Quote of Inspiration

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Atilla and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



Tuesday, October 26, 2010

I Just Have to Say.........

I was going to wait until next week to weigh myself after eating no processed food for a week. I will certainly weigh myself at that time, but I just wanted to write in today and give an update.

In two days, eating nothing processed but eating full meals and still eating within my calorie range (drinking wine, eating salmon & avocado and eggs), I have lost..........

5.4 lbs.

So, I started on Sunday weighing 138.6. Monday morning I weighed 135.8. Today, I weigh 133.2.

I have worked out for 3 weeks, hard. And I've not been able to break 135. Now, I stop eating junk, and I drop 5 lbs.

Okay....I'm off for the day.

MamaP
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2 comments:

  1. Brooke P.October 26, 2010 at 10:56 AM

    Ummm. Awesome! I need to take a page from your book. Doctor told me I need to lose 50 lbs. Between giving up my Dr Pepper and junk food, I'm hoping to try and get a good start on it. He gave me a year but I think I can do it faster than that. We have a treadmill in our house for goodness sake. Anyway...great job, AP!

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  2. MAMA POctober 26, 2010 at 12:15 PM

    BP - Good luck with the 50! It's doable, for sure. The thing I've found is that you have to be very good. Very good. Anything shy of that just won't work. But when it works, it feels great!

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