January/February weight management challenge

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146.4

Goaaaalllll !!!

I finally reached my Weight Watchers goal, which amounted to a loss of 10% of my weight from when I started in mid-September.

It sure took me long enough, I averaged just under a pound lost per week, but what the heck.

Now I have to maintain my goal weight of 148 (+/- 2 lbs) for the next 6 weeks so I can make Lifetime. Yikes! That could be more of a challenge than losing the weight in the first place ...

I mentioned last week I was going to try to find a lighter pair of pants (or pajamas ) for my weigh-in this week, instead of the jeans I've normally been wearing to WI. Digging around the back of my closet I found a very lightweight pair of pants I got back when Lee & I were bike touring (when I realized that lugging a couple of pairs of Levis in my panniers was a dumb thing to do). I haven't been able to wear these pants for years, but joy of joys they fit me now! And they're about a pound lighter than the jeans I had been wearing to WI. But I was under goal by more than the difference in the weight of the pants, so I wasn't cheating ... much

To celebrate, Lee & I went out for dinner at the Lobster Shack, where I had a Lobster Roll ("Naked" - basically just lots of lobster (yum) in a bun, no mayo (not a fan of mayo), tho I did use some of the clarified butter), coleslaw, some of the fries, a few spoonfuls of Lee's clam chowder, and, of course, a beer (Shipyard IPA, yum). That sure put a healthy dent in my weekly points allowance, even with my upped daily amount on account of being on Maintenance now. But boy was it worth it.