First weigh-in, 1 February 2010 - 248.5 lbs
I kinda figured my weight the other day was a meal and my clothes on top of the stupid fat. When weight-loss goo-roos tell you to always wear the same thing when you weigh in and to do it first thing in the morning before breakfast, they ain’t kidding, kiddies.
Doing the same old stupid I always do the first day in. Despite my worst efforts, dinner turned out well. I didn’t get to finish grocerying yesterday thanks to Childis Horribilis, but we had enough supplies to pull off one of the meals on the weekly menu I drew up. Plugged it into Accu-Chef and what do you know, Dana Carpender needs to check her carb counts in her cookbooks. OK, seriously though, I used broccoli rather than the green beans initially called for (broccoli is the alternative given). Dunno if that made a difference and don’t really care. Anyway the carb count was lower according to the USDA database, which made me happy. (Accu-Chef plugs into it. Pretty handy.)
Also, oops, I am not supposed to have nuts during Induction, and there were walnuts in the stir-fry. Oh well, I’ll live.
So, here’s my starting photo. Actually, a collage of two photos. I look ridiculous, ballooning out to the gut and the butt and then tapering down to ankles.
I mean, compared to this, from December 1993…
Me (holding gingerbread house), December 1993
I was just a few days shy of twenty. I know we fill out a bit in the mid-twenties and everything, but damn, I must have filled out for about five Ethiopians while I was at it.
Mind you, during that same visit I put away most of a box of Hamburger Helper (cooked, of course, complete with the hamburger), and didn’t even blink.
Ah, the times they have a-changed. Time to change them back, I think.
This time we’ll skip the fucking noodle dinners.
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