Starting weight (7/15/08):    279.8    (1/8/08):    285.2
Calories/Carbs Goals (limits):       1400  / 30.0
Yesterday’s calories & net carbs:  912 / 22.6
Yesterday’s exercise:  2 1/2 hours shopping / walking
Weight Yesterday:  253.6    Today:  253.2
Change today::  -0.4 lbs.   Loss-so-far:  26.6 lbs.  /  32.0 lbs.

Today when I was reading Delitaagain’s blog, I saw that she was celebrating a certain milestone - she had lost a full 25% of her total goal.  (YAY DELITA! WOOHOO!)  It occured to me that, hmmm… I don’t even know what 25% of my total goal is, so since I never figured that out, I wouldn’t even know about it when I got there.

So let’s do that math… Let’s see, I started out at 285 lbs.  I wanna be 130, so that’s a total loss goal of 155 lbs.  155 divided by 4 is … drum roll … 38.75.  Woohoo only 6.75 lbs. to go and I’M THERE!  **Dancing around**  I like that!  Thanks, Delita!

Today I started mowing the grass down at my office but I waited too late and so I only got about an hour’s worth of work in before it got dark.  Guess what I’m gonna be doing tomorrow, lol.  It’s weird, I actually kinda like doing it now.

Oh!  I just remembered something I wanted to share!  Today Mike and I went to a thrift store (looking for a desk for him) and I wandered down the women’s clothing aisle and saw this really cute jacket - a kinda casual suit-jacket, ivory with a little flower print on it.  I held it out and thought to myself, “This is the kind of jacket I would buy if they just made cute stuff like this in my size.”  I thought of looking to see what size it was, but I could tell from the arms that there was no way it was gonna be big enough for me.  So I moved on… then went back to it.  I had to know.

The tag said “2X.”  I hate that.  What exactly IS 2X anyway??  Having already ascertained from the narrowness of the upper arms that it would not fit me, the 2X further supported that assumption.  Last time I bought an “X” it was preceded by a “4.”  Ain’t no way I’m gonna fit into a 2.  I moved on… and went back.  I’ll just slip one of my arms in, just for the hell of it. 

Hmmmm.  Not as snug as I had expected.  Now I must know!  I took the coat off the hanger and slipped both arms in - and voila - they went in… all the way in.  A little snug, yes, but I was actually wearing a coat with “2X” on the label!  Did I buy it?  No.  Once I had it on, I decided that I wasn’t all that crazy about the flower print after all.  LOL I crack myself up!

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