Trials of a Long Haired Girl

I will again apologize for not checking in last week. When I went to weigh in, I was down a pound making me 196.  My eating was not 100% this week, I was in the negative on my Weeklies and hadn't walked as much as I normally do.  I decided not to go to weigh in last night as I wasn't feeling well.  To make sure that I didn't go too far astray or blindly not make changes because I didn't go to my official weigh in, I stepped on my scale last night.  My scale said I was up a little over 2 pounds.  I figured I'd be up, so it was not unexpected. I have been visiting the chiropractor recently so I'm hoping that I will be back up to 10,000 steps a day soon.  I generally only really focus on hitting that goal during the weekdays.  I hope to get to the gym/Rec Center soon, and perhaps even as early as this weekend.     I will see how I feel after all of the things we have going on.  I have Monday off so I'm hoping to get a few things done....

As I stated yesterday, I am really trying to set small goals for myself to enable me to hit my goal.  I am proud that while I haven't hit the rec center to work out, I've been hitting my step goals each weekday and sometimes exceed.  I have been tracking what I eat, even if it isn't always the lowest in SmartPoints and that's big for me.  In the past, I have thought that if I didn't track it, it would be like I didn't eat it.  I know that the only person that I hurt by doing that was myself.  I have cheated myself out of being healthier because I was lying to myself.   In January, I lost a total of 4.0 pounds.  That's about a pound a week on average.  Could I have done better?  Possibly, but this time I want this to stick.  If that means that I'm going slower, then so be it.  Tonight I weighed in at 197.  That means I have gained 0.8 pounds this week and have lost 3.2 so far this year.  I could focus on the scale ...