Weigh In 3/30/10 – Monday DID Come

First, the cat’s out of the bag!  I told my mom about my blog!   I know!  *gasp*  But Mr. Carmine Famiglietti mentioned it on my Facebook page (my fault for not telling him it was a secret!) and since I couldn’t bring myself to delete his comment, I figured I’d spill the beans since she’d probably see it anyway.  And I didn’t want her to find out like that.  So if y’all would give my mom a great big “Hi,” I would appreciate it!

My mom’s one of my best friends in this world, so supportive, so it shouldn’t change my writing too much.

At least now she won’t look at me like I’m nuts when I’m doing things like taking pictures of Reese’s Easter Eggs at the grocery store. 

Now for the good stuff….drumroll please…..I lost:

2.7 pounds this week!!!!  Yahooo!  That means two awesome things:

• I am back to having lost 91 pounds again! (Come on 100!)
• I’ve lost a total of 10.8 lbs just in the last four weeks alone!

Now, I’m wondering when I’m going to start actually seeing it and feeling it….

Most (okay all) of you know that I was on a long sabbatical for a while.  I didn’t blog, I didn’t read blogs, I didn’t track my food, I ate whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.  It was never an intentional thing.  It came on gradually.  I think I started to realize that if I cheated a bit here and there, then it didn’t really affect my weight all that much.  I got cocky.  I also started to not care as much.  I just wanted to eat.  I like eating.  I like binging.  There I said it.  I don’t like being overweight, but apparently I’ve liked eating more for most of my life.

Throughout this period of eating free-for-all, especially when I realized how quickly I was re-packing on the pounds, I kept telling myself that “this is the last day.  Tomorrow, I’m right back on it.”  And yet, tomorrow always had something new to tempt me with: more ice cream, more pizza (can I hear a collective yum?), donuts at work, an offer to go out to eat.  It was always tomorrow, and yet it was the tomorrow that never came.

My mom can attest to the fact that I constantly said, “this is the last weekend.  First thing Monday, I’m back on it.”  Well, for many months, Monday never came either.

Back when I was first fortunate enough to see the movie, “Lbs.,” which you all know I’ve been raving about, I wrote a review entitled “Monday Came” (back on 2/23/10).  At the very end of it, I said that my Monday had come.  This is what I said:

Carmine’s character, Neil, states this in the trailer: “Monday came and I started.  . . .  How many times?  It might be a thousand.  But on 1,001, I started.”

Well, today is my Monday #1,001 (give or take) and I’m starting.  I’m going to do it.

When I wrote that, I wasn’t sure if I was telling the truth or if I was just saying it to be saying it.  I had hoped that it was true, but I didn’t trust myself enough to know for sure.

Well, you know what?  My Monday DID come.  I AM doing it.  So what about you?  Has your Monday come?