Days #12 - 17 - Where Did the Time Go?

Guess I haven't been too good about posting this last week. And yes, I have an excuse. (Don't I always?) I've been trying to pull together info for my business taxes and help my son do his FAFSA and scholarship applications for college. All on top of the regular workload. The last thing I want to do is to sit at my computer any additional time to post to a blog--and so I haven't. If only this work counted as "exercise", I'd be super thin and healthy right now. But alas, it doesn't.

I've pretty much been keeping to my diet, under 1200 calories per day (I'm actually hanging in there around 900 calories) and minimal sugar, though I did allow myself a couple glasses of wine, cheese & crackers, and some poppers on SuperBowl Sunday. Hey, we all need a holiday sometime. My exercise, however, has been very sporadic. I had to take my new pedometer back because it wasn't keeping score...I first discovered this when a nearly 2-hour trip to Costco registered only 16 additional steps on my pedometer. It then dropped to 400 steps a few hours later, when I had been over 2000 steps the last time I had looked. Go figure. Got a replacement now...I just need to break it out and use it.

Monday was my second weigh-in. Two weeks into the diet and I have:

• Lost 5.5 pounds
• Lost .5 inches from my waist
• Lost .5 inches from my hips
• Lost .25 inches from my thighs
• Lost 2 full inches from my bust (there is no justice!)

Not great stats, but I have to tell myself this was the day after letting everything go for the SuperBowl.

I'd much prefer to see the inches drop from my waist than the numbers fall on the pounds, but so far that's not happening. The first week I mysteriously gained a quarter inch around my middle, so I should at least be happy that the numbers are moving south now...but I still don't think it's fair that the bust is the first to go.