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Eileen - Day #323 - Sunday
Daily intake goals::  < 35g carbs / < 1700 calories / > 64+ oz. water
Exercise yesterday:: 60 min. tennis w/the Hubby
Net carb grams yesterday:  28.7      Calories:  1244
Weight today:  232.4     Change:  -0.8    Total weight loss:  -52.8
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I can feel that I’ve lost some fat recently.  I can feel it in my clothes.  I can feel it in how I fit behind the steering wheel.  I can see it - a little - when I look in the mirror.  Despite all that, though, I wasn’t perceiving results because it wasn’t showing on the scale.  Or was it?

I’m gonna look backward here and recap a little history.  Back on February 9th I weighed in at 234.6 and I celebrated because I’d finally hit the 50-lb. lost milestone.  Then - within a week! - I gained almost five pounds!  On February 15, I weighed 239.4 and then I hovered around that weight for a long time.  On April 12 - almost two months later! - I weighed in at 238.6.

Right after that, on Thursday, April 16, I posted an entry to this blog that started with, “I have renewed motivation!!”  At that time I dropped the lower limit on my carb and calorie intake and I stepped up my exercise to an hour a day.  Since that date, my weekly Sunday weigh-ins have looked like this:

April 19          236.6          2.0 lb. loss from previous week
April 26          235.8          0.8 lb. loss
May 3             234.8          1.0 lb. loss
May 10           235.4          0.6 lb. gain
May 17           235.0          0.4 lb. loss
May 24           232.4          2.6 lb. loss
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.                                     6.2 lb. loss

Now 6 lbs. in 6 weeks may not sound like a lot to those who can typically lose 2 (or 5 or 10) lbs. a week, but for ME, it’s an astounding rate of loss!

I just needed to celebrate that!  =D

Edited to add:  I just thought of something more I want to celebrate!  Today Hubby and I went to the movies (Night at the Museum 2) and he loves to sit in the very top row (this theater has stadium seating so the top row is way up high).  Anyway, he was ahead of me and with his long legs I was almost running up those stairs to keep up with him, and when I got to the top I realized - hey! - I’m not out of breath!  There was a time, not so long ago that I would have had to climb one stair at a time, nice and slow, and even then when I got to the top I would be breathing hard!  THEN, Hubby’s earphones wouldn’t work (he’s hearing-impaired), so I had to go back down those stairs and when I came back up, this time I ran!  On purpose!  Okay it was more like a jog than a run, but I made it to the top and was only slightly short of breath!  Wooohooooo!!!!

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