Here’s the update on the dieting efforts . . .

I’ve added one pound to the loss column making the total loss now 17 pounds. This is not nearly as good as what I was hoping for, but it is a move in the right direction, so I’ll take it.

I have exercised 4 times in the past week, and I’ll likely get in one more time before I go to sleep tonight. Hopefully, this will increase my losses so my next report is better.

I bought two new (from a thrift shop) pairs of jeans at the end of the school year. One pair was snug, but wearable. The other pair was only wearable using the old lay-on-the-bed-to-zip them trick. I’ve been able to zip them without that trick for about a month, but yesterday when I put them on, they were noticeably looser. This is a good thing. I am hoping that by sometime in September they will be too big to wear.