I can decide before I get out of bed that today will be a good day! Choose your attitude and change your life! What will you choose?

Life's too short to miss out on all those cute clothes! There's no more time to waste, so just do it! Aging doesn't have to make you old and frumpy! Fight it all the way, and Never EVER give up!

I have a good attitude about food and want to enjoy it, so I eat at the top of my calorie range, so that combined with my commitment to ...

I can decide before I get out of bed that today will be a good day! Choose your attitude and change your life! What will you choose?

Life's too short to miss out on all those cute clothes! There's no more time to waste, so just do it! Aging doesn't have to make you old and frumpy! Fight it all the way, and Never EVER give up!

I have a good attitude about food and want to enjoy it, so I eat at the top of my calorie range, so that combined with my commitment to exercise & strength training is the reason I'm a slow loser. I also don't believe in a low carb diet. I don't eat much bread, but I refuse to give it up. I get enough grains and produce to fill my carb goals. Your brain needs carbs to function, so I make sure I do my best to follow the Sparkpeople guidelines as closely as possible, which includes about 50% of healthy carbs from whole grains, fruits and vegetables, 30% fat, and 20% protein. Often, my protein is closer to 30%, which is still fine as long as my carbs are at 40% or higher.

I have also noticed that my weight loss is much more effective when I make sure to have 3 servings of fat each day. One serving can include 1/4 avocado, 1 teaspoon olive oil, peanut butter, nuts, etc. I eat a little more fat at lunch, because I often put those yummy things on my salad.

For me, what seems to be working best is to make reasonable goals for weight loss, but to put exercise goals high on the list! Without exercise, your weight loss will always be a struggle.

Do you find that you dread exercise? It might be because you don't exercise!

I promise you that if you just start by walking around the block once a day, you will feel better and your mind will be clearer. Soon, you will want to add a few minutes each day until one day, you realize that you can do it more quickly, or even run it! Take some soup cans and do 10 minute sparkpeople videos in front of the tv, just do something.

As we age, we become weaker in the core, tummy and lower back, especially. It happens gradually, so you don't really notice that you are getting weaker, losing muscle mass and also bone mass! Coach Nicole's 10 minute strength training videos are wonderful, and they get easier as you get stronger. I have found that the more I dread a video, the more I probably need it, because it's hard and I need to get strong.

I need to get strong so I can live a long life, prevent the osteoporosis that runs in my family and prevent other diseases too while I'm at it!

Goal:
135 by New Year's Eve, 2012!
2012 - 27 week average, 2/3 lb per week.

Sept 30
Sept 23
Sept 16
Sept 9
Sept 2
August 23 147.2 Free again!!
August 16 149.6
August 9 148.8 woot woot!
July 26 151.6 ug.. 150s..will the nightmare plateau end?
July 5 149.4 Yay, I'm in the 140s again! woot woot!
June 29 150.2
June 7 151 Yay! 5 lbs from goal! (body is still fluctuating)
May 31 157.4 (obviously something weird is going on) Hungry.
May 24 - no weigh in, up again. Hungry.
May 17 - 151.8 (-3.6)
May 10 - 155.4 ..finally going down again! yay!
May 3 - 157 (+3) faced the music, same 3 lbs as last week!
Apr 26 - 157 skipped weigh in onna counta I was bummed!
Apr 19 - 154.2 (-3.2)
Apr. 13 - 157.4 (-1)
Apr. 6 - 158.4 (-.2)
Mar. 29 - 158.6 (-1.6)
Mar. 23 - 160.2 (-1.6)
Mar. 16 - 161.8 (-1.4)
Mar. 9 - 163.2 (-.4)
Mar. 2 - 163.6 (-.6)
Feb. 24 - 164.2 (0)
Feb. 17 - 164.2 (-.6)
Feb 10 - 164.8 (-2.2)
Feb. 3 - 167

Not too shabby!

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