Eff being a girl! Especially a girl who is going to Florida tomorrow. Yeah, SUCK!

I don't really know what to say...losing 1 pound is far better than gaining 1.5 pounds, but it's nothing compared to the 3 pounds per week that I was losing in June. It almost makes me miss the days of physics when I barely had time to eat, let alone go on vacation and entertain company. Luckily I was able to eschew weight gain in Galveston, but who knows what's going to happen in Florida...

In other diet-related news - on the way home from Galveston yesterday, my evil, ho bag, elephantine cousin accused me of being anorexic when I ate a veggie sandwich at Subway. Then she said, "You got the sandwich instead of the salad? That bread is more points. Tisk tisk!" OMG, Fatso! You're so right! What was I thinking getting the 4 point sandwich!? I should get Weight Watcher tips from you more often! Maybe then I could eat a cheeseburger and fries, pork rinds, and chocolate doughnuts and weigh 200 pounds! P.S. This is the same cousin who, at the beginning of my nannying job, told me I was fat like her. I guess she can't call me fat anymore so she's changed the insult to anorexic. Somehow, that just doesn't have the same bite.

A couple of tips from Weight Watchers:
- Find pictures of yourself from when you started your diet and post them on the fridge or the pantry to encourage you to keep going.
I found the most hideous picture ever taken of myself (Easter 2006) and I have a very strong desire to carry it everywhere because 1*9lbs may seem like a lot but it's nothing compared to 1*8. Go me, go!

- Reward yourself for reaching your goals.
Now, I'm not supposed to reward myself with food, however, I very much doubt that Weight Watchers would object to me buying some of their 1 point smoothies and 1 point candies. Besides, I'm going to spend my own hard-earned money on it and that's a huge deal for a miser like me. I've got to four more pounds to go before it's bye bye $35 in nanny money.

Some other thoughts:
I only have to nanny for 4 more weeks (including this one), I'm going back to school in 5 weeks, and I'm wearing Scot's shirt that he accidentally left at my house. Nice!

Yeah, I cheated this weekend. A lot. Now I have four and a half weeks to lose 11lbs...I hope I can do it...

And that's why we take the hard classes at a junior college. Ridiculous? You bet.

Ahem - AHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I'll be honest, when summer started, I didn't think that there was any way I'd be able to lose 40lbs. EVER. So I'm absolute ecstatic that I've reached the half-way mark after only 8 weeks. And I'll just come out and say that they have been the tastiest 8 weeks of my entire life. Seriously, I eat better on Weight Watchers than I ever did before because we used to be all carb-conscious and mess and who really wants to eat a hamburger patty with a side of pork chops and an omlete chaser when they could be having peanut butter sandwiches, popcorn, ice cream, hot dogs, spring rolls, and fruit? I'll take the latter, thanks. I jokingly offered my dad a bite of my ice cream sandwich the other night and in return, he tried to tempt me with one of his pork rinds. Luckily I had the will-power to turn it down...mhm. Anyway, hopefully (read: surely) I'll be able to lose 10 more pounds in the five weeks before I go back to school (on a side note: where in the world did summer go? I don't really care, I'm just glad it is gone and hope the rest of it goes there faster). That way, I'll only have 10 more pounds to lose in College Station, and with a supportive boyfriend, a busy schedule, and a kitchen in my corner, I should be extraordinarily successful.

PS: Weight Watcher is so proud of me that they've taken two of my points away! In laymen's terms, it means that when I weighed 1*8 pounds, I needed eat the caloric equivalent of 22 points per day to lose weight safely. Now that I weigh 1*7 pounds, I need to eat fewer calories per day because if I ate any more than my 20 points I'd either maintain the weight of 1*7 or gain more (shudder). Thanks for looking out for me, Weight Watchers!

From today through June 13th I will be earning $50 a day house-sitting and taking care of 3 high maintainence Pomeranians and one very attention starved cat. And I don't even like dogs. Sweet!

Weight Watchers gave me a star today! I'm 2.4bs away from the half-way mark! I'm thisclose to getting another star for reaching another Weight Watchers goal! In 4 days I will be able to work out as often as I want! Yesss!

Where would we be without Houston? Without Houston, there would be no me, no Scot, no Ridin', and no Blue October. God bless Houston, Texas!

Also, these prove that the diet food industry has come a long way from sawdust cookies. Seriously, that is best novelty ice cream product that I've ever had and I'd probably eat them even if I wasn't trying to lose weight. I guess we can thank the obesity epidemic for them and, once again, we can thank Houston for its contribution!