Healthy You Challenge Check In #23

Starting Weight (5/13/09): 320 lbs.
Last Week's Weight: 293.6 lbs.
Current Weight (10/20/09): 293 lbs.

Weight lost this week: 0.6 lbs.
Total Weight Lost: 27 lbs.

Next week I'll post new measurements. For now, some non-scale victories:

1. I can touch my thumb and index finger around my wrist.
2. My si 16 jean jacket fits in the shoulders again (can't button it yet, but it's cute enough to wear).
3. Favorite black Avenue leggings getting lose in the caves.
4. On Sunday, I bought a size 20 dress off the rack at Ross without trying it on. It fit perfectly.
5. Got two orders of fish tacos on Sunday. Only ate one of them.
6. Got an excellent night's sleep last night. Superb.

Riesling with Links

1. I bet the new Ghostface Killah album will sound even better on the treadmill.

2. Truths you know and should hear again. From dietblog.

3. You should be reading Who Ate My Blog?.

4. Fatshionista will be on the radio tomorrow!

5. McDonalds is strangling America. From strangemaps.

I Feel Fat When...

1. I'm wearing clothes I think are ugly.
2. I'm wearing baggy clothes--even cute ones.
3. I get an uncontrollable urge to gorge on food even though I'm not hungry.
4. I get an email that someone has posted a photo of me on facebook.
5. I'm sitting in a tiny car.
6. I'm trying on clothes in awful dressing room lighting.
7. At the doctor's office.
8. I'm at the hair dressers with wet hair.
9. I order a large amount of takeout food.
10. I get chub rub.