I have been spending the last two weeks digging out of a pattern of eating. I didn't say over-eating because I was actually just eating like a normal person and not counting points or thinking about portions. I was not specifically binging or eating bad things. I think that i found myself happy in my smaller body. I got over-confident and slipped. This caused me to gain and drop the same 4 pounds over and over again.

I think a lot of people get to this place and this is when they stop their work. They think, oh well, this doesn't work and just stop. I never once thought this in the past two weeks. I just wondered when I would get back to work. Wondering does you nothing, though. You have to actively get back to the job of weight loss. It is a job with tasks and goals and rewards.

So last night I put up a dry erase board in the kitchen. One of the best weight loss tools is to write down everything you eat (and their points if you are doing weight watchers). So instead of writing this down in a the little book I had been carrying around with me, I am now going to write it down on the big board on the wall. This way, I can always see what I have eaten during the day. And if I don't want to write it on the board, then I don't eat it.

I finally feel back on track. I remember losing the first 70 pounds, this happened about every 15 or so pounds lost. You get comfortable and feel great, so you just eat the popcorn at the movies or the extra rice on your plate. It is part of the learning a new lifestyle process, I think. Learning that you can't lapse. That this isn't a diet. This is a new you.