Dee's Graduation Weekend!

Sup!

So, I didn't weigh in this weekend.  With all of the festivities I barely had time to sleep....like for reals.  It was my nephew's graduation from high school! We had dinner Friday night out (I ate bread and salad and then only half of my greecian chicken and rice....very proud of self lol...I ate later believe me lol).  Then Saturday we had his party and honestly I was so dam nervous about my memory video for Dee that I only ate a chicken wing one spoonful of green beans and two forkfuls of salad lol.  And we dances ALL night long!  I wasn't as sore as I thought I'd be but I am still stiff lol.  Then Sunday we went to the bowling alley, all of the cousins.  I had some pizza and beer but I was also jumping around and dancing all night plus the bowling....I hope it all equalled out.  As well...last week I lost like 3.2 pounds!  Maybe that was the poo back up let go reaction?  Or maybe my body's loosing weight metabolism has finally caught up?  I'm also thinking that 5K had something to do with it lol. 

So, I'm going to try and continue to walk. Especially this week, since my braids are out and I could get in some good hair conditioning walking in this hot weather lol. 

I haven't written since creating the Command Center still, but I also haven't really been home that much (been gone 4 days lol).  But this week I hope to relax (think the waterbugs have retreated....at least I hope) and get some stuff cleaned up around the Penthouse.  Have plenty of leftovers and stuff that I shouldn't have to cook till Thursday night so that helps.  Am feeling good.. oh I almost forgot.  A LOT of people I haven't seen in a while kept asking me at Dee's party how much weight I'd lost...I was so confused lol.  I had on jeans and actually kind of a blousy top in my opinion and everyone was like "Wow how much have you lost.?" And I was like "Um 5 lbs since January" lol.  I forgot aboutmy recent lost.  But still people were like "No you've lost more or it's shifting!".  and when you hear this once I think "Oh they 're just  being nice" or "It must have been a lonnnng time since we last met".  But when I hear it from not one not two but three people in the same weekend. Perhaps, like I so frequently miss, everyone else is seeing changes that I cannot readily see. 

I mean I still have a double chin, flabby arms (though I can feel they are more slender) with back rolls (butter em up baby lol) but apparently those things must be shrinking lol.  Hey we're in new territory here not just in the weightloss but in accepting compliments.  I mean the thing is I think most bigger people like me are so often on edge waiting for the ever popular "insult veiled as a compliemnt" that when we get an actual compliment we react defensively.  I mean everytime someone gave me a compliment it was "Oh I ONLY lost 5 lbs".  I mean in that statement I basically unconcisously negated all my VERY HARD FOUGHT success.  I mean we all know I've been fighting with the scale for months but the ONLY thing that has keep me going is that I feel like I'm losing weight not only in my clothes but in my range of motion and in my energy level.  I mean I barely sat down sunday at the bowling alley and the night before I was literally bouncing on the balls of my feet all night I was so hyped lol.  It's exhausting but, that kind of payoff is also FUNNNNN!

Well, I'm going to enjoy my weightloss up to the point weather it be on the scale on not by simply continuing to recognize these succeses and celebrate them!

Boo yow,

Earl