-calorie muffins that I made from the mix I got in the mail yesterday.  Like I said, I can do this.  =D

I will do this.

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