Someone called me TINY today- Watch out It's ON !!
**POSTED AFTER MIDNIGHT SO IT WILL SHOW AS A TUESDAY POST**
Ok, so I've decided that I'm going to be doing the WW Points system once again. If you've read one of my earlier posts, you'll see I lost 30 pounds doing it before. Then I quit going and a lost a little more on my own doing the plan here at home but just not going to the meetings. Then I stopped doing the plan and stayed in the 150's for 3 or 4 months. **** Note: I lost 50 pounds on my own with no pills before I even started going to WW. I did my MIL's diabetic diet plan. Diabetic diet and then WW equals right at 81 pounds*
Well, since starting the Phen on 2-23-07 (which was 11 days ago) I've lost 7.8 pounds. My weight thing on this page says a little more than that , but that was my weight a couple of days BEFORE going to the doctor, I was a little bit down from that weight when I went to the doctor and weighed. The day I went to the doctor I was 155.4 pounds and now I'm 147.6. so that's 7.8 pounds in 11 days. Not too shabby in my opinion. 
Starting tomorrow - (March 6, 2007) I'll be eating 20 Points per day. My cousin and her mom started going back to WW 2 weeks ago and they asked me if I wanted to go with them, I thanked them but declined. I don't have the time to dedicate to it, I never know when I'll have to rush my MIL to the E.R. And with the long hours my husband is working now, it would be up to me to be the one to take her. Besides, I'm not the type of person who needs to go to the meetings. I mean I like them and think it's fun to get out of the house and go out to eat at a Subway after the meeting, but I can be just as rigid at home alone just as I could if I was going to weigh in on a weekly basis. Once I get into the mindset, it's on!
I've got an Internet friend that lives in California who joined up at her local WW today too, so we are all on the plan! I'm SO excited and happy that we will be doing it together. 
My cousin told me in an E-mail today that her SIL called her on her lunch break today and they were talking about how they spent this past weekend. My cousins SIL said she was looking through some pics taken last year at a family celebration we all had together and she said and I quote: " I can't believe how tiny Tater is, she looks so different now." ** Tater is my nickname and I've had it my whole life** But the fact that she called me tiny was just jaw dropping to me AND my cousin.
Now you must understand, this person doesn't normally say things like that about me or anyone else for that matter. We had a family dinner February 6, 2007 at a Mexican restaurant and I was 155 that day, (I have it marked on my calendar) and she didn't say one word to me about how I looked or that she noticed I had lost weight or anything like that. It didn't bother me at all. I KNOW I am not 236 pounds- size 20 any longer, I didn't need her to say something to know I've done really good. But that just goes to show you, there are always gonna be people who will not utter the first word to you about your weight loss even if you've lost nearly 90 pounds since they last saw you. I don't look to other people to make me feel better about myself. I use to, but I don't anymore. I go by how I feel about my body not what other people think or feel about it.
And just for the record, I am NOT tiny, I'm smaller, but tiny is not a word I'd use to describe myself. Maybe when I lose this last 27.6 pounds I might be tiny then, I don't know. I can't remember what it feels like to weigh 120 pounds to be honest with you. It's been so long, I just can't remember. I look back at old pics, but that really doesn't trigger any feelings I had other than the fact I really thought I was fat back then. I really had no clue did I? I was 18 years old between 115 and 120 and I thought I was huge.
I had a good weekend, I cleaned a lot more and got a lot of things done around the house. I done very well on eating. Sunday and today I did HORRIBLE on drinking my water, so I'm making a commitment to myself to drink 100 oz of water tomorrow and every day the rest of this week. I didn't have a problem doing it last week, I just think I was lazy about it Sunday and today.
I would like to jump back real quick to the fact that someone referred to me as tiny. That right there made me want to work even harder at losing the rest of this weight. It really got me thinking and I would LOVE to be thought of as *tiny* after nearly busting out of my size 20's for a long, long, long, time. It's ON baby! I will succeed and I will reach my goal of losing 27.6 pounds by my 36th birthday this August 2007.
((I only have to lose 5 pounds a month to make that goal))
So that's the update for now. I'm taking my MIL to the dentist tomorrow and I'll be carrying my water bottle with me. What are you going to do today that's different than yesterday to help you get to your goal? Until then-
Wishing you all the very best,
~Tink~