1. It's really hard.
2. I love food. Not just any food, really good, well-made food. If I'm going to indulge it has to be the best.
3. Fitness Bootcamp is kicking my butt. Seriously.
4. I don't crave what I thought I would. No chocolate (:oogle: gasp how is that possible??). I want popcorn (the really good movie theatre kind). If I do have chocolate it can't be just any chocolate bar. I want Purdy's (a Canadian chocolate company that rocks) English Toffee.
5. I'm following this program that has this special fibre (I'm in a study to see its effects on weight loss, diabetes, cholesterol,etc.) and it has 20 times the amount of fibre of metamucil. Think about that for a while!
6. So far I've lost about 16 pounds in 6 months. That's not a huge amount of weight in that time but I am still nursing a baby so I'm told it's good. I had planned on losing more like 30. It's rather depressing, really, but at least it's giong the right way.
7. I have also lost 3 inches on my waist and 3.5 inches on my hips. That makes me very happy.
8. #7 translated into a two pant-size drop for me and I was thrilled.
9. I've plateau'd (that word doesn't look right like that. Have to look up plateau as in past tense...sorry, sidetracked) and that sucks. I lost most of the weight in the first 4 months and now am only inching down.
10. #9 is why I joined a fitness bootcamp last week.
11. Did I mention that bootcamp is kicking my ass? Yeah, I hurt in places I didn't know I had.
12. I've decided that more than losing weight, I really just want to be fit and have energy to play with my kids (no, seriously, I mean it).
13. Losing weight is hard. Being healthy is also hard but I'm (mostly) doing it. Do I indulge every now and then? Yes, but if you don't then you just resent everything else and then go nutso and binge. I haven't binged in a very long time. Now I'm going to have a cup of and go drink my fibre!

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