...of eating salads, veggies, and bland chicken with rice and not seeing the scale budge, I give up for a while. Not give up on reaching my goal weight, but I realize that it’s like that old saying, a watched pot never boils. Weighing myself every day is not getting me anywhere. I don’t know how to be any better than I’ve been, and I haven’t lost even a tenth of a pound. So I’m going to try just eating healthy and exercising and not thinking about it too much. I’ve been on enough diets to know what “healthy” means, so I feel comfortable with that. I’ll weigh myself once a week, or less maybe, and just go by how my clothes feel for a while. My goal is still 110, because I feel like that would be a good weight for me, but that’s too far away at the moment to get bogged down with that number.

Before I got married, I was so crazy with buying a new house and moving and planning the wedding that I couldn’t diet or exercise even. A few weeks before the wedding I was so bummed and angry with myself that I hadn’t put more effort into losing weight. Then I happened to put on this pair of jeans that was usually tight, and they were hanging off me. I just said, “Whoa…when did this happen?” So this is my theory for how to best lose weight – stop being obsessed over it.

So let’s see if I can resist the temptation of the scale for now.