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The first 10% off. I've made it. In September, I weighed 272 pounds. This morning, the scale read 244. In the last month, I've lost an inch off my waist, two off my hips, and 1/4" off my neck. I feel stronger and more energetic. Some of my clothes fit better than they have in over a year. Some look like the baggy stuff on models in a weight loss commercial. If the ubiquitous shorts I wear over stretch pants didn't have a drawstring, they'd be falling off.

I am by no means to my goal, but I can safely say that I am making consistent progress.

To get my next 10% off, I need to take off about 25 pounds. 219, here I come!

Oh, and since

dawnstar tagged me, I'll do this one. The generator has made most of them unreadable on my friends page, though, so I'll just type it in myself.

GUILTY PLEASURES

Culinary: Cookies and Cream Fudge -- it's sinfully delicious, but one serving is so small... (There is a nutritional info link on the recipe page.)
Literary: I still adore losing myself in the science fiction and fantasy novels I grew up on.
Audiovisual: Hands down, The Tomorrow People is my cheesy 70's British science fiction show of choice.
Musical: Alone, in my living room, you might catch me bopping along to rap, r&B, pop, or techno in French, German, Russian, Spanish, or some other language I don't speak. Some of it is as cheesy as the Heluva Good gift shop, but I just don't care.
Celebrity: These days, Johnny Depp's many theatrical incarnations can still get my bosom tingling in the way his Edward Scissorhands character did.

So, what are your guilty pleasures?

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*giggles* You sound like a sale! Buy Maureen, now 10% original ~~prices~~ poundage! :)

*hugs you proudly* I'm so glad you've found a system which works for you and keeps you motivated. It's not an easy thing, but you're doing great!

I think the prospect of abdominal surgery is an additional motivator... That, and imagining what it will be like to be the size I was in high school. I thought I was so fat back then! Now I look back and think, "Damn, I had a great figure!"

I TOTALLY get that, about looking back at HS pictures (literally, or just in your mind). I felt the same way for a long time. *hughughug*

***hugs back*** In fact, looking at this icon, it occurs to me that someday I will not look as much like that... :)

The green dress....

sigh...

I'm pretty sure I still have that. It might need to be mended, though.

wow! the tomorrow people. i haven't thought about that in YEARS. thank you.

Yay! Another who remembers!

mechanchaos has bought me two DVD sets of Tomorrow People episodes. (He remembers too.) I was so little when it was on TV that most of my memories of it are snapshot-like images from episodes. It is hilarious to watch through them as an adult, like savoring a sharp, aged cheese. Every now and then, what's in the episode and what I remember converge. I love that sense of deja vu. Up until the DVDs came into the house, all I had were those fragmentary memories, but The Tomorrow People had made a big impression on my young mind. Fun stuff!