TARGET: 128
POUNDS TO GOAL: 7
I've neglected this blog for very good reasons.
I've had nothing much to say about my weight management strategies.
In fact, I've been pretty much ignoring the fact that I need to restrict my intake of calories if I don't want to shoot back up to 184 pounds.
I desperately don't want to be fat again.
But I don't want to work at it.
Last week, my weight shot back up to 137 pounds - which means my weight gain since graduating from the Lindora Weight Loss Clinic was dangerously high. I'm still wearing size 2 jeans - but they've gotten tight. And I can see the weight gain in my hips and thighs.
That was not enough to put me back on the straight and narrow (no pun intended).
But this was.
We're going to visit my in-laws in Britain. I haven't seen my brother-in-law and sister-in-law since before my weight loss, so even if I went now, they would see a huge improvement.
But I had the big idea of sending them my People magazine article, with a photo taken on a day when I was actually BELOW my official low of 128 pounds.
I can't let my in-laws see me like this when they've already seen a photo of me like that.
So this weekend, I signed up for LiveStrong's MyPlate diet and fitness tool. Yes, it's another online food and exercise journal... but unlike some of the others I've seen, it's very well organized - and the free version appears to offer everything I need right now. There's even a Blackberry app I can use when I'm on the go. (Yes, there's one for the iPhone, too - but that goes without saying.)
And yesterday - for the first time in about a year - I went to the gym and put in half an hour on my old friend, the elliptical trainer. And you know what? It wasn't that bad.
It even kind of felt good.
So today - I'm going back.
