Week Six

Well, the weigh-in scales continue to favour me - it's been averaging 3 - 4 pounds per week.  Every once in a while the weight stalls for 3, 4, 5 days, but eventually it starts to fall off again.  The trick is not to get discouraged, but trust that the lifestyle changes will pay off.

My closet of  'skinny clothes' is starting to get a little sparse.  I've started to collect frequent flyer miles at stores like Value Village and Phase 2 - it's amazing how often you can find brand new clothes if you look diligently.  When I shop, I'm looking for sizes that will fit me in a few weeks - that way I'm constantly re-building my 'skinny closet'.  I've had to start getting ready to go places 10 minutes early - sometimes I have to try on multiple 'outfits' before I find one that fits And I've got two rapidly growing piles: one for taking for alterations after my weight loss stabilizes, the other to donate back to Value Village - sort of a clothes rental scheme!

Today was a little difficult - I went out for lunch with a buddy from work who didn't know what I'm doing.  I planned to order a pot of green tea, so I sucked on water an tea while he ate - I wish I had a photo of his face when I ordered!  We had a great conversation about healthy habits, and it felt really great to be able to do it.

Physically, all is well but I've had some increased abdominal cramping the past 2 weeks, so I decreased the Benefibre and started on a probiotic capsule daily.  Seems to help.

In group this week we talked about building our support team.  I'm grateful to have a wonderful bunch of people around me, but I need to examine if there are support pieces missing and figure out how to ask for help and assert myself if I need to do that.

A special shout out to my # 1 supporter, through 'thick' and 'thin' - literally- my # 1 partner, Sue Aiken.