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I probably should have counted this as a Non-Scale Victory for February, but I was so intent on beating myself up over my weight gain that I didn’t think about it.

At the last Weight Watchers At Work meeting of February, I was talking to a couple of members before the meeting started, saying that I’d only gained 0.2 pounds that week, and that I considered that pretty much staying the same, since that really just amounts to a good BM. Everyone got a good chuckle out of that.

One member, Barb, asked me, “So, are you on Maintenance, then…?”

I kind of smirked and said, “Pfft, no. I still have about fifteen to go.”

Jane, sitting next to her, looked at me and her eyes got big. She looked me up and down pointedly. I could read the unspoken really? on her face.

Barb turned to Jane. “That’s what everyone says about you, too! You don’t look like YOU need to lose any more.”

Which was absolutely true. Jane didn’t look the least bit unhealthy to any of us, but she would often reference the rolls around her middle (and her undying love for cookies).

Anyway, after that, we had a brief discussion about what’s under our clothes, the rolls and jiggly bits that no one else can see.

So, what I got out of that is that even Weight Watchers members think I look “normal” now, even though I’m still a little more jiggly and puffy than I’d like.

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