Previous Weight: 126
Current Weight: 124
Goal Weight: 115

Hey, so far I’ve raised $8 for Natures Nursery, which is my Weight Loss Challenge charity of choice. That is almost as exciting for me as being able to put on jeans fresh out of the dryer and not have the circulation to my legs cut off at the waistband.

What’s She Talking About?

This week I asked myself exactly what the point of writing about my weight-loss was. (Other than success through public self-humiliation, of course.) Blogging brings into focus that fine line between writing for yourself and writing for your readers. Most of you don’t come here to read detailed descriptions of my love-handles, you come here to see if I have succeeded in proving my father right and removing one of my fingers with a sawsall. I know this.

I feel like it’s a little untruthful though, to be all badass and confidence on your computer screen when in real life I am also an actual female, who has actual female hangups about my weight, the number of gray hairs that have taken up residence on my head, whether or not my boyfriend is going to leave me for a 19 year old who still has perky breasts. You know, the usual. 

I just worry about how I look in my tool belt more than my bathing suit is all.

The Portion Control Continues

Aside from making a concerted effort to go to the park 3-4 times a week, my weight loss thus-far has been driven mostly by portion control. Which brings about an idea that I had, which I am surprised in this era of weight-loss products no one has invented yet.

Portion appropriate table settings.

I know that someone invented the portion plate, okay? But I’m not eating off something that has pictures of a mouse, baseball, and deck of cards on in when there is company around. Maybe not even in private. Seriously people. I’m talking about real dinnerware that looks just like my regular dinnerware, but smaller.

Like a bowl that only holds 1 cup of cereal, soup, or pasta. Plates that are only 7″ diameter. And huge water glasses that hold 16 oz worth of H20, since that’s how much I think you should drink at every meal. (Then you’ve almost hit the recommended 2L per day.)

I measured my bowls, and they hold more than 3 cups worth of food. I’ve been eating cereal out of my little 1c ramekins or coffee mugs instead.

I wouldn’t mind smaller silverware as well… only good could come from being able to shovel less food in my mouth at a time. I’m just sayin.

Some People Are Starting To Get It

Before I even started the weight-loss challenge I was at TGI Friday’s and couldn’t stop bombarding MysteryMan with the effusive praise I had for their shot-glass sized desserts. $2 bite sized desserts… as opposed to their regular sized desserts, which not only contain more calories than I (should) eat in one day,  but make me near comatose from sugar overload.

Now they’ve added some “Right Portion, Right Price” items to their menu. Hel-lo smart people. More places need to jump on that train.

The other thing I love are the Ben & Jerrys singles, which are just enough. I don’t need to eat a bowl of icecream the size of my head (obviously) to be happy. I’m thinking of getting little half-cup gladware containers so I can dish out my favorite Handel’s flavor (banana cream pie) into easy to-go desserts. (Only around 150 calories each.) Even if I’m not going anywhere with them besides the patio. It will definitely keep me from eating an entire pint at a time “on accident.”

Enough About The Jiggly Parts of Me

Okay, okay. You’ve had enough. I made a leopard print crooked broom last week for MysteryMan’s sisters birthday, because she is totally in to animal prints. It turned out ab-fab, if I do say so myself, and I’ll post pics later today to prove it. Cause we can’t get enough of belly rolls and brooms on this website, baby.

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