Day 30 - Begin Again

I spent the last two weeks sick and taking antibiotics and codeine cough syrup (wonder how many points in a swig of that?) and other various drugs. I have been coughing constantly, and not sleeping and pretty much eating anything I felt like eating that didn't make me cough of feel icky. Lots of cans of soup. Today is the last of the drugs and I am back on program. I got on the scale and amazingly enough didn't lose or gain a pound, I stayed as I was before I got sick. Today for breakfast I ate a piece of last night's leftover quiche, eggs, skim milk, non fat cheese (mostly) turkey bacon, broccoli, but the pie crust and little bit of regular cheddar I tossed in weren't Core, so I just went ahead and counted the whole 8 points for a slice of quiche. I told you before I suck at math and trying to divide out the Core ingredients from the things I had to count was just too taxing on my drug laden brain, so I figured it better to just take the hit for a whole 8 points. Also had an orange which was California juicy and delicious. Today is President's Day and it turns out I have the day off and didn't even know it. Life is good.

Day 22 - Sick

The good news is, I got my 5 pound bookmark and all the ladies cheered. In fact, I have lost a grand total of 6.6 pounds in 3 weeks. The bad news is I just came from the doctor and am sick and got 3 different prescription drugs and am going to pop them and go to bed for a few days. More after I recover.

Day 20- Phlegm

I have a cold. I have been coughing all week. I think I may have lost a pound just in coughing up gunk out of my chest. I know that is disgusting. I took Nyquil last night and then worried about how many points it had. Tomorrow I get weighed and am hoping to get my 5 pound bookmark. Not really like I need a bookmark, I just want the other fat chicks to clap for me and say "Way to go, Tammy!" It's all about the attention. I mean it's bad enough eating toast without butter, but it would be worse if no one noticed. I have been using the diet margarine as it has less points, but it never melts and that bugs me, so I may cough up the 3 points needed to have a TBL of real butter. I hope at the banquet feast in heaven butter has no calories. I saw that the Japanese have invented a butter stick, like a glue stick that you dial up and then just rub a little on your toast. Makes me want to move to Japan except I don't speak Japanese and the thought of raw fish and seaweed makes me want to vomit. But I do commend them for "Butter Stick" technology.

Day 19 - Wednesday Night Veronica Club

Every Wednesday night, I go to choir practice and then my friends come over for a double whammy night of TV, Veronica Mars and American Idol, or Veronica and Lost, or Veronica and Invasion. Note how Veronica is always in the equation - this is the real reason for our get togethers as our Music Pastor's son Ryan is on Veronica Mars and it's always fun to watch someone you know on TV, not to mention we have all gotten hooked (just like Stephen King) on this great teenage girl detective show.

Why did this make my vanishing fat blog? Because our Wednesday night parties always have centered on food, and what we were going to eat and who was brining what and did we have desert and who wanted what flavor of soda and well, you get the picture. Last night, my friend Jill put in a request for lasagna and so I bought a lasagna and garlic bread and bags of salad. Mind you, if I were to have eaten this meal, I would have used up this week's points and next weeks, too.

Instead, I ate whole wheat spaghetti with red peppers and tomato chunks and fat free cottage cheese and pretended it was lasagna. It was hard as my friends were moaning the deeply satisfied moan only a cheesy lasagna can produce.

I wanted some SO bad. I held tough. I woke up this morning and weighed myself and had lost another 2 pounds since last weigh in. The wheat spaghetti did it's job. Hooray for me and my burgeoning self control.