Starting weight (7/15/08):    279.8    (1/8/08):    285.2
Calories/Carbs Goals (limits):       1400  / 30.0
Yesterday’s calories & net carbs:  1311 / 30.3
Yesterday’s exercise:  none
Weight Yesterday:  257.4    Today:  256.6
Change today:  -0.8   Loss-so-far:  23.2 lbs.  /  28.6 lbs.

Last night, Hubby and I went shopping (again!) and I picked out a couple of shirts for our son, Kevin.  Mike looked over my shoulder at the tag on one of the shirts and said, “Is that going to fit him?”  It was a Large.  I said, “Have you looked at him lately?!?”  Hubby shrugged, “Yeah I guess he’d wear a large now.”  Kevin’s lost 25 pounds now.  As it turned out, the shirt fit Kevin with room to spare.  He might have even pulled off a medium.  Maybe.

I’m so proud of him - and glad for him!!!

As I mentioned before, I lost weight when I was 15 but then by the time I was 17, I had put it all back on, plus more.  The thing is, back then I didn’t have a clue how to eat to maintain my weight.  I’m so glad that Kevin and I had the opportunity to do both the calorie-counting and the carb-counting together, and that we both learned the math…!  We’ve talked about this, Kevin and I, and once he gets to his target weight, he’s going to switch back to calorie-counting but with still an eye on the carbs.  I don’t think either one of us will ever just be able to eat with wild abandon again, ever.  Ya can’t un-know whatcha know. 

So my son will experience his junior and senior years of high school as a person of “normal” weight.  I wish I could have done the same!  Those years are waaaaay behind me now, though, but the years ahead of me are yet to come — and *I* will experience most of my remaining years as a person of normal weight.

I will.

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