Thank you

I am honored. When I left my keyboard at about 4:30 (AK time) I was behind in Blog Madness. Hubby and I chatted and had dinner. I snoozed a bit in my chair while he put together his new toy (an exercise cycle). And, then I came back to walk on the treadmill. 90 minutes of walking plus a 5 minute cool down and I had walked 3.38 miles.

I watched the end of a show with hubby and just now came back here - to find . . . that Timothy had won again. Thank you all for your votes. I am not sure when it starts, but there will be one more (just one) competition. My entry will come up against the Friendly Stranger's entry Deep Thoughts. I am sooooooooo toast.

It has been fun going through these elimination rounds. I keep facing blogs for which I have voted in previous rounds. The Friendly Stranger is one such. So, that sort of sucks.

At any rate - watch this • for news of the next round's start time. I know it is on the Blog Madness site somewhere, but just can't quite put my finger on it right now. I'll let you know when I do.

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We pause for a pictorial interlude and true confession time.

Confession is good for the soul - you have been reading that I have been working at losing some of this extra poundage. You've been very supportive and I appreciate it more than I can say. Although I started the 10000 Step program with little thought to losing weight, once it hit me that I was doing so, I got with that program, too.

I give you first, a photo of me taken in October, 2002. I had taken part in a Poetry Slam up in Anchorage and a friend took my photo. I'm holding a "Flat ____" cutout sent to me by a friend's daughter. Flat ______ attended the poetry slam with me.

Confession . . . 336 pounds. Oh my goodness! Gah!

Now, here I am one year later. I have trouble seeing the difference, but there is plenty of one. This is six weeks into the 10K Step Program. True confession time: 293 pounds. That is a loss of 43 pounds in one year - 11 pounds since the beginning of the 10K Step program. Hey, we're making progress here!

And, that brings us to a photo taken by the Ladybug for me today. Those jeans are numerically the same size as the pair in the first photo - but they are Lee (I'm sure there should be a TM there) jeans and they are not stretch jeans and they fit much differently than that first pair do now. (should have taken a comparison photo with them, huh?) True confession time: today's weight 274.5. Total loss since October, 2002 is standing at 61.5 pounds.

So, while I hate the thought of admitting what I weighed then - and even what I weigh now - I am (rightfully, I think) proud of what I have accomplished. That's the weight of two of my grandkids combined that has slipped off my bones now. There is still a pesky 100 pounds that need to begone from my bones and I am working at getting rid of those unwanted fat globules, also. Once I get down there, well, we will see.

I have a photo of me taken about 15 years ago when I weighed 150 pounds or so. I am not sure if I want to get down that low again. I was quite thin and some said I did not look well. I looked GOOD, mind you, just not well. (to them) So we will see. In the meantime I will just keep on clicking off those miles on the treadmill and look forward to spring and summer when I can get out onto the bike paths near here.

Carry on, friends.

Posted by Purplemoose at February 28, 2004 09:38 PM