Unfortunately, as most often happens when folks quit smoking, I wanted to eat everything in sight.  I honestly don’t feel as if it was physical; more of a mental thing.  I needed to replace that hand to mouth motion.  Then again, isn’t that what we do when we eat? At any rate, my intentions were to wait the proverbial “21-days-to-make-or-break-a-habit” period before I once again resumed my weight-loss journey.  But, I think that the cravings have subsided somewhat, so I’ve decided that right now is as good a time as any to get back on track.

Stepped on the scale this morning.  I expect to gain a bit of weight, and a bit I did.  I’m at 250 even this morning.  Still down 25 pounds total since I started back in March.  The goal is to lose 25 pounds (10%) by the end of the year.  I basically need to start over and focus on everything.  I’ve not done any form of exercise (other that house work) in weeks.  I have to work on water intake as well.  Never much of a soda drinker, I’ve found that I’ve been craving it lately … and giving into those cravings.

Not.  Good.

I really want to get into this blogging to lose weight “thing.” Figure since I paid for a domain and all, I’d better get to blogging and get some mileage out of this thing.  I’m not promising anything, but I am going to really try to jot something down on here every day, even if it’s only a sentence. Even if it’s nothing more than just a few words, at least it will help me get into the habit of keeping myself accountable. Hopefully, eventually, I’ll even improve on my postings and content and get some more followers.  By the way, thank you to the couple of you folks that actually do follow me now. Speaking of followers, if there is anybody that is reading this that I don’t know about, please leave me a comment and let me know you’ve been here. If you’re not the public type, that’s okay. You can always shoot me off an email.

I love feedback.

I’ve actually been doing a lot of thinking lately, and I’ve come to realize that no matter how much I talked about it before, I am still looking at this whole thing as a means to an end, not as a lifestyle change.  I’m thinking that could be my problem.  I’ve never been good at being consistent — except at being inconsistent.  In fact, you could say I’m consistently inconsistent.  I’m also terrible at follow-through.  That applies to more than just my many weight-loss endeavors.  That pretty much describes Liz in a nutshell.

I’m not sure why I decided to spill all this here.  Well wait, that’s actually what this blog is for, isn’t it?  I did say it was for documenting, “the good, the bad and the ugly,” didn’t I?  Chalk one up for the ugly, or maybe the bad?  Dunno.

Okay, I’m over myself.

As for my plans for this week of occupational freedom?  I actually took off specifically to take my 85-year-old mother to the hospital for knee surgery tomorrow.  My mom gets around fine as far as driving, etc.  She’s a tough old bird (heh), but dad doesn’t do so well and will need some help.  Since he can’t drive, I will be taking mom to and from the hospital and running whatever errands they need while she’s temporarily incapacitated. She goes in tomorrow and is hoping to be out by Friday.

If you haven’t already noticed from the weigh-in chart I posted on my sidebar, Wednesday is the day.  I figure I’ve tried making Mondays my start date several times, but that doesn’t seem to work anymore.  So, maybe a change is in order.  Let’s see if Wednesday will do the trick.  I know that sounds asinine, but I actually started on a Wednesday when I dropped 70 pounds back in 2006.  Maybe it will be my lucky charm this time around, too.  Hey, whatever works, right?

*waves*

I have some more tweaking to do as far as theme and cosmetics go but, like its owner, my blog will be a work-in-progress for a while. Therefore, comments and suggestions are welcome and encouraged.

Interested in starting your own self-hosted weight loss blog? Be sure to check out Mary’s post. As you can see, it was a definite inspiration for me.