And am I ever ready for a cheater day.  Tomorrow.  I can hold out until tomorrow.  We’ve been invited to share a hotpot dinner with some student friends, and I can almost taste a Starbucks latte.

In the meantime, here are the results of our Friday weigh in:

Ruth:  67.9 kg. = 149.63 lbs.  Ruth says it’s been a long time since she was under 150 lbs.

Zale:  100.9 kg. = 222.44 lbs

My starting weight was 109.6 so I have lost 8.7 kg. = 19.2 lbs.

Ruth’s starting weight was 73.9 so she has lost 6 kg. = 13.2 lbs.

We’re just slightly over half way to eleven weeks.  If I keep losing weight at this healthy rate, I’ll be very close to two hundred pounds by the end of the eleven weeks.  Close to two hundred may not be good enough for me.  I may keep going until I get my six pack.    And then try to maintain at that rate.

This morning I noticed that I can feel my stomach muscle cuts through my flab.  I can’t see the cuts yet, but I know they are there.

Okay, enough motivational contemplation.  Time to hit the elliptical.

Okay.  592 calories in 31 minutes.  We watched the start of a documentary on the Chinese revolution, and that made the time fly. Very interesting show.

I didn’t have breakfast until noon today – the usual brown rice, chicken breast, and Chinese greens.  Then we took the dog to the pagoda on the island and practiced music for a while – fiddle, guitar, banjo.  That was a great break.

Ruth cooked up a nice mixture of garlic shoots, mushrooms, zucchini, and a bit of lean pork for flavoring.  Since we hadn’t made any rice, and were out of potatoes, we got our carbs from the whole wheat French bread, but with no butter.

After dinner we went to a student performance in the auditorium – the usual, songs and dance and a bit of amateur music.  Good energy though.

Snack this evening, the last of the bread with cottage cheese and tomato slices.  Delicious.  Time to shut down for the night.