Seven pounds

Is what I've lost in the last day or so. That is what food poisoning, or the 24 hour stomach flu or whatever it was, will do to you. I am back at work today and feeling much better, but still weak from not eating or having vomited up what I consumed in the last two days.

So just to recap the last week, I've been treated for a UTI, gotten AF, and whatever that thing was that struck on Monday afternoon. Good times... The only silver lining is the weight loss, while likely mostly water and digestive weight, is a helpful quickstart to my long overdue plan to get down to "normal" weight for me. I'm 5'11", so even weighing 150 pounds is "normal", and this is only the second time in my life (first/last was 1st yr. in college when I was rowing crew) that I've weighed >150 lbs. I have a small frame and have always been naturally thin so I don't particularly like looking like I have three chins.

At my thinnest, when I got mono during the hellish summer before my sr. yr. in college, I was at 125 (a size 2), which is decidedly not healthy. I spent most of my adult life at about 140 (size 6), which is probably where I should be. The suburbs do make you fat though. I never had a problem with weight when I lived/worked in the city or was single. I didn't have a car, I walked. I also went to this amazing gym. I also didn't eat like I do now w/S. IF certainly doesn't help. The depression, the synthetic hormones... So hopefully the good that will come out of this is that I will be able to stay at and maybe continue to move to a lower, healthier weight.