I am now below 205! With my analog scale marking weight in 5-pound increments (and with the ticks so small it’s sometimes hard to distinguish single pounds), it’s always a thrill to drop below the next big(-ish) marker, because then I know for sure that I have lost weight, without having to squint, and hoping that it’s not just my perspective that is making it look like I’ve lost weight, when I haven’t.

This week, I mowed my yard, which took about an hour and a half. While that was all the exercise I did this week it did cause me to drop three pounds in one day! I didn’t blog it, because I was afraid that it was just temporary — perhaps water weight from sweating, or something. But it’s now been several days and the weight loss is still there — 203 lb. That’s still a lot — I feel bad about being glad that I still weigh as much as I do; but, hey, I weigh less than I did!

Another success — I was at my mom’s house, when she had a large order for cookies (sugar cookies, oatmeal cookies, and chocolate chip cookies). I love cookies. I love sweets. Two of the three kinds need to be frosted, and I helped. Usually, I pop in a few cookies along the way when I frost them (or when I don’t — I love chocolate chip cookie dough and fresh cookies, too!), plus extra frosting — especially when there is frosting left over. But I didn’t this time. In some ways, I wasn’t even tempted; in other ways I was very tempted. I also cleaned out my mom’s freezer, and she had a lot of various desserts in there, that ordinarily I would have eaten. But I didn’t. Success!

Then, I went to my mom’s house again, and she had made delicious garlic-cheese bread. The house smelled amazingly wonderful. I could probably have eaten half a loaf by myself. I did give in and had one small, thin piece, but that was it. I call that a success!

On Friday, my husband wanted a pizza when we were already out, and I had just one piece (because I was soooo hungry). I was tempted to eat more, although it was supreme which I don’t particularly care for. But I fixed myself something else to eat, and resisted. Success!

Finally, last night, we went to a neighbor’s birthday party, and I didn’t eat anything except once I licked my fingers after putting a piece of cake on my son’s plate. They had a full meal — hot dogs, BBQ sandwiches, potato chips, potato salad (which I don’t like anyway), cole slaw, beans, spinach dip, and another thing or two. Ordinarily, I would have had a plate full, even if I wasn’t terribly hungry (and I had had a snack about an hour before going, plus a glass of lemon-water right before we left), plus dessert. So, to get out with only licking my fingers once — oh, yeah, baby — success!!

So, I’ve been following the genotype diet for at least a month, and have been watching the quantities of what I’m eating for three full weeks. I’m feeling much better, and I’m certainly losing weight. Plus I know I’m eating more healthfully, since I’m eating many more fruits and vegetables, and much less processed foods.