Lucky number seven.

Okay, so it's working guys.

I started on 3/2.  Four days later, I've lost 7 lbs.

Seven. Pounds. 

Do you know what weighs 7 lbs?

A small bowling ball. 

A baby shark.

My niece Lydia, when she was first born.

Lydia cannot believe her eyes in this picture.  There's a whole her less of me!

That's right.  In four days Nutrisystem has eradicated three months of weight gain.  I am only nine pounds away from six months of weight gain gone, forever.  And eleven pounds away from 365, which was my starting weight on my fitness pal in 2011.  For three years I've been circling this drain, and I am thrilled to consider the possibility of hope.

I don't say that with such errant phrasing to wax poetic.  I mean it.  I hope you might be able to understand how hopeless a feeling it is to be closer to 400lbs than 350.  To call 350 a milestone target.  It's like celebrating amputation at the knee instead of the hip.  Hope is just that far away when it comes to gauging progress. 

To consider that hope may be possible: that is a miracle. 

I intended to give candid reviews on food quality and hunger this first week but I'll save that for a day more mundane than this.  

Tonight, we celebrate our pirate leg possibilities!!!