Mid-Range Goal Met! WITH PIC!

Fabulous! What have you been doing? You look marvelous darling!

Hee, thank you! I've been doing two things:

1) Watching how much I eat and WHAT I eat. I log EVERYTHING. And I'm not hard on myself if I have a day where I go over my calories, because I know that's likely to put me in a binge. I also don't have any "forbidden" foods. If I want a brownie, I have one. But I log it. The only things I try to stay away from are things that upset my reflux and/or my IBS.

2) Exercise. I was sedentary my whole life until I started with a walk around the block in March. Since then, I've joined a gym, trained for and run a 5k, and I'm doing Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred right now (2 days left of Level 3!). There are days I can't do much because of physical limitations due to my MS and fibro, but I try to get at least 10 minutes of cardio in every day. I usually push for 45.

It really is a matter of eating less and moving more. But it's not easy by any means. That's where my community of friends/family and others on the journey comes in. I couldn't do it without the support of my friends and family, and the folks here!

Again, thank you everyone. The kind words are nice, especially considering this week's weigh-in wasn't where I wanted it to be. SCALE QUIT GOING THE WRONG WAY! I think I might start doing a monthly weigh-in instead of weekly. Trying to keep focused on how far I've come, not one week being silly.