Wiegh-In 18 and PICTURES

Skinny Pants!!!

Boy do I have a lot to talk about today!  I suppose I'd best go in chronological order so that I don't forget anything.  The picture you see to the left here is the image of an extremely excited fat girl wearing a pair of her semi-skinny pants.  Yep ... that's right boys and girls!  These pants have been sitting on the tippity-top shelf of my closet for over two years now just waiting for me to lose enough weight that I can wear them.  Now clearly, they're not skinny skinny-pants but these pants are the pants I wore on my very first date with Snack Monkey.  YEEE-HAW!  Here's how it came about that I even tried these bad boys on.  Snack Monkey wrapped his arm around me the other night and said "I think you're skinnier now than you were when we met."  I thought about that ... no way, couldn't be.  I had big hips/thighs but I also had a flat tummy when Snackerpoo and I met and I definitely don't have a flat tummy now.  But then I started looking at my pics and realizing that I'm losing most of my weight in my hips/thighs this time, which is odd because I usually lose off my tummy before anything else (excluding bra which, of course, is always first).  So I pulled them out, tried not get my hopes up too high and slipped them on.  Not only did they slip on and do up ... but I'm pretty sure that they're not as tight as I remember them.  NO SHIT!  I wore them for an hour just for the hell of it!

On the fairway

A golfing we will go, a golfing we will go.  High-ho the dairy-oh a golfing we will go.  Yepskers, we made a tee-time and hit the course.  They paired us with another couple who were extremely patient with my complete lack of golfing-ability and lots of fun.  Snack Monkey kept taking pictures of my butt though so I'm only going to share two (the non-butt shots) here.  Same shirt as the photo above but different pants because you can't wear jeans on the course.  We didn't keep score so don't even ask BUT ... yep, you guessed it.  I walked the full 18!  The golf cart you see behind me actually belongs to the other couple that we were teamed with and, as you can see, her ball is right next to mine in the grass there.  Snack Monkey had a cart too, for carrying the clubs, but me myself and I hoofed it the whole way!  That was on my list of goals so I can officially check it off!  CHECK!

Not flattering, but necessary.

Next on my list of things to brag about *winking smiley* is how far this little adventure of ours took me.  Although you can't see it in either photo I am wearing my pedometer on my right shoe so it counted my steps as I lugged my way around the course and came out to just over 6.5 miles which puts me well over my 20 mile goal that I had for last week.  And anyone who golfs knows that 6.5 miles on a golf course is NOT your typical treadmill style walk.  Up hills, down hills, and yes I will admit, even in sand traps once or twice.  There were times that I was huffing and puffing so hard I really had to wonder if I was going to make it on the first try but I kept just telling myself to stick with it, don't think about it, keep at it, and eventually we made it to the last hole.  It helped that we played in a four-some because that meant putting took a little bit longer and gave me a chance to catch my breath between holes.  P.s. not all of the "shirt" you see in this latest picture is filled with tummy, just FYI.  Some of it is just gravity and air.

Now for this morning's events.  I've lost 3.5 lbs this week with a weigh-in of 244 lbs this morning.  Weeeee aaaand today is the 14th as well so here is the latest progress pic.  Something I want to share with all of you is how I cut/crop these progress pics.  My width is changing but my height is not so I take the photo and crop it from the same spot at my neck to the same spot just below my feet each month.  I then resize the image so that the height is the same as the previous pictures, then crop the sides off to make the width uniform also.  That means that when you see me taking up less of the image (more door showing to my right and left sides) that's a testament to the fact that I'm getting narrower because the top to bottom perspective is remaining the same.  Ok ... you graphics people will get it, I might have confused others but it's a perspective method used by graphics artists, designers, photographers etc. which ensures that, even though my relationship to the door behind me might change week-to-week, my relationship to the size of the photo remains the same.  I hope that makes sense.  Here are the pics.

November 2010 (287 lbs)

March 2011 (244 lbs)

Food:
7 glasses of water
1 cup of coffee w/creamer
1 Fiber One bar
1 lean cuisine meal (chicken margarita)
1 serving beef and beer (a roast recipe in the food bible)
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Daily Caloric Intake: 827



Activity:
Made supper and that's it.  More on why tomorrow.