Pink Butterflies and Ten Pounds
I made this for Audrey's birthday, which is coming up next month. Not sophisticated, but it is a child's necklace, after all.
I had this necklace mostly strung last week, but I decided later to add the charm. I did not realize until I started to string the butterfly beads that the hole runs up and down, and not side to side...totally messed up my design! ;) I found the charm, and thought it would add a little more of the horizontal balance I was looking for.
I'm still not perfectly happy with this one either, though definitely much more so than the cheap pony bead nursing necklace! I won't elaborate on what I'm dissatisfied with, though, because I'm not trying to invite comments like "Oh, it's not that bad!" I'm happy enough with it to call it a success.
Onto the poundage...I have been forgetting to weigh myself first thing in the morning at the beginning of each week. I like to weigh myself after I pee and before I eat, so as to be the lightest possible, but I keep forgetting and eating breakfast. A couple of times I weighed myself anyway, and was discouraged to see the needle hovering around 134 or 135 for a couple of weeks in succession, I assumed I was plateauing, and figured my chai and chocolate binge of a couple days ago did not help matters much. Imagine my surprise when I finally remembered to step on the scale before eating this morning, and found I was just barely above 130. Friends, that's 10, count 'em, 10 pounds lost in a couple of months. Not a record pace, but as I think mrtl commented at one point, the slower they come off, the longer they stay off.
I'm hoping to get down to around 115, which, though that might seem too low to some, is still about 15 pounds more than what I weighed in high school, and it is not an inappropriate weight for my 5'2" frame. If I do plateau out at 120, though, I'll be satisfied with that. Ideally, I'd like 115-120 to be the range I can play around with.
I had this necklace mostly strung last week, but I decided later to add the charm. I did not realize until I started to string the butterfly beads that the hole runs up and down, and not side to side...totally messed up my design! ;) I found the charm, and thought it would add a little more of the horizontal balance I was looking for.
I'm still not perfectly happy with this one either, though definitely much more so than the cheap pony bead nursing necklace! I won't elaborate on what I'm dissatisfied with, though, because I'm not trying to invite comments like "Oh, it's not that bad!" I'm happy enough with it to call it a success.
Onto the poundage...I have been forgetting to weigh myself first thing in the morning at the beginning of each week. I like to weigh myself after I pee and before I eat, so as to be the lightest possible, but I keep forgetting and eating breakfast. A couple of times I weighed myself anyway, and was discouraged to see the needle hovering around 134 or 135 for a couple of weeks in succession, I assumed I was plateauing, and figured my chai and chocolate binge of a couple days ago did not help matters much. Imagine my surprise when I finally remembered to step on the scale before eating this morning, and found I was just barely above 130. Friends, that's 10, count 'em, 10 pounds lost in a couple of months. Not a record pace, but as I think mrtl commented at one point, the slower they come off, the longer they stay off.
I'm hoping to get down to around 115, which, though that might seem too low to some, is still about 15 pounds more than what I weighed in high school, and it is not an inappropriate weight for my 5'2" frame. If I do plateau out at 120, though, I'll be satisfied with that. Ideally, I'd like 115-120 to be the range I can play around with.
posted by Andrea | 9:09 PM
5 Comments:
Oh, that one's pretty! You have to wait to give it to Audrey? The anticipation and following picture will about do me in!
Congrats on the weight loss!
Mrsdof, yep, her birthday is not until next month!
Dawn, my weight loss, though it started as a low-carb thing, has evolved to basically an avoiding sugar and junk at home thing. I have tried to watch portion sizes too, but mostly I eat about the same at meals as I did before; the main difference is I snack a little healthier. It hasn't been as hard as I feared...you can do it too, I'm sure!
Kitsune, I'm telling you, chai rocks. If chai suddenly disappeared off the face of the earth, I would go into mourning! It's THAT. GOOD.
Congrats on the 10 lbs! Good job.
That is a beautiful necklace. She is going to love it.
There's more than beauty in a hand made item..there's love and it shines through like diamonds.
Weight loss is good if it makes you happy, but it doesn't seem like you need to lose much weight at this point...
Drink your Chai!
Woohoo to you, for the lovely necklace AND the 10 pounds!
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