Halfway there - YAY!!

As hard as it is it believe, as of this morning, I am HALFWAY to my weight-loss goal on this FRP (food reduction plan), as Mom likes to call it! I have officially lost 27lbs - that's exactly half of my 54lb goal. YAY!!! I'm very, very excited about it all!

Halfway... I'm only 7lbs off my Christmas wish goal of 200lbs, which I'm obviously NOT going to make, given that Christmas is only 9 days away - although we are having a seriously reduced Christmas on the goodies front this year... No East End bars, no banana bread, no date bar.... BOO!! Even so, to have come this far in the last 4 months is shocking: who'd have thunk that simply changing your diet and watching your portions would affect your weight so very, very much??!! I know I would never have done so! More to the point, I don't even really crave the foods I used to eat so much any more either - I do occasionally still want french fries & burgers, and when I do want them, I generally go ahead & eat them, but I don't feel like I could eat them every day, the way I used to feel. And point in hand: on Sunday, I had fried chicken fingers & french fries for lunch, then just could not face the french fries that came with my turkey sandwich for dinner that evening (yes, I ate out twice in one day... it was a hectic day, believe me!).... And - perhaps most shocking of all to anyone & everyone who has known me for more than a New York minute - I actually MISS salads when I don't have one for a couple of days! I'm craving healthier food instead of candy, sugar & lots & lots of salt...

So now we'll have to see how challenging losing the remaining 27lbs is going to be. I haven't been under 200lbs in longer than I can remember, so even just getting that far would be an incredible result! Watch this space for more updates!!