Remember that honeymoon period where whatever program you are doing worked great and you were losing weight and everything was terrific. I wish I could find that again.

 The first week I signed up, I lost. I have since gained. Last week was 6#’s. Part of it was water retention, I am sure.

 I feel lack of motivation in everything. At least I have been bringing my own lunch from home. I am sure that is a two thirds less than the calories I would be eating if I bought stuff.

 So, what do you do to motivate yourself?

It’s a darned good thing that birthdays come but once a year! Yes, you really can have your cake and eat it too! And I did. :p

However, I must have done something right for the rest of the preceding week because I was still down 1/2 pound for my weekly weigh-in this morning. I’ll take it!

It’s been a stressful couple of weeks in our household and I’ve been really slack about journaling, exercising, etc., but I’m working on it! I can honestly say this much: by this time, any other time, I’d have probably thrown the towel in by now and said to heck with it. It is only by coming here and reading about your successes, and slips as well, that has kept my determination intact. And I thank you all for that!

P2G: 54 [-14]

Has it actually been an entire week since I’ve posted???  Wow.  Time sure flies.  This has been a strange week – weird work hours, lots of evenings spent with the VIM, a camping/hiking trip this weekend, and then on Sunday afternoon – a time when I COULD have actually taken a nap or at least spent some quality “me” time – I got a bug up my butt and HAD to move the computer, which started a snowball of moving ALL furniture in the living room and dining room, which then started a spring cleaning snowball, which STILL hasn’t stopped rolling.

Anyhow – WW weigh in was last night.  Down 2 more pounds.

10 lbs total through three weeks, 30 lbs to go.

Even better than the pounds lost, I can fit into yet ANOTHER pair of jeans that had been too tight, and I am now very close to the weight I maintained for several years before gaining throughout 2005.  All weightloss from here on out will be new territory for me – a weight and body shape I haven’t seen since high school.  Heck, not even high school.  That’s one of the things that really keeps me going – I feel like an explorer or a curious scientist…what will I look like?  what will I feel like?  my face has changed already…will it continue to change?  do I really have giant childbearing hips, or is it really just lots of fat?

These are the things I need to know, and the only way to get the answers are to keep on going.

Hope you ladies are having a great week!