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How was your Labor Day weekend? Mine was failish. We stayed with Matt’s great-aunts just south of Buffalo, NY. They asked him about food preferences before we ever got there, and I’m not sure why. They’re great cooks, don’t get me wrong, but he told them I’m low-carbing, and guess what our dinner was the last night we were there? This whole-grain and cheese casserole. It was some kind of so-called “ancient wheat,” kinda like spelt, only not. Oh, and croutons. Let’s not forget the croutons. To add to the fun, they’re the type who were raised to eat what’s put in front of you at meals and you’re not supposed to have food at any other time, and if you don’t finish your meal, too bad, you’re going hungry. Granted, I’m 36, but I didn’t feel like fighting that particular battle. The other foods available were steamed broccoli and a salad with onions and peppers in it, and I despise onions and peppers (with the exception that I’ll eat something with pureed onion–if not excessive–or onion powder in it). Even if the salad hadn’t been littered with culinary landmines, have you ever tried getting full on leaves and roots? Don’t work so hot, do it?
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Sorry about the blur! It looks worse in closeup. I do a rush job sometimes because I don’t want the scale shutting off before I get the picture taken. D’oh!
My appetite’s still pretty good. I had a bit of weight gain over the weekend but it seems [...]
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After that one week where I lost eight pounds, sometimes it feels like I am swimming through molasses with the weight loss. Fun! But at least it is still a general downward trend.
I have pretty much lost all fear that I will ever see the 230s again. That’s awesome. And it’s looking more and more like I will be in the two-teens within the next month. Right now I’m wearing a pair of shorts that I could sort of squeeze into when I began this latest journey in February, but that now fit me something like normally. I am completely comfortable in them at this point. Even when they’ve just come out of the drier and I haven’t stretched them at all yet. (They’re denim.)
I can’t wait til they’re loose on me. 
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Good thing I weighed in Monday, huh?
Some of you may not be aware but I am living platonically with my little girl’s dad. Long story, probably boring to most of you, just we’ve got sort of a family arrangement here without in fact being what conservatives would call an “intact family.” Part of [...]
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I had a bad moment a couple days ago when it was looking like I might inch back up to the 230s. Nooooo! Not after all this work! Never again! Ew ew ew ew ew!
*whew* Looks like it was a false alarm. Hopefully after Aunt Flo visits, [...]
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Sorry about the blurry but I find that if I try to re-shoot, the scale subtracts half a pound the second time I step on. While I guess that is a bit of a psychological boost, come on now. I’m losing the weight anyway. The half-pound will disappear [...]
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I’ve been through the emotional wringer lately. A lot of that’s been self-induced. It’s obvious I have a lot of emotional baggage to dump along with the excess fat. Delightful experience, let me tell you. Losing weight is far more fun, even if there are foods that are off-limits. If you have to choose between the two, ditch the fucking bread.
OK, OK, I suppose we’re happier in the long run if we dump emotional baggage, so goes the theory. But still. And I don’t quite believe I’m going through all this because I’m losing the weight. I don’t believe people get fat because they’re hiding from their feelings. I don’t have the space to get into it here, just know that I don’t believe that. It’s just another way to paint fat people as defective. Funny how we want to zero in on every possible defect except the actual one facing fat people; when it’s suggested it might just be a metabolic defect or hormonal imbalance, most people laugh that idea off. They’d rather believe we have Issues. Whatever.
Anyway. This is about my progress so let’s not get toooooo philosophical.
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Allons enfants de la Patrie… Le jour de gloire est arrivé! Bonne Bastille pour tous les français partout.
(In case you didn’t know, mine is a French surname. Mon français est terrible, though. Thank God for Internet translators.)
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Uh. Eight pounds in one week? Whoops. I mean, I’m [...]
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I haven’t been that great this past week. I haven’t been eating enough, and on occasion when I do eat it’s something that is definitely NOT on the Induction list. Several days ago I had a big-ass bowl of popcorn, for instance. Now, I tend to eat popcorn [...]
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Fixed what would be termed a real breakfast* today for the first time in ages.
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