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I totally skipped last month’s update because I was in Texas and obviously my measurements would be up since everything is bigger in Texas. I didn’t want to skew my highly scientific data and/or I didn’t remember to pack my measuring tape and my friend didn’t have a scale. You know, whichever.

Since I’ve been back from Texas, though, I’ve been slowly working off those extra pounds I gained through…

“Kendra, you should take my friend home,” Merchant Marine tells me after the three of us have been joking and laughing for the last hour. I roll my eyes and continue on our conversation as if it had never been said.

Merchant Marine wandered off and we took very little notice of it, except to charge more drinks to his bill. I had only intended to stay for about an hour when I first arrived. It was Friday night and I was feeling starved for social interaction. When I saw my friend the…

With a little lost and the continuation of the “slow and steady”  I continue on. I’m getting closer to my lowest weight of 218.4 lbs and going from there. I can’t even say how happy I’ll be when I start breaking new ground again.

I mean, I’m not unhappy (now) to be doing some of this work again, especially since last year when I hit the low weight is was mostly from being really sick and/or not eating enough. Even if the number on the scale isn’t new yet, the experience of weight loss…

I really didn’t expect to lose any weight this week. I feel lucky just to have made it through everything in one mentally healthy piece. Everything came tumbling at me at once and I’m so happy that I’ve been able to keep my head afloat with relative ease… and lots of whining… and a bit of tea.

Between being a one- lady-department-of-four at work, my step-father going into the hospital for surgery on his spine, me spending all weekend in the hospital with him and my mom, the usual in…