Unloading

Yesterday's post helped me unload a little bit. Thank you Steve & Katie for your comments. I started today with a slightly lighter heart - when I got on the scale in the morning, I saw a loss. I was hoping for the loss, but I wasn't sure what the scale would do - would I maintain the loss I had over the last few days, or would my niece's birthday party bite me in the ass three days after the fact?

Today I hit my lowest weight yet. I'm so pleased. I'm so pleased that I didn't even "reward" myself with a dinner out. I came home (after a 12 hour day, thank you) and had a tofu-cabbage salad, and cheese and crackers.

The rest of the day was a pain in the butt, but not as bad as it could have been - I wasn't the driver of the jackknifed tractor-trailer that resulted in me being out of the office today for an hour longer than expected at lunch time. I hope he's OK and no one was hurt - but it sure looked bad.

Then I had back-to-back meetings - a friend had to beg some food from the closed cafe so I could have some lunch at 2 pm! At the last meeting, I had to shut down a woman that just wouldn't stop taking pot shots at a project I worked on last year. After the fourth time, I told her to move on - she's wrong and to just deal with it. She didn't like it, but too bad. I rarely get that worked up, but I had had about enough. She has managed to eliminate every bit of professional respect I might have had for her - and I'm not the only one that feels that way.

I was so angry when I left the meeting, and I realized that it was bringing me down from feeling good about my accomplishment.

Speaking about accomplishments - thank G-d the Chilean miners have been rescued and are safe. I pray that they will not have long term harmful (or short term, either) effects of being underground for so long.

So anyway, I unloaded last night, and today I unloaded another 2.3 lbs for a total loss of 52.2 lbs. Now I just have to get through Oktoberfest Friday night and an anniversary dinner Saturday night. I've decided that I'm bringing containers, ice packs, and a small cooler to pack up my leftovers at Oktoberfest. That way I won't feel like I need to eat everything at once so I don't waste money, and I won't have to feel guilty about buying a lot of different things because I'll be able to take everything home and eat little bits over the weekend, or freeze or later.