Kate

Right after the move, I weighed myself and at that point I'd lost about eight pounds. I figured that this was mainly due to water loss, since we'd been doing so much work in the heat. I was happy about it, but I didn't expect I'd be able to keep it off once I got re-hydrated.

So, yesterday was Tracey's birthday (my BIL's wife, and one of the most wonderful people I know) and we had steak and potatoes and cake and ice cream, and generally ate a lot of food. This morning I decided to weigh myself again, figuring it would be a more realistic assessment than the one a few weeks ago.

And I'd lost 2.5 more pounds! Yay!

My only gripe is that the only place I can tell I've lost weight by visual inspection is my thighs. Not that I'm not pleased by that, but my legs have always retained some muscular definition. I just have very muscular legs. (This is probably why that's the first place I can see the change.) But, of all the places on my body, my legs are the last place I need to show weight loss. Oh well, you take victories where you find them, right?

Now I just need to get motivated to go to our dinky little community gym to keep the momentum going. Maybe Mer and I can motivate each other. She's trying to get back into shape in hopes of joining up with her old soccer team again. Since she spent essentially all spring sick, she wasn't in condition to do the June try-outs, but her coach has said she can try-out next month at their start of season training camp. It would be REALLY nice to have something to occupy Mer's time other than whatever devices she can come up with on her own, and she misses soccer. She's been playing since she was eight and is really pretty good.

Anyway, I need to go work on my apartment. It's still looking way too much like a storage unit.

Hope everyone is having a great day!