That title is sort of misleading.

Today, I weighed in... and this is what I saw:


It couldn't have made me happier.  Knowing that I have been eating so healthy, I was expecting to continuously drop more weight but I had (previously) stalled.  Now I am showing signs of progress again.   Thank goodness.

How encouraging.

To my joy and surprise, I was down a pound this morning (167.5) when I weighed in.  I wrote last week about how I had plateaued... and it looks like there was some good news in store!

I am continuing my dieting and portion control, and because of my schedule in recent weeks, alcohol has been all but cut out of my diet.

Also, I've sort-of picked up a little bit of the Atkins Diet.  I (by choice) will not give up carbs completely, but I have limited the amount I take in.  It might make me a bad Italian, but I don't even have pasta once a week! (Don't tell Grandpa!)

I hope to see more progress by implementing just a little of Atkins and sticking with my health portion control.  Here's to more loss on the way!

Wow.  That was fast.

It's been a month since my last post.  I told myself I wouldn't constantly be posting... mostly because so much of this journey is about me reestablishing health habits and forming better routines, so many of the posts were going to look the same.

Lucky for me, I've been doing the same thing for about a month now.  Fruits and a small breakfast in the morning (the occasional egg, ham and cheese wrap as a brunch) and a health lunch wrap.  Not too much of any one thing.  Portion control.  I feel better, and way less groggy or slow.  Last week at football I actually ran around, playing offense and defense.  It felt good.

The catch is, I haven't lost anymore weight.  I am right at 168.5 pounds.  The good news is that I've been able to maintain this lower weight.  Now I have to take the next step and do more to lose more pounds.  The working out has to happen more frequently now, and it has to be a mix of cardio and lifting.

The biggest thing for me and figuring all of this out was to really figure out what I can and can't do.  If I was going to try to change my eating habits and my exercise habits all at once... I was going to fail. It would have been too much of a change for me to buy into regardless of how much I want this.  Instead I'm am comfortable with my food choice, from buy the groceries to food preparation.  I've changed my entire "culture of thinking" and now it's time to move on...

...to the the next step.