Slowly but surely, this tortoise is plugging along.
In the beginning of the year I was dropping on average 3 pounds a week
-- and while I knew that wouldn't go on forever, I'm still wishing I
could pull 3 pound weeks. But alas, today's weigh-in shows a .8 kilo
drop from last week, which is 1.76 pounds. So I'll plod along slowly,
like the tortoise in the race. I know it's more likely I'll lose it
and keep it off if I go at this pace, but when you have a lot to lose
you just get impatient. Those 3 pounds weeks just FELT good.
So the stats as of today are:
97.4 kilos / 214.73 pounds currently
0.8 kilos / 1.76 pounds down since last week
17.2 kilos / 37.92 pounds lost so far this year
38.4 kilos / 84.4 pounds to goal.
It's incredibly COLD and rainy today -- I really hate winter in
Australia. They are all amazed at how much I complain about the cold
being as I'm from Wisconsin and it doesn't even snow here. But I
remind them -- at home it's only cold OUTSIDE! We have heat! I never
had to see my own breath in the kitchen when I woke up, or bundle up in
sweats and a blanket to sit and watch TV. We have a little space
heater, but you have to close off the room you're in to get it warm,
and if you have to go into another room for something ... BRRRRR!!
I think I'll be looking for homes with fireplaces from now on. LOL.
We saw 2 homes today, both vacant and both a far cry from what the
description made them out to be. With some work, they both have a lot
of potential, but we won't have enough money to put the work into them
for some time. But what really got me is the first place -- they
didn't even bother to clean out the mouse traps and droppings in the
pantry before the open house! Do you WANT to sell it???