Thursday, November 6, 2008

Finally! A New Leader!

Yes, the long awaited results are in and I am proud and happy to say that finally we have a clear winner in the summer weight loss competition. I know that many of you have been anxiously awaiting the results. Well they are finally in and I won by a landslide. Yoohoo. I lost 10.76% of my body weight. Not bad. I saw Clyde the other day and he was a a gracious loser. As I hope all of us are. I also hope we all continue to be big losers.

I have decided to try to lose ten more pounds. Why? Because clearly I cannot be trusted to try to maintain my weight at this time. I thought that if I tried to lose during the winter I would at least maintain. To see why this make logical sense I have to relate a story. On Saturday we had the Fall festival (which I really should blog about) and my dear, dear friend "Nana" (if I may be so bold to use Sarina's endearment for her) made the most awesome brownies. So I hid four away to be consumed privately by ME. Well the other day I went to check on them and lo and behold two of them were missing. I had a sneaking suspicion that someone was not honoring my long held policy that ALL brownies are MINE. So in a desperate attempt at self defense I ate one of the brownies. Now, mind you I had no craving for the brownie. I merely felt that my territory was being stepped on and that if I didn't act then there would be no brownies left for me. Ok, that is the depth of my illogical approach to food. I ate a brownie as a show of force. Clearly I cannot be trusted with food. And btw, thank God terrorists have not attacked our brownie supply in this country because I might have gone nuclear on them. So I am working out at the gym again and trying to keep all brownies out of the house.

4 comments:

Kath' Aama said...

Yay! You go girl! Great work, and I'm glad you didn't have to go "nucular" over the brownies. One tiny quibble about your math: surely you didn't weigh 450 lbs? Because for me to lose 10% would be (gulp) 19 lbs... My eventual goal is to lose about 25% of my current weight or 50 lbs, whichever comes first. .6 down, 49.4 to go!...er... waah.... ;(

Daughter #4 said...

We have met the enemy, and it is.....brownies????

At least you have a normal enemy! My enemy is hard salami and ring bologna!!

BTW, congrats. I was secretly rooting for Clyde, but, hey....I can be gracious if he can. :P

Serenity now! said...

Actually not all my weight loss was counted in the contest. It started later and ended in September.

Anonymous said...

SHAPE MAG

Beet Walnut Brownies
1/2 Cup unsweetened Dutch cocoa powder
1/3 plus 1/4 Cup sugar
8 large egg whites
1 Cup canned sliced beets drained and sliced
3/4 Cup chopped walnuts
Oven 325
8" Sq pan w/ cooking spray
sift cocoa and 1/3 cup sugar
Large bowl mix on highest speed egg whites until peaks form
Beat in 1/4 Cup sugar
Gently fold in Cocoa mixture
then beets and nuts
bake 40-45 minutes until top is cracked and toothe pick comes out clean
Cool on wire rack 5 minutes them flip and continue to cool
21/2X21/2 SQ 151 calories