Riding My Asterisk Off

…one mile at a time…

There is a downside to the whole NurtriSystem plan. The food is good, its filling, it works, but… When you buy your food, you get 28 days’ worth. If you choose autoshipping, they’ll send you the same thing everytime unless you tell them to change things. All god. But you buy 28 days’ worth, and …

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::jumps up & down::: Down 3.5 pounds for the week! A small personal victory for myself yesterday: I was out running errands and managed to get stuck behind an accident…so I turn around and decided to cut through the air force base to take the back roads home (it took 30 minutes to mve 4 …

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Small victories…I have this pair of jeans–my favorite pair–that have been just a wee bit too snug in the waist to be terribly comfortable, so I haven’t worn them in about a year (hell, they were tight in the waist then, too…) On a lark today I decided to try them on–they fit. I can …

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Two weeks down, and 5 pounds gone. Yay. The downside: consuming so much in the way of vegetables, salads, and all the soy that’s in NS food, I am a bit…um…socially unacceptable. I keep hoping that will ease up bit so far I am not someone you want to be trapped in an elevator with. …

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We were out most of the afternoon, so we wound up stopping at Denny’s for an early dinner. I went in thinking What the hell, one meal won’t throw everything out of kilter, but I wound up ordering something actually healthy. Grilled Tilapia with some green beans and just a little bit of rice. Not …

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My other half (hey, I am not saying “better!”> has decided to join me on the Nutrisystem food plan. This should make things esier. Well, for us. Maybe not so much for our son. 🙂 And I did my “official” one week weigh in, and I did lose weight for the week: 2 pounds. Not …

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Just a few days in and I’m down 3.5 pounds. WooHoo! I won’t jump off a cliff if I’m up a pound tomorrow (because of medical stuff, I’m supposed to weigh every day…) but ‘ll take every victory I can get. One of the things I was worried about was that I’d be hungry all …

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