I think that I'm at that "line drawn in the sand" place now.

Let me put it this way - I'm not trying for anorexia. And I am eating
and appear to have sufficient energy for my activities. I restocked
the dates and mango at Costco along with picking up a fruit cake (too
bad they can't go more natural on their baked offerings) And while
there is still a ripple around the middle, at my age it may be skin.

I know my secretary (who is a WW leader) is very big on people getting
to their goal weight and really trying to MAINTAIN. And I would think
that my floating up a bit and down a bit is there.

And I believe with your attitude, you will reach goal and Lifetime.

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:50:58 -0600, Prairie Roots
wrote:

W O W !!!!

Since I still can't imagine actually reaching goal, I'm even less able
to imagine your quandary about whether you hava a sufficient cushion.
I think I like Lesanne's idea though (elsewhere in this thread) about
picking a weight equivalent to a line drawn in the sand.

Prairie Roots

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:12:05 -0800, Fred
wrote:

Okay here we go:

I am down since last week: 1.8 pounds

(that is using my base clothing measurements which means removing 1.6
pounds from the current wardrobe) But I'm down in any event 0.2
pounds even with the heavier clothing. So I guess the chocolate cake
on Sat night was not deadly - YES!

Current weight: 156.6 (heavier clothing 158.2)

But I will mention my sister's take on this minimum weight issue (she,
by the way has never had a weight problem other than being UNDER most
of her life!!!). I mentioned getting to 155 to have a sufficient
clothing cushion. She suggested as some of us have discussed then you
will not want to move much from there and will try being just a bit
lower to keep 155 and so on and so forth and ...... Which is what
I've been thinking. So what does it mean. I have no idea (g)

(aside: don't eat your heart out Lesanne, you cannot afford the points
(gd&r)


Fred
219.2/156.6/164.0 (Lifetime)
Started WW: Oct 29, 2002