One of my Favorite Blogs

I read a great deal of blogs each day regarding nutrition, health, food, etc. but one of my favorites is the Refuse to Gain blog: http://refusetoregain.com/my_weblog/ - I look forward to the day that I can work on maintenance along with Trina and almost Andria!

NEATO!! Weightview.com

Just read about this web site: http://www.weightview.com/new/ where you can upload a photo of yourself, tell the system how much weight you'd like to lose, and you get a photo back of what you might look like at that weight. How cool is that!? I've sent 2 more in - but here is the results of the first one.

Results for -30, which is 5 lbs beyond my goal weight:

Changing Things Up a Bit

Right after we returned from back to back vacations - I got extremely focused. I was up a couple of pounds in January and had been at a similar weight for a couple of months before that so I cut out 'sample bites' while cooking and trimmed down my points/calories each day. In about 4 weeks, I dropped 8 or so pounds and was thrilled. Then came a wave of 'woo-hoo - I'm down another pants size' followed by complacency. It's not as though I don't want to lose the last 25lbs or anything like that - but after losing a few pounds I feel like I needed a mental break - needed to reassure myself that I wasn't doing anything crazy and that this was sustainable. That being said, I've been at a similar weight again for the last 3 weeks due to a variety of events where I chose to indulge more than I had been for the previous few weeks. With all of this in mind, I decided I needed to jot down these thoughts and come up with a plan of attack going into the final 2+ weeks before our spring vacation and beyond. So here we go:

1. Remember fondly the last couple of weeks where I chose to indulge to show myself that living life *this way* is completely doable, but agree to move beyond those times and cut back on the not-quite-as-wise choices
2. Stay within my daily points range *no matter what*
3. Get to the gym 3 days a week minimum and give it my all
4. Change up my menu enough that I am excited for my meals and satisfied when I am finished
5. Remind myself continually that small stones move mountains
6. Also remind myself that to get real results I actually have to sacrifice something - even something as small as forgoing a tasting of chips or almonds when I pack my lunch in the evenings
7. Find activities I really enjoy doing in the evening so that food is not my only friend

I'll be checking in exactly a week from today!