that’s just me

The whole “I’m going to lose x pounds by y” is so not working for me.  My body does what it does.  I’ve decided I’m going to focus on staying on plan and exercising regularly.  If I do those, then eventually I will lose weight.

What a surprise to me … I actually look better in clothes that fit.  Who knew?  Here I’d been knitting myself sweaters in a 46″ size (because I didn’t like clingy) and then frogging them because they looked like sh*t on me.  I’ve knit two sweaters this month, both size 38-40″ and they look awesome. I’m going to replace all my XXL sweatshirts with my awesome hand-knit sweaters. 

I’m going to have a buy new pants too, but really want to wait until March.  I should be okay for another 10 pounds lost or so.  I’ve been over 200 pounds for the last several moves (during which moves I purged anything that didn’t fit), so I don’t have a closet full of one size or several sizes smaller clothes.

• the Savoy sweater fits me.  All I need to do is to lengthen the sleeves … and I have the yarn.
• how easy it was to do supercharge and weights this week
• how awesome the knit lite counter is
• that I didn’t lose any weight this week. 
• that I can actually have my beloved peanut butter and toast on south beach … only caveat is that, sadly, I need to move to a 1 gram sugar peanut butter.  Yuck.  I need to look at almond butter.
• how clean I kept the house all week
• that I am totally with the program eating Sunday through Wednesday and then Thursday arrives and I’m scrounging
• how easy it was to drop one diet coke (to  no more than 2 a day).
• what excellent dinners I make.  Wonderful salads with lots of yummy fixings, protein main dishes that are baked or grilled, delicious roasted vegetables that are a meal in themselves.