
You may have all heard about a “honeymoon phase” in regards to a diet or weight loss. Many of us who have been there know that it can definitely be a real thing. I’m one of those and this is my experience.
I didn’t start blogging until after I had already lost well over 140 pounds. I had already been on Weight Watchers for a year and a half. That is also about how long my honeymoon phase lasted.
As I mentioned the other day, I was hyper-vigilant during that period of time. I was so strict with myself and what I [ ... ]

I forgot to mention a couple of things in my post earlier. I just called my dad and he’s really so cute sometimes. Like
the time he made a cake for my mom for her birthday. But when I asked how he was doing, he said he was bored. It’s obvious that he really misses my mom.
But I did see something happen on the way into work today that had me laughing, and believe me when I say that laughing is something that usually doesn’t happen on the way into work.
I was stopped at an intersection and a group [ ... ]

As I suspected, I was up 6.6 pounds on the scale today. Craziness! That’s what? Something like 23,000 extra calories this week if I actually did gain that much? I do think some of it at least was water retention, but it’s still crazy. Oh well, it’s a new day and a new week!
My finger is still on the mend. It aches a bit, but very few sharp stabbing pains anymore, and I usually have to whack it on something (not intentionally, of course) or press on it accidentally for it to really hurt. I am concerned about getting the [ ... ]