As for today's Topic... Hmm...
Well, the most weight I've lost has been 16 pounds in 11 days. And that was just last year. When I had the dual - and dueling - bacterial infections in my throat and sinuses. Alas, those 16 pounds were truly "sick pounds", and they came back on as I was regaining my health and getting back to normal.
As for the most weight I've gained... Well... I still remember watching the numbers on the scale creep up all through high school. Each year, we would all be called into the school gym where they would take our height, weight and do that color-blindness test (the ones with the numbers made out of different colored dots). Of course, they would sort of yell out the numbers for the height and weight - one person would measure, and then the other person would write down the numbers. Depending upon who was around you in line, it was only a slightly uncomfortable ordeal or it was a very uncomfortable deal. By my junior year, however, they stopped "yelling" the numbers out loud - at least for the girls.
In any case, I crossed the 200 mark sometime in my junior and senior year of high school.
Then throughout college, I eventually creeped up to 210... 220... 230... And I topped out at around 235. -But I carried my weight well, as they say.
A couple of years ago, I finally got sick of looking for pants in waist sizes that I didn't like to look for. So, I started being a bit more active, and a bit more conscious of my diet. It was a very gradual weight loss over the years - with various diet and workout regime attempts thrown into the mix.
Right now, I tend to hover around the 205-210 range. The weight numbers I've come to accept. It's the waist numbers that still bug me. However, I've actually maintained my current waist size even though there have been times when I was "lighter" and my waist was actually "larger". I think it's just been a matter of me getting older and my body just settling down as it were.
*I did put on about a 5-7 pounds during the past couple of weeks in DC. I just had way too much free time to be lazy since I ended up "walking" for the last half of the run of
Mamma Mia!. But I can already tell that my body is getting back into shape/back to normal after just this past week in NYC. And that's due to all the walking, and the fact that with the schedule I've been on, I've been eating regularly and at normal hours.
Hmm... I think I need a Fat Witch brownie today.
*But I'll walk all the way from the Chelsea Market at 14th and 9th, up to Columbus Circle at 59th... At least!
