Chiqui,

I hope you are doing good. How is everything?

I have news:

After months and months of barely losing a pound or half pound a week--I am in shock.

I weighed in this morning for the first time since I came to mexco, and it turns out that I have dropped 10 whole pounds in the last 4-6 weeks! I keep doing the math, converting kilos into pounds (they use kilos here). I keep thinking that I have miscalculated.

I also thought that maybe something is wrong with the scales, but I used 3 different scales and they all agree. I just can't believe it still. I keep thinking that at any moment I will find out it's just a dream. But when I review my life for the last 4 weeks, I realize that it is entirely plausible. I exercise a lot here. There is a lot of climbing and walking. I´m also taking salsa dance classes and my legs ache from the exercise. I leave the studio drenched in sweat. And I decided 6 weeks ago to drink only water (and a cup of coffee in the mornings).

I'm so thrilled and thankful. I spent many many frustrating weeks in which the scale did not move at all, and sometimes it even went up. So now, I'm down to 169. That´s 31 pounds gone! and about that much to go (although I´d like to lose more than that I'll be so, so happy to get into the 130´s--could you imagine? I haven´t weighed that for 5 years).

I'm going to try to not weigh in again for a long time and just keep doing what I'm doing.

I just had to share my news!