Hi, people. I just wanted to touch base, even though I didn't post a
regular "weigh-in" report on Friday.

My family were VERY surprised when I showed up here in Boston! And
thanks to the person in the donut shop I-don't-know-where who led a
very lost person around the maze of Boston after I got so confused by
the roads you can't imagine. :)

My sister didn't have a scale, so I bought her the same one I got for
myself in St. Louis. It seems to be different by about 1 lb from the
one there, but I'm not sure. I probably will never know.

It seemed for the first few days here I was gaining weight! I am not
sure why. I definitely was sticking to within my calorie limits. But I
was eating lots of "fake sweet" things my sister likes keeping in the
house, like artificially sweetened fudgesicles (80 calories each). The
scale was showing me gaining about 2 lb in a few days (!) so all I did
was stop eating those and my weight dropped right down again.

Are the calories on those artificially sweetened ice creams accurate?

Anyway, my diet is going well. For Thanksgiving I got a pre-packed box
of Tyson Turkey slices in gravy (380 calories for the box) and heated
it in the microwave. I was perfectly happy, and had a very low calorie
Thanksgiving.

I went to get some new shirts and I am definitely well within the L
range now. The saleslady eyeballed me and said "medium or L size".
Anyway, an ordinary L sized shirt I got yesterday seems to be just fine
on me - reasonably loose and comfortable, without being too large. 16
neck / 32-33. I never used to pay any attention at all to shirt size
details like that - basically whatever tent would drape me was fine.
That was because measuring my neck was ridiculous - it was my torso and
stomach that would not fit in! :) But now the standard measurements
seem to work, so great! I might even be a medium at some point...

Waist size seems to be 36" now for a comfortable pants fit. I think I
was like 52" when I started!

More later...

doug