Hey! Checking in with you all. I don’t have the time to check in here every night like I want to, but I will keep coming here at least once a week.

I am still on my detox diet and have lost three or four more pounds since i started it a week and a half ago. (Now about six pounds in all and that includes a ton more muscle from yoga so I’m happy with that loss.) I feel lighter because of it. Add yoga to it all and I’m feeling great.

I’ve been thinking about our mental struggles with weight loss. So many here are complaining that the weight isn’t coming off fast enough. We’re older now. Our body wants to hang on to this extra weight for some strange reason. I’ve been imagining the process like a game of tug of war. We can eat well and not lose the weight, but it doesn’t mean it’s not having an effect. You just have to keep pulling at the rope, and suddenly your body will decide to let go and you’ll have a good loss for a while. And then your body decides it wants to hold on again. So you don’t give up but keep pulling the rope tighter, waiting, until your body is ready to let go.

Does that imagery help? It’s been helping me a lot.

By the way, for those who asked, my detox diet includes fruit, veggies, rice, rice milk, beans, most nuts (not peanuts), sea salt, vinegar, soy sauce, green tea…..

I don’t go hungry. I just wish I had a Sushi Chef living with me. I’d be set.