Excuses

The struggle continues. Life has gotten in the way, but that is an excuse. I let life cause me to stress eat and break the good habits I spent over a year developing. Fortunately, not all my good habits are out the window and not every day do I go "off the rails" so I have managed to keep the weight gain to a minimum--too much over goal, but still lower than I was this time last year. That means I have kept the majority of my weight loss off for a year now. That is a success for me! I deserve to be proud and celebrate ME! Past weight loss would have been back by now. This time is different. AND I have the ability to get this gain back off and keep it off. I still do miss the online WW community and the challenges. That kept me going back online everyday, if nothing more to be aware of what I was doing everyday and being accountable. I'm a closet eater, so being accountable to just myself is not enough. I'll lie to myself over and over again. But others make me accountable and more honest with what I'm doing. I did this for me and I need to keep reminding myself that this is for me.

 Taking Mom on a European cruise 10/23 so I have three weeks to lose this extra weight before we go and eat in Italy and France mmmmm. I want to be able to do that guilt free, but that means putting in the work now. I can do this. 19 days till sailing. Day 2 of SFT. Walked 3 miles last night.