Two great things in one day

So two great things happened today.

One when I was putting on my belt this morning, I was able to go to the next hole without any trouble or tightness at all :) That means I'm getting thinner.

Second, I was in this training and had a snack to which the girl next to me said how can you eat that. I was like what? She replied that if she ate it she would be fat, but I could eat it and was so skinny. She's totally my new best friend.

Should I be concerned?

So in a weird thing that has developed with my health is that I seem to have taken up sleep eating. Essentially I eat while I am asleep. The stories are usually that people gorge on candy bars and junk food while in bed and don't remember it the next morning. Mine seems to be a little different.... I measure myself a cup of cereal and eat it in the middle of the night. The next morning I realize this is what I did when I see a dirty measuring cup and dirty bowl with milk in the bottom of both. I did some research on it and they say that stress can cause this to occur temporarily and I'm assuming thats what it is. However, I am not entirely sure this is it, or that I'm not really getting enough calories in a day. I should probably start calorie counting again to double check that. But I am none too happy about this.

the lexicon of weight loss

About a month ago, when I got back from San Francisco, I tweaked my diet to see if I could get the scale moving again. Essentially, I cut back on drinking from 7 days a week to 2 days a week. It seems to have been the ticket. Since the beginning of September through today, I have lost 8 pounds. In fact, this week, I may very well break below 200 (since I weighed 200 exactly last Thursday). Although, I sometimes feel that its just the scale not working. But hopefully it has (crossed fingers).

But I was out and about the other day and got a compliment about my weight loss and I started thinking about it. Inevitably, every compliment about weight loss is a backhanded compliment about how less fabulous you looked before. Not that I don't want to get all the great compliments as I lose the weight, but still... Why does all of our encouragement to the formerly big-boned have to be, you used to look horrible. For instance, you look great means before you didn't.

One of my friends told me to my face, knowing I could appreciate how this comes across. And he's right about it, but it made me think about how we compliment people. J1 and J2 were walking to the bar that I was outside of on Friday night.

J1: Is that Scott?

J2: No, I think that guys too skinny to be Scott.

J1 and J2 (as they get closer): It is Scott!...

I appreciate that that means I'm skinnier than I used to be and skinnier than people think I am, but all losing weight comments are like that. oh well.