Another day.

Since I thought I'd be eating fresh seafood in a Vancouver Island coastal town today, I gave myself a little slack. Not much but a little. It feels good on one level to eat a little something that isn't on the "plan" and then stop with that one little something and know I can do it. Cinnamon bun for breakfast... that was good!

And I'm trusting that I will reach my goal for this week at weigh-in tomorrow morning. Maintenance. That is a goal you know. It's not gaining so in weeks like this, maintenance is good. We're all healthy so far and that is good too.

I did an excellent job in the exerise department yesterday. And I can say that I have the aches to show for it. Not only did I do 30 minutes on the treadmill last night (instead of sitting on the couch watching ER... don't worry I taped it, but wow, was it weird?) I spent most of yesterday unpacking, sorting, lifting, etc all sorts of stuff in the basement trying to get everything in order to actually live in that space. Many bags have gone for reuse by someone else who needs them including three boxes of girl's clothes being posted to friends in the US. The boy clothes, well, I'm waiting to catch my neighbor's daughter to see if she wants them. Otherwise I guess it's to Sal.Army. But I digress... working out is more than scheduled exercise and my body got a work-out yesterday. I'm tired from not sleeping really well but that's a combination of me going to bed too late because I was up talking with Hubby and Bug's nightmares. Maybe tonight sleep is in order.

And one more thing... I have to face this and it's good... I only have 14 more pounds to go to what I hope is my final goal in weight loss. It's a weight that I was able to maintain before, although it's 10 pounds over my lowest weight.

14 pounds.

That's better than 80 pounds.

I can do this and will do it every day from here on out,
sometimes in little bits,
sometimes with gusto...
but always doing it.

Because I have the power to be healthy.

How is that for a little positive self-talk?

It's in my power.