10 Percent

i have made my first major weight watchers goal. i have lost 10% of my starting weight -- 33 pounds!

for meeting this goal weight watchers gives you a lovely keychain. you can't even find them on ebay (yeah, i looked). i am so excited. my next goal is 3 more pounds and i will be under 300. the goal following that is 275. i would like to be under 275 by january. i know i can't do that without exercise.... grrr. also, beginning the end of september starts the challenge of "holiday foods". i have already started to work on identifying alternative recipes. and then i would like to be under 235 by may 2007. which would make a 100 pound weigh loss. after that? i don't know what the goal line up will be.

i have decided to put my keychain on the outside of my purse. i am partial to smaller purses so i can slip them into my briefcase or the diaper bag. i hate carrying things.

getting the keychain kind of sucked. shrinking daddy was overreacting this morning and worried about getting to work so he did not want to stay for the meeting.

had we stayed for the meeting i would have been the recipient of thunderous applause, perhaps a wolf whistle or two (in my mind) and a much need public show of support for this very long battle i have ahead of myself.

he, being of the dreaded male gender, does not understand this. look at him, woowee, he lost 41 pounds by having someone else cook all his food and control what he eats.

he doesn't understand what is the big difference is between getting the keychain on your way out the door or getting it in front of 40 people.

he doesn't understand what it is like for the first time in your life meeting a weight watchers goal. especially when you have probably tried 10 times before. -- and failed.

he doesn't understand that when you weigh 335 how much weight your 10% goal is. and that i did this while i worried about his health, took care of his children and worked fulltime to provide for him.

Shrinking Daddy let me down today. and he knows it.