Starting again ................

It's been ages since I last wrote in this blog and everything I am reading about today speaks of the importance of writing everything down that I eat and the exercise which I do. I will start all that tomorrow. For this blog, I want to talk about how I am going to keep better track of what I am eating. I also want to have to write down what I do for exercise because that part of my healthy plan has been very lacking lately. Between feeling tired and feeling stressed (from teaching full-time again - if only for five weeks), I find myself slacking off the exercising and Mike is okay with not going as well so he doesn't encourage me to get out and get moving. I know that it will make me feel better and so I want to make a pact with myself (and I will talk it over with Mike) to make sure that I do some kind of exercising every day (but Sunday, my lovely day of rest :-) Having to keep track of my eating and my exercising again will be really helpful, especially since we are going back to Canada in a month. I would really like to be down at least three pounds by then (to 185lbs). It's hard to believe that a few years ago, I was down at 152lbs. and I felt and looked great. I know I can do it - I just need to make that commitment again. I find it easier to lose weight when I have a goal like 'I want to look good for this or that' and right now, there isn't anything like that to spur me on. So, I am just going to make a commitment to eat healthy, exercise, and keep track of both.