Day 43 Weigh In #6

The scale didn't smile at me this week, but it didn't exactly smirk, either. My Job moment. I stared at the measly .4 pound loss, not even 2 sticks of butter. Honestly, I was ever-so-hoping to shed over 8 sticks of butter this Weigh In. After all, I had religiously hiked up the hills each day and counted every calorie I had put in my mouth. I even had to tighten my bra straps this week

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote, "Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

I'm confident that "the place and time" , (the scale in 7 days from now) will prove her words true. I'm mentally picturing that naked blob hunched over in the doctor's examining room. SHE would give up. SHE would become discouraged. SHE would stick her head inside the kids' pillow cases full of left over Halloween candy and gobble up all the stale Almond Joys, not coming up for air until the last peanut M&M was gone. I am not her, anymore. I'm the girl with the new hair cut, new lipstick and arched eyebrows.

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." *

I am not quitting.

Breakfast: Coffee (80), 1 bite of Jimmy Dean link sausage (60), 1 1/4 cup Lucky Charms (140), 1/2 cup skim milk (40)

Snack: Panera Muffie (1/2), (155)

Lunch: 2 slices veggie pizza (390), Diet Coke

Dinner: Green salad w/ 3 T. Paul Newman's Balsamic Vinaigrette (135), 3 ounces chicken, roasted (140), 1/2 buttermilk biscuit (50), 1/2 cup corn w/1 t. margarine (135)

Later: 94% Fat Free Kettle Popcorn (100), 1/2 glass Pepsi (80)

Day 43 Calorie Count: 1505, close to 52 minutes walking

*Napoleon Hill