car - those pictures are great motivation, and I think you've made the right call about walking, if you just cannot stand it, it's better to find something that you like doing. Walking is good for me; I have a treadmill in my dining room right now and can watch episodes of Farscape on Netflix while I walk. But! I am not being as good about exercising the first thing in the morning, which is the best for me, so I might dig out some exercise videos and see if those help. I have one somewhere combines Hawaiian dance with exercise. Not that I can dance, but.
Oh, and how fun will it be to wear your sweater shirt and tights THIS winter, knowing how far you've come.
And, heh. I agree. I am always a bit depressed when I read someone's great and terrible revelation about how on EARTH did they EVER let themselves get to X weight. And X weight is my current, hard-won weight, or even some vaguely distant goal.
Mind, I've always been overweight so I don't really have that mindset about it; I'm just sorry that I never managed to keep going with past efforts. Well, not this time.
Summerblossom - I have to say, I am envious of your long hair! I have never been able to grow my hair too long. It is very, very fine and doesn't have much body. And the ends break like you would not believe. I am going to dig out a picture of myself and post it somewhere this weekend. The only ones I really have right now are from May, so it might be a few months out of date, but eh. The before will be good.
Anyway, I am from the below the Mason-Dixon line in the States, so it makes me laugh to hear Toronto called hot (hahaha), and after the summer we've had I would LOVE to have whatever sort of summer they have in Scandavia.
I hope your feet are healing nicely from the blisters, yuck.
I had to get my car inspected today, and it requires all sorts of work. Ugh! I think this means I will not be rewarding myself with a cut-and-color for a little while. That's okay, it was supposed to be my reward for getting under 300, and if I haven't done it yet I may not really want to do it. In total, I think the repairs will be... $600. Or so. Also apparently the manufacturer suggests replacing the struts at 50k miles. Which I am not doing, since it would cost $1000 and the mechanic says they look fine to him.
Aside from that, my day is going well. Dropped the car off at the mechanic and walked to work. I stopped at the bagel place and got a bagel with low-fat cream cheese. Ate half for breakfast and will either throw away the other half or eat it for lunch. Is it my imagination, or are strangers
nicer to me now?
My weight loss is going well. It is just clicking right now! I wanted to get to 290 lb in August and managed it. If I make it below 280 I will officially weight less than my driver's license says I weigh.
(The 275 lb goal on my ticker was what I thought my driver's license said I weighed, but apparently it is 280. So I am even closer to my first 'real' goal than I thought.
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SUMMERBLOSSOM ~ to another 
(well, it happens a lot, but I warned him becuz I worked in a lot of jobs here where the majority of workers were men and they know me, so I'm not going to be rude to them). I keep it to a nod or wave. DH is having to grow a bit right now ... 
