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Lose 100 pounds.

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Excersize at least 3 times a week

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Cross my legs

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not be the biggest person in the crowd.

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Fit comfortably in an airplane seat

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  • Comment by subacloud on 9/2/10 3:00 pm
    Hi Chris, I'm so excited for you! Sending you all my best wishes for an easy surgery and recovery time. The loser's bench has a spot just for you!
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Observations
posted on 5/30/11 7:37 pm
Well the warm weather finally hit Mass.  We all woke up on Saturday morning to a 30 degree increase with major humidity!  Seriously mother nature, I wore a heavy fleece in the middle of the week.  This major temperature change lends it self to realizing that I had no light warm weather cloths in my current size.  All my stuff recently purchased was geared for work and 50-60degree weather.  Not mid 80's with high humidity.  So off I went, after my Zumba and 3 mi walk, to do a blast shopping in sweat shorts trying to find decent but cheap options to get me threw.  Sigh...  I felt like such a scrub.  Especially since I make a effort to look put together these days.  I did eventually find a nice jean skirt, a pair of capri's and cargo shorts.  That will get me threw for a bit, as I only get to wear them on weekends. 

Sunday I spent the day helping my parents prep the summer house bathroom for painting.  I was the one climbing the ladder to put the trim tape up and eggin my father on with one more task.  It was a new feeling for me to be agile (sp?) and nimble.  I wasn't dripping in sweat or feeling overly exerted.  In fact if I hadn't had to catch the ferry I easily could have gone a few more hours. 

With these summer weight cloths on I'm taking more stock in my limbs.  I catch my knee's or elbows out of the corner of my eye and it hard to grapple that they are mine.  Today my husband and I went to the movies and just sitting the chair felt different.  It's a reinforcement that there's less of me to move threw space.  I take up less volume and my limbs move differently.  I find that there are times when I put more force behind a movement (getting up, leaning over) and will lose my balance as my center of gravity has changed.  I think the exercise is helping me get used to this new and continually changing body and its only a few times here and there that I stumble.  Generally it is in situations I haven't been since I started losing the weight, I attribute it to older in-grained muscle memory and spacial recognician.

I also stocked up today at Savers 1/2 off sale; got 2 jeans, 3 pants, 1 pair shorts, 1 skirt in the next size down!  size 16!  WOW!  Pretty amazing to think that I'll be there by the end of the summer.  I haven't been that size since highschool.  Plus I love the fact that I can find great steals on stuff there... 3 brand named items still had tags. 


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