Free Shoes & Fat Loss

Today is starting out as a good one! I stepped on the scale today after 2 weeks of disappointment and irregularity to find that the number has dropped. Finally! In addition to the weight loss I've been waiting on, I remembered this morning that I still had 2 credits on JustFab from earlier this year. That translates into $88 worth of shoes for $20, shipping included. It's a good thing we're planning on a shoe rack for the closet renovation next month...

I may have a problem.

Tonight, we're heading out to a customer appreciation party for my friend's realty company (even though we're not customers), and since KJ has the car I can't get to the gym so I will have to get creative with the exercise. I could walk outdoors, but it's back to being ass-chillingly cold again these past 2 days. I hate going for walks when it's cold outside. Yesterday, it was windy as hell and snowing off and on all day!

On the diet front, I have been doing pretty great. It's interesting what you can learn when you actually read the labels on food and do a little research. For instance, the bagged sweet kale salad from Costco is surprisingly high in calories and sugar. The bag says a single serving is 1 cup, which (for a salad made of broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbages and kale) is really not much. So why in the hell is it 140 calories per serving? Turns out it's the frigging dried cranberries. I assumed that dried cranberries were just cranberries, but no sir. They're dried, sweetened cranberries. I was eating this salad several times a week, and it was packed with sugar. Not anymore! I've been picking out the majority of the cranberries, leaving only 8-10 pieces per 2 cups of salad.

I'm also exercising epic will power... the following treats have been laying around my house for weeks now, and are still unopened. Anyone interested? Free for the taking.

You can't get me!

Happy Friday, folks. Hopefully yours is as good as mine!

• Starting weight: 255.6 lbs
• Today's weight: 242.8 lbs
• = 12.7 lbs lost