10% on February 10th

Today I reached a milestone. I am now 10% LESS than I was when I started out my weight loss journey on September 2nd! I am so happy about this!! I'm so totally OVER the whining about not losing weight as fast as other people do. They can lose at their pace, I'll lose at mine. I'm not upset anymore--I've learned that patience is the key for MY loss! I'm the snail...you have your tortoises, your hares and your snails. I'm the snail and I'm a happy snail!
Granted, strep ain't the way to lose weight (I'm still not eating "normally") but it was a great boost to me. Nothing like a rebound off your plateau! LOL!
So, now I get to get back into counting points. I haven't counted points for well over a week. I had started last week, but by the end of the week, when I was feeling so blah, I just didn't do any of it.
One of the ladies in my meeting is very supportive--she told me to take my card back and have them hold it for a celebration, so I took it to Bernice. I love Bernice. She's a hoot! She's an assistant leader and has a wonderful sense of humor. Anyway, she told me I did good on my loss, which I take cheerfully. Like I said, I like her.
Lori told me to go back and give my card back--it was good that I did because there were two of us celebrating our 10%. I didn't get with the leader to plan my goal weight but I've already set it. I'm setting my goal to be 136. I'm now 81 pounds away from my goal. I am so happy about that! The "100 pounds over goal" isn't there in my vocabulary anymore!! I'm happy! Can you see me doing the happy dance???

Getting sick is for the birds!!

I have had strep for the past several days. I went to work on February 2nd and was looking forward to going to weigh in on Saturday. Well, by the time I left work on Friday, I was miserable. I'd gone in feeling like I had a golf ball or something in my throat. That didn't get any better as the day went. I also was running a fever. Yippee. When I went home from work, I took a bath, then got into bed and stayed there for the next three days. I was up a little to see the family, but for the most part, I stayed in bed, under the covers.
I had an appointment on Monday to see my doctor. We had to get my son a quick appointment at the same time because he suddenly spiked a huge fever (103.4!) at school and I had to go pick him up. I was tested for the flu (negative) and then he decided to test me for strep. Guess what? Yeppers! I have strep. I've got antibiotics and was probably good to go back to work yesterday, but the little boy wasn't ready to go to school until today. He's been running a low-grade fever. It's broken now and he'll be going to school tomorrow. It's a bit weird having him home for two and a half days and sending him back for two, but...he needs his education.
There is a bright side to this. I haven't been able to swallow so I haven't really been eating. I lost 6 pounds in the course of the weekend. I hope it stays this way because I'd really, really like to see that lower number in the meeting on Saturday. It'll definitely be a celebration!! I want to hit my 10% and IF my scales are accurate right now, I will be at 20 pounds lost (over, actually!) and 10%. That's been the hard thing but I'm pretty sure it'll be close. I know that I just need to either get sick like this more often (not an option because I hate being sick!!) or I need to be uber careful about what I'm eating and how I'm eating. I've still got a good 15.5 points left for today. I haven't even decided what to do for dinner yet. Must be something good and healthy. Maybe I'll make some sort of chili for the family. They're getting used to me giving them high protein foods like beans so...I may have to work on that idea.