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felicula ([personal profile] felicula) wrote2007-02-06 12:59 pm
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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 [livejournal.com profile] 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?

[identity profile] dawnstar.livejournal.com 2007-02-06 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
*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!

[identity profile] blackfelicula.livejournal.com 2007-02-06 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
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!"

[identity profile] dawnstar.livejournal.com 2007-02-07 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
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*

[identity profile] blackfelicula.livejournal.com 2007-02-07 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
***hugs back*** In fact, looking at this icon, it occurs to me that someday I will not look as much like that... :)

[identity profile] mechanchaos.livejournal.com 2007-02-08 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
The green dress....

sigh...

[identity profile] blackfelicula.livejournal.com 2007-02-08 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
I'm pretty sure I still have that. It might need to be mended, though.

[identity profile] laefin.livejournal.com 2007-02-06 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
wow! the tomorrow people. i haven't thought about that in YEARS. thank you.

[identity profile] blackfelicula.livejournal.com 2007-02-06 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Another who remembers! [livejournal.com profile] 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!