Day 9 began with another blueberry croissant. I'm getting new tires on my car so I was housebound all day. Usually that means a day of eating. But not anymore. Didn't have anything else until dinnertime and felt like a scrambled egg with sausage sandwich on white toast. I actually had 1 1/2 sandwiches. For something sweet -- 3 Milano cookies. In the past, I would have eaten 3/4 of the bag.
The biggest change so far has been the lack of candy eating. Usually, when I go upstairs to watch TV in the evening, I eat candy for a solid hour....lots and lots of candy. I started out by cutting it down and now I haven't even had any today at all. Kudos to me.
Here's something I noticed when I started doing this blog. Initially, when I thought of this idea in 2010, I thought it was a unique idea. I had just seen the movie Julie and Julia, where an aspiring chef, blogged about cooking Julia Childs recipes for 365 days. So I thought it would be a great idea to blog everyday about losing weight. And then I thought of my most interesting concept....I'd try to lose a pound a week for 52 weeks and call the blog "52lbs. in 52 weeks"---- ingenious, right? Or so I thought until I googled it and found that there are many people doing this. So much for my great idea. But here's the sad thing. I clicked on most of the links and most of them ended up dead trails after a few weeks. Some of the weight loss blogs didn't even last a week. I don't think I found one where it came to fruition in the end and the blogger was successful -- myself included. The blog I started in 2010 ended on February 14th after 42 days of blogging and a weight loss of 14.5 pounds....it must have been the candy I got as a Valentine's Day present that did me in.
So now I'm trying the same concept again. I think I'll tell my husband "No Candy for Valentine's Day" this year and see if I can get past February 14th.
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