Moderation

Sometimes for me being moderate when I have a goal is extremely difficult. Its either all or nothing. I'm learning this round of weight loss, that moderation is a key to me. I have to be willing to give myself a day off when I need it, or a week off when I'm sick, and not beat myself up over it. If I constantly beat myself up, then I get discouraged and quit, or I what happened last time, I got to my goal then went completely off the exercise regimine and eventually gained all the weight back. So I'm striving to learn moderation. Its a difficult thing for me. But this morning, although I feel guilty now, I woke up and just couldn't work out. So I didn't. I knew, even though I had two weeks off recently from the morning workouts, I just needed this morning off. So I took it. Now I feel guilty, but I'm trying hard not to.

I'm also being more moderate in my eating habits, I allow myself foods I really like, like an occassional hamburger, I even had a huge piece of Cherry pie at my mother-in-laws. I'm hoping that by finding the key to moderation will be the key to permanent weight loss.

I promised pictures. So here I was back in late May (the pink shirt). I think this was around Memorial Day weekend. It was about 8 pounds into my weight loss (I think). This is the most recent picture I have. This was approximately August 15th. So its a month old. I've lost about 5 or 6 pounds since then. With our trip and other factors we haven't taken any posed weight loss pictures sine then, but this weekend we should on our bike ride tomorrow.

Tomorrow the goal is over 45 miles. We'll see if we accomplish it, the weather is supposed to be nice though, high of only 75. And considering I'm now under 200 (barely but I'm there), it should be doable.