This morning when I weighed, I was at 199! Woo-hoo!! I haven’t seen that number in a while!

I remember being somewhere around that when we moved into this house (3 years ago), and I dropped about 5 pounds or so, with leaving my mom’s house and all her sweets and breads, plus all the unpacking and moving, and carrying boxes of books upstairs. Then gradually, I gained it back. That was three years ago. I don’t remember how long it took me to top 200 again (I first did it during pregnancy), but I’ve been there for probably at least 2&1/2 years, and perhaps more. Yikes. Not good.

Oddly enough, I haven’t been particularly GTD-compliant. I went to my mom’s on Thursday (we were supposed to show our house, but that fell through… again!), and she was making her home-made hamburger buns. I had already had a bit of some new dessert she had made, so since I had “broken my diet already, this day is a bust,” and I ate I think 4 buns. Wow! Plus more of that candy!! Then on Friday, I went with my mom to visit a woman in our church who recently found out she has cancer, and is likely terminal; and then since it was lunch-time, we went to the local Mexican restaurant (delicious!!) and I gorged myself not just with the chips and salsa, but the fajita chicken nachos. OH!! It was so good! But afterward (both days), it didn’t sit well, and I felt pretty crummy. Then my lactose intolerance (or was it the Mexican spices?) kicked in, and *ahem* I preemptively lost all the weight I might have gained with one trip to the bathroom. So, I was tired of feeling like a moldy dishrag, so yesterday, I was perfectly compliant. And I meant for today to be another 100% day… but I forgot to take my lunch to church, so I ended up eating just whatever was there (trying to do good for the meal), and then I ate a bit of dessert… and then some of another of my mom’s new desserts (yes, that’s plural — I probably ate 5 different things). So, now I’m not feeling so great, and tomorrow the scale will probably reflect that. But TODAY, this morning, the scale said 199, so I’m happy with that.