Things are moving right along on the challenge express. That's corny, I'm sorry. Thanks for the shoe compliments! They arrived yesterday and instead of being Beige, which is what  I ordered they were black and grey. Cute, but probably wouldn't go with my dress. Luckily, they were two big and would have returned them anyway.

I can't believe the wedding is in three weeks and so many people have RSVP'd! A lot of people we haven't seen in years or even met at all. One of them to my (happy) surprise is from a lady who I had my first internship with the summer after my freshman year of college. She is a self-employed graphic designer who lives a very interesting life. She hired me without any experience and gave me a lot of room to learn which I will always be grateful for. I'll never forget when she told me "I can't pay you much, just $7 an hour" and I almost fell off my chair. For me, at the time, that was big money. I sent her a resume when she wasn't hiring and she hired someone without experience, that doesn't happen often in this world. After that summer I knew I wanted to be self-employed and have been working towards that goal ever since. So, yes I'm excited to see her!

In other unrelated to weight loss news, I've been getting a lot of really weird emails. Weirder than usual, I should say. Asking if I'm a real person. I am aware that the internet world is becoming privy to the money making abilities of a weight loss blog and a lot of these weight loss bloggers are fictional. And a lot of those blogs tend to plug in pictures of people pretending to be real. I don't know if it is the graphics, the ads or both, but I am real. At least I hope I am, otherwise that could be scary. Yes, I am really a fat person blogging and have been for two years.

I also don't approve comments from anyone who links to a promotional website or  "fake" blog. I can spot one pretty quickly, but I get emails from folks saying "I left a comment linking to my website that links back to you, why did you delete it?" because you aren't a blogger. I get about 10 spam comments an entry. Sometimes a few get through, but otherwise I delete them. Not that I'm against making money online (am not, at all, and would like to make some myself) I just don't let other people make money off of links from my blog.

And now onto weight loss. My eating has been back on track this week and have been recording everything I eat and emailing it to one of my good friends who is also trying to lose weight. I've been monitoring my calories and staying below 1,500 a day. Wednesday morning I did tae bo boot camp level 2 and yesterday I didn't do much but mope around about our missing cat, who we found 24 hours later in the garage across the yard. He was cut on the face and shaken up, but so glad to be home. My sister lost her cat this week to a stomach tumor and she has been heartbroken about it. I kept thinking I would never see Simon again and knew how she must feel having her cat gone.

I have weigh-in this weekend! Which I'm hoping will be a good one and continuing to stay on track to get there. I had a pretty funny moment yesterday while feeling sorry for myself. I really wanted to make something sweet and even wrote down a recipe on a note card of something small to make. I flipped over the note card and there was a picture of myself in a pretend wedding dress, a thinner version that I made in photoshop as a visual reminder of where I want to be. I laughed out loud at the situation and ate an apple. Sometimes all we need is a reminder of our goals and where we want to be to get us back on track.