My morning weigh-in finally landed in the 150.1 to 150.9 range - I am there! No quibbling about tenths of a pound. I am now officially in the maintenance side of things - 1200 calories a day and occasional alternate day fasting for general health purposes. I'm thinking one day a week to start with and see if that's enough. As I recall from before, my ideal weight was about 148, so if I end up there it will happen very gradually. No more steady alternate fasting. This represents about six months of work. I will continue to go to the gym and do exercises (Essentrics and Hinge Health) at home. Essentrics in particular is helpful - I used to feel like I had a stiff neck when I was driving and looked over my right shoulder for any maneuvers and wondered if I was looking far enough. It's not uncomfortable any more. And balance improves with those exercises.

I mentioned before the old swim suit that is the right size but still a little snug on the shoulders. I'm thinking maybe someone's observation about the elastic is correct and it just isn't as stretchy as before. The other suit I have (that still has tags) is too big, so I will be replacing the size 12 with a new size 12.

I moved the sewing cabinet into the sun room, next stop outside into the SUV. That will go as a donation, I'm not trying to sell something so big and heavy. I've worked on new eBay listings for smaller electronic items here at the house and will spend the next month in a no-spend way so that if something sells on eBay I have wiggle room and that can go toward new purchases (I have a couple of fabric pieces I would like and the grill castors mentioned earlier), but try to otherwise restrain spending to essentials like food and gas. Oct. 15 - Nov. 15 target period.

I do miss the weather in the Northwest - getting out the flannel shirts already, lightweight jackets. We're still in t-shirt weather here except for the earliest pre-dawn period when it's a little nippy.