Starting weight:  285.2
Calories/Carbs Goals (limits):       1400  / 30.0
Saturday’s calories & net carbs: 1252 / 37.0
Yesterday’s calories & net carbs: 1092 / 31.3
Saturday’s exercise:    2 hours shopping/walking
Yesterday’s exercise:    3 hours shopping/walking
Weight Saturday:: 247.2    Weight Yesterday:: 247.8    Today:  246.0
Change today::  -1.8 lbs.   Loss-so-far:  39.2 lbs. 

I stepped on the scale this morning.  Stepped off.  Stepped on again.  Stepped off.  I musta weighed myself five times and I kept getting the same result!  I lost almost 2 lbs in one day!  Woohoooo!

This should not surprise me, however.  I have been stalled ever since my problem started with my knee so I’ve been swelling and I knew eventually that would come down - AND - yesterday I had myself a little digestive issue… okay not so little, it was several hours of digestive issues.  You don’t want the details, LOL.  It actually prompted me to do a little research, though.  Aren’t you happy that I’m willing to share what I learned?  ROFL, I crack myself up!

Okay, my question was this:  WHAT THE HELL DID I EAT?!?!? that made me have such a problem?  Was it what I ate earlier in the day?  (Romaine salad with grilled chicken, greek dressing & feta) or was it what I ate the night before?  (Vegetable soup, Iceberg salad with grilled chicken and viniagrette, and three-freakin-cups of movie-theater-popcorn)  How long does it take to digest the food you eat and … ahem, get rid of it?  How many hours?

Here’s what I learned (and I’m gonna skip many of the juicier details, lol):  If everything is working right and assuming the person has consumed ample fluids, the average morsel of food takes 20-30 hours to … uh, come out the other end of the process.  The typical rule of thumb is 24 hours, but whenever a person eats, the brain triggers the digestive system to move things along to make way for “incoming!”  So something might hang around longer just because a person skips breakfast.  Isn’t that interesting?  LOL!

SO the answer to my question is *BINGBINGBING!*  “What is POPCORN for 200, Alex!”  (Can we all say it together:  DUH!!!  Heheh)  Movie theater popcorn which my husband drenched in movie-theater-fake-butter-greasy-stuff.  And there you have it.  One very powerful laxative for Eileen.  And a one-point-eight-pound loss for the day.  Ta-da!

Bet you’re glad you tuned in to this blog today!  LOL!

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Oh, something else I wanted to share today.  Hubby and I did a bunch of shopping this weekend and between stores we stopped at a couple of garage sales.  At this one, there was a rack of clothes and I usually ignore those at garage sales because there is never anything in “women’s sizes” (I usually just call them “fat people clothes,” after all, that’s what they are).  However, I happened to glance over and saw a really cute blouse that looked… large.  So I checked it out and it was 22/24, the exact size that I’m in right now.  I haven’t bought much clothes lately, partly because I have clothes already in that size and partly because I plan on shrinking out of that size soon.  But hey, at garage sale prices, it might be worth a look.

I ended up buying three very nice blouses (sizes 22 and 24) and two basically-brand-new blazers (size 26 but they must’ve run really small because there was another size 26 blazer there and it swam on me).  This lady came over to help me with the prices (nothing was marked) and she said something like, “That blouse was like $60 when I bought it…” so I asked her, “These are your clothes?”  She said yes, and I said, “You must’ve lost a lot of weight then!”  (She looked to be maybe a size 10 or 12.)  She confirmed that yes, she lost over 100 lbs… in just FIVE MONTHS!  Yikes!

So then we started talking.  In the meantime my husband was talking to her husband and they were yukking it up, I’m not sure about what, I was afraid to ask, lol, but anyway it was good that they were keeping busy because the lady and I chatted away for like 20 minutes.  So of course I was dying to know just one thing!  I asked her how she’d done it and her answer was … weird.  At least I thought it was. 

She said, “Oh, I went to Dr. Blahblah.”  (Blank stare from me.)  “You know, the really famous weight-loss doctor?”  (A shrug and a shake of my head, I didn’t recognize the name and don’t remember it now.)  “Well anyway,” she said, “he’s really expensive, but he definitely helped me to lose the weight.  My husband has no idea how much money I spent to lose 100 lbs. and I’m not ever going to tell him!  It cost me over $3000 in doctor’s visits alone and that’s not counting the other expenses involved.”  She never told me what those other expenses were.  In fact, she never told me much of anything else about how she lost the weight.  She dodged questions about the method involved but did share with me that as a result of the (likely poor) nutrition, her hair started falling out!  She showed me how thin her hair had become. I could see her scalp.

I’m thinking I’m really good with losing weight on my own, nice and slowly!

CARTOON OF THE DAY

This cartoon actually is about the Kimkins diet scam,
but it fit so well with my entry today I had to use it!

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