Back and Forth...

I didn't really lose any weight in February.  I did, however, get on the scale yesterday (or was it the day before?) to see 212.  I was hoping to be below 210 by the end of the month.  However, I am able to fit into a size 18 pair of pants again, and that's got to count for something.

As much as I would love to be at or around 170 by the end of June, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to be there.  But I feel that I have mastered the first step of the weightloss journey: accept who and how you are today.  You can't lose any weight at all if you keep thinking of yourself as a thin person -- why would I need to lose anything if I'm already thin?  This is buying the clothes that fit you because you've stopped thinking in terms of "when I lose this weight" and just accepting that this is how you are and these are the things you need TODAY -- and when we finally need those smaller things because we HAVE lost the weight, dealing with that then.

I feel like I'm rambling... 

So, anyhow, 212.  Down from 227, that's still a pretty big thing.

Gluten-free is getting easier.  My daughter wanted to go to Olive Garden last night for Ravioli, so I got to try their gluten-free pasta.  It wasn't horrible, but it wasn't the same as their regular pasta.  (Next time, I'll just get a bowl of never-ending Zuppa Toscana...yummmm!)  Of course, here I tell them I'm on a gluten-free diet, and they bring the breadsticks.  Uh, no?  (Yes, I did have the personal strength to tell them not to leave them at the table.) 

I found some Xanthan Gum at Publix -- almost $15 for a small bag!  It had better last forever, or make a decent pound cake!  (That's what I'll be trying this weekend, possibly today.)

I should say that I've had a couple of times that I've had gluten.  Last Tuesday was the Kiwanis pancake supper.  We always go to that.  My stomach hurt the next day, but I can't say if it was that, or if it was psychocomatic.  I also had a teeny-tiny cookie night before last (and those awful meatballs probably had some sort of bad filler in them.)  So, I haven't been perfect, but I've been a lot better than I could have been.

Now, I think I've got to take little K to the doctor.  Everything in her neck looks swollen, and she feels pretty awful.  I hope the weather is more or less over.