Thirteen Days – So Much to Accomplish!

I can’t believe it’s already been 2 weeks since I told you guys that I wanted to be down to 180 by Christmas! And now I can’t believe there are only 13 days until Christmas! Where has time gone? I haven’t even started shopping! That’s what I’ll be doing this weekend I guess…

I am excited to tell you that I’m halfway to my goal! Today I got on the scale and discovered that I’m down to 184. I haven’t seen that number in so long! This also means that for the first time in a long time I am finally not considered obese! I’m in the “overweight” category again. That’s a weird thing to celebrate, isn’t it? I’ve found a good site to easily calculate my Body Mass Index. How do you do?

I’m really hoping that going Christmas shopping tomorrow and getting out in the crowds will help get me more into the holiday spirit. It’s been really tough this year for some reason. What would really help would be to make my grandfather’s molasses cookies. Ever since he passed it’s been a tradition of mine to make them at the holiday’s. Even though I shouldn’t eat the sugar, it would be a nice treat for me, and I could bring them to work. Maybe I’ll do that this weekend too.

How is shopping going for the rest of you? What are you doing to get into the spirit? Is anyone doing any pageants or parades or anything unique?