Ok, I have a little song for you, everyone sing along (to the tune of The Farmer in the Dell):
The fat girl stays the same
The fat girl stays the same
Hi-ho, the derry-o
The fat girl stays the same
Yes, I stayed the same this week. I know how to maintain my weight, aren't you proud? The only problem is my butt is still the size of Montana. In the past 2 weeks I have managed to either maintain or slightly gain. What the heck happened to my slow (but steady) weight loss? The only thing I can figure that messed me up this week was my being sick. I was sick for 3-4 days and when I'm sick all I want to do is curl up in the bed and whine. So I didn't exercise but 2 days the whole week, didn't log my food in my on-line journal and drank a lot of orange juice. BUT, I still expected to lose weight! I mean really, is that too much to ask?
So when I weighed and saw that I had stayed the same I felt grumpy, chubby and discouraged. I mean come on, who plateaus after only losing 13 pounds? I knew what I had to do to make myself feel better. Exercise? Uh, no. Eat a salad? Nope. Shop? Your darn skippy. Nothing makes you feel better than getting a bunch of new crap you don't need (and its calorie free too). Aren't these shoes I got just fab? They look all casual and comfy, just my style. Neutral toned Sketchers. Excellent, but my broken spirit wasn't fixed yet. I needed more things!
Since clothes shopping is even more torturous than eating right, I stuck to the shoe department. And what did I find peeking out at me from the sale rack? These cranberry colored Converse low tops. Who could resist? I already have hi tops in black and in white, but I needed a little color in my life. So into the cart they went. I was starting to feel better already.
Final stop Dillards. Seeing as how I was going to have to live with a double chin for a while longer I decided I needed something else to help me to take the focus off my wasted week.
It had to be something good. As I wandered through the purse section something shiny and black caught my eye. "Hello there" it whispered, "don't you want to take me home?" It was a beautiful, blingy Kathy Van Zeeland purse beckoning to me from across the room. It looked downright yummy and had the matching wallet too. "Yes" I whispered back, "You will be mine." So, even though my weight loss efforts were temporarily stagnant this week, I was still able to salvage the situation and come out triumphant. I hope that things change and I experience a nice weight loss next week. But if not, there is a great pair of Kenneth Cole sunglasses that I have been eyeing.......
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