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198!
I weigh first thing Saturday morning in my pj's, before I even taken my meds (Synthroid). This morning I was 198. I haven't been under 200 since at least 2001. I know the morning of my son's boot camp graduation, I weight 210, and that was about April 2001. I remember thinking I had to get a handle on the weight. I…
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51 Pounds Down Since December~Pics
As of this morning I am "just" overweight, no longer "obese," at least according to some of the charts I've read. I lost 13 pounds between annual checks from November 2011 to October 2012. That sparked my resolved to lose more, to finally lose the weight I'd gradually put on since 2001 AND I was 30 pounds overweight at…
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NSV--Jury Duty
I received the dreaded summons in the mail a few weeks ago. I knew clothing would be an issue. I'm currently in an 18. I've given all my bigger clothes away, because they are swallowing me. I have some jeans and capris, but no dress slacks in my current size. I have them in size 14, but I'm not there yet. Dug around in my…
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Silly NSV
I am, for lack of a better term, a picker. As in "American Pickers." I go out to estate sales on weekends to find things to sell on eBay. I've been doing this for almost 12 years, after years of teaching high school. I've slowly put on about 70 pounds in those 12 years. Today, I was at a sale in the garage, looking through…
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Kind've Whiny but Thoughtful And Reflective
When I lost 128 pounds in 1996/97 there were 3 people who said absolutely not one word to me about my weight loss--my best friend, my BROTHER and a former professor, all three of whom were people whom I didn't see regularly, people I didn't see regularly and to whom the difference in appearance would have been drastic.…
