Yup. Got a new bath scale yesterday and it confirmed I'm down to 145.2 lbs. Yeehaw! I'd gotten up to about 168 or so and started on a pretty slow and steady diet over a year ago. I knew I wasn't willing to eat anything but what I like to eat so I decided my only option was just to eat a lot less of whatever that was. Mostly it's bean tostadas, sprinkled with jalapenos of course. Not those huge $8-12 size but the $3-5 size that fit on a small plate and have lettuce and cheese on top. I usually eat all the chips and salsa they serve and decline refills. And I've almost eliminated all alcholol, except for an occasional rum and diet coke or glass of Moscato.

Thanks to my bestest friend, Bridget, I've been walking regularly and I think that has been an important factor as well. In fact today we walked and talked together on our cell phones while she was in San Diego and I'm in Camp Verde, AZ.

I pulled all the large and x-large size clothes out of my closet before I left San Diego and passed most of them on to the Salvation Army. Just to eliminate that option, or at least make it hurt more.

What's really cool is I feel completely enrolled in eating this way for the rest of my life. I still get to eat out a lot. I still get to eat my fav mexican food. I even have a hot fudge sundae (with peppermint ice cream of course) now and then. And because I eat such a small amount I usually take home half to eat later on.

So happy I finally figured out something that would work in this area. And I like the way my back side looks again.