Day Thirty-three and a half: the day of reckoning

The rooms in my post-divorce house are quite small, but my post-divorce bed is very big (do you see my priorities here?) so it only just fits in my bedroom. It's possible to walk between the end of the bed and the wall quite easily up to one corner where an old chimney breast sticks out a bit and makes the last bit of the gap quite about two-thirds the width of the rest. At the time I bought the bed, I could just about squish through, with a bit of wriggling, as long as I was wearing something reasonably smooth. I avoided doing it if at all possible.

Yesterday morning I slipped through the gap with no problems. I still touch the sides but I think I'd have to be a stick insect not to. I wouldn't have thought of setting that as a goal or way of measuring my progress, but it's unexpected things like this that show me in a very practical way how far I've come.

Despite this, I wasn't very optimistic about weighing myself this weekend. After the unscheduled encounter with the scales two weeks ago I wasn't expecting much. I made an extra effort this week however - no alcohol at all during the week and my Day 33 fast came in at under 200 kCal even though I found myself at home with a sick kid all day.

But, my diary said weigh day today, so I stepped on the scales first thing this morning and was delighted to find another 4 pounds gone! Hurrah for me! So the total now stands at 21 pounds off (= 1 and 1/2 stone or 9.5kg). I'm now under 100kg (99.3) and absolutely delighted. I have another 5 pounds to go to hit my 10% goal that I set at the start of September. My other goal from that time was to get my waist measurement below 31.5 inches which is still a fair way off - here are my current stats:

	2 Aug 13	1 Dec 13
Waist	47	41
Under bust	42	38
Full bust	46	44
Hips	54	50.5
R thigh	30	27.5
R arm	14.5	13

With Christmas coming up I'm not going to worry about achieving much this month. I will carry on as normal and then weigh in three weeks time, before Christmas week itself. I'll be quite content staying where I am, a stone and a half lighter than I was 4 months ago.