I admit I feel just a little bit better than I did, yesterday.  Water weight isn’t helping my mood at all, since it makes my joints hurt (especially my knees) and the weather’s been bad on top of it.  Still, it was no reason to give up working toward the goal.

Let me tell you — when I put on my jeans that had been loose a week or so ago, this morning, and realized that they weren’t fitting nearly as loosely, I realized that I must be carrying quite a bit of water weight.  It’s not unusual for me to carry up to 15 pounds or so, and it’s been much more extreme than that on occasion.  So maybe — just maybe — what I’ve been feeling the last couple days has everything to do with getting that water out of my system.  I’m ready to flush it out, and that’s literally what it’ll require!

Since I wrote quite a bit yesterday, there’s really no point in repeating it, except to say that this marks 7 weeks, and I’m hanging in there.  Right now, the Mississippi and I have too much in common (too much water!).  I’m sure, in a few days, I’ll feel a lot better.