The First three Weeks of January . . ..

January started of with exercising weekends at Ballys, and when time allowed after work, maybe 20 to 30 minutes on the "reclining bike".

Purchased a new scale, and one of the hardest things for me was to promise myself that I would only weigh once a week. Something that my husband was very insistant on, or he would not let the scale in the house.

Seems that when I'm dieting, the scale rules my emotions. If it shows that I gained I was not in the best of moods. Not giving any thought that everyone goes up and down on a daily basis. But I had to give thought to the best day for me to choose to weigh.

First I knew that I had a lot of meetings on Thursday evengings with dinner out, so Friday AM was out. Monday AM was out, as I new that we eat out both Saturday and Sunday . . . so no Monday . . weighing would not be a good way to start the work week out. So I settled on Thursdays.

Changing eating habits was something that I was trying to do, had cut back on snacking, but not much else. I had really wanted to take off some weight, as my Annual Top Ten Trip was coming up and I was still upset about that picture and the weight gain that had snuck up on me.

Worse yet I had only lost 3 pounds with almost 4 weeks of exercising and cutting back on my snacking.

Weight on Thursday Jan 22 . . . . 285