achieve and maintain a healthy weight

makes it easier to only eat when I’m hungry (even if I have to keep making Scooterbird wait an hour or two), and even portion control is easier. We go back home this evening, maybe I’ll be able to keep going with it.

Got on an accurate scale yesterday. News is NOT good, but maybe I can use that to get myself moving again (literally).

I’ve been really losing track of it. Time to get it back on the radar.

Holding steady, at best… :(

Just checked for the first time in a month… I’ve lost ground since then, but still doing better than I was before Thanksgiving, so I made progress on this over the holidays! That’s not just a ‘two steps forward one step back’ kind of thing, I think it’s something to be proud of. :)

EDIT: After going over the spreadsheet again, I also see that I transitioned from ‘apple shaped’ to ‘pear shaped’. By that measure, I’m in slightly better shape now than I was during my smallest size over that duration. Double yay!

Trends continue to look good. Maybe I can get through the season without ballooning after all!

but I’ve been stressing a lot lately, which has led to lots of garbage eating. I need to find a better comfort mode, especially as the holidays are coming.

I haven’t invested in a scale yet, but I’ve started taking my measurements (as though for knitting for myself) and the inches seem to be going down with some fluctuation…

I’ve fought with food for too long, letting it take the place of other meaningful activities in my life. And now, I find myself overstuffed with food, but otherwise empty. Time to put food in its rightful place and take away it’s power. Food is for providing fuel and nutrients. Food is not love or therapy or an excuse to not do other things.

This is the main goal I am focusing on now, and I’ve dropped nearly 25 pounds. I have about 25 more to go to reach the top of my “healthy” range, and about 40 more to go to get to where I want to be. Small goals: each day that I keep food in its place (by not over eating or undereating – by eating when hungry, making healthful choices, and stopping when satisfied) is a successful day.

I’ll re-add this goal later, but until I get my health issues (especially the musculo-skeletal ones) sorted, trying to lose weight is setting myself up for failure.