Almost another 2 pounds!

Seriously, people, protein really does work!!

Date Weight Total Lost Left To Go
9/20/2009 227 -99 77
9/21/2009 226.8 -99.2 76.8
9/22/2009 225 -101 75
9/23/2009 223.4 -102.6 73.4

From the 12th to the 20th I was STUCK hovering around 230 and 227. I just really wanted to get over that hump, so I turned to my tried and true "detox" method. The Atkin's Induction Plan.

Since I started it on Sunday, I've lost nearly 4 pounds in 4 days. 3.8 pounds in 4 days!!

Now I know this trend won't continue this dramatically, but man it sure feels good to get over that hump and watch the scale fall even lower than you expected!

I suppose if I keep this up in 4 more days I could be below 220. I could actually see 219!! I have not been that low since probably high school. I believe when I met my husband I was in the 220 range, and since then I've just gone up, up, up. Well, with a few downs in there too.

In high school I was always in the 200's. I think freshman year, when I started out I MAY have been slightly below 200 because I had been in the hospital for a while, and hadn't been able to eat for nearly 2 weeks. Of course to the doctors I was just "faking" my pain and inability to eat. That I was just trying to get out of going to high school. Never mind the fact I was crapping my guts out with blood in my stool. bu they just tell my mom it was all in my head. So when I was released and still had some pains I never said anything about it. Whatever it was though it's gone now, even though I had those same pains several more times throughout my life.

Any hoo . . .

I am still trying to wrap my brain around being 24 pounds away from being below 200. To being 199!!! That's just not me!! I don't know how long it will be before my head catches up to that idea. I woner if losing 24 more pounds will cause me to shrink out of my clothes again??? We're too poor for me to buy new clothes every month, LOL. I guess that's why we have thrift stores right?! ;) Even still I have some "new" used clothes I still haven't worn yet. I didn't even get that many new shirts, and only have 3 pairs of jeans I have to rotate through. I just don't want to over buy and then have to get new clothes.

The funny thing though is that when I my clothes were falling off of me in the beginning, I didn't want to shop for new clothes because I knew they'd still be "big" clothes. As in being 22, 24, or 26's. I seriously waited until my pants couldn't stay on me anymore. I also HAD to buy shorts for the summer.

Now though . . . I am anxious to get into a smaller size so I can just go out and buy the next smaller size!! Of course I want to be in a size 16 instead of an 18/20!! Who wouldn't want to be a size that didn't have a 20 or a 30 in the size?! I'm in the TEENS already!

It's funny how I am more anxious to get into a smaller size than I am in weighing less. LOL

Here's to finally enjoying shopping!