Little By Little

Well, I just spent a half hour typing this post out, and then Blogger ate it. Ugh! I hate it when that happens. But, as it turns out, that post may have been even worse than this one will be, so we will consider it a mercy killing and move on.

All I wanted to tell you was that a few days ago (before the church insult) I heard this interesting thing. It was from a model, who says that each day she weighs herself, and if she sees that she is a pound over her goal weight, she immediately eats a little less and exercises a little more. This way she never gains weight or has to do a huge amount of work to get back in shape.

I really liked that tip, and the idea of just looking at one pound. I usually look at my weight loss needs as the whole 15 pounds that I currently want to lose. I am thinking now of trying to just focus on one pound at a time a see how it goes.

I don't own a scale, as I have always found them to be demeaning. I am 6 feet tall and curvy. The numbers that most people see are not the kind of numbers I will ever see this side of terminal illness. Even though I know intellectually that I should weigh more than people 6 inches shorter than me, those numbers seem awfully big. I have decided to try to weigh myself once a week at the home I go to for small group instead.

One my my 2005 resolutions was to lose 25 lbs. this year. I have 15 left to go, and not quite that many weeks left, with the two fattiest holidays thrown in there. Think I can do this? I am going to give it a try. It would be really nice to start 2006 already have reached that goal.