Starting over again

For what feels like the millionth time since the birth of my wonderful son, I am restarting my weight-loss journey.

I attended a Weight Watchers meeting today at lunch and battled the scale one more time. I must admit, I was not at all surprised with the results on the scale. In the past month, I have eaten everything and anything I chose to with no resolve. If I wanted Dairy Queen, I went to Dairy Queen; craved chips, and chips I had; wanted a chocolate bar; and I darned well DESERVED a chocolate bar! So, when she scale crept up past 195 lbs, I wasn't overly surprised.

But the stark realisation is that right now, I weigh just as much as I did when I was almost 42 weeks pregnant with a 9.1 lbs child. Scary thought, isn't it?

Well, I am hoping that with the help of this blog, I will find the strength to shed the excess weight and stay on plan. With me writing a blog entry each day in addition to journaling in my tracker, my hope is that it will give me that little extra boost I seem to need to keep at this for more than 2 week stints. Accountability will be the all important key to my success. And having to type what sort of day I have had, both food wise and emotionally, will be helpful in me staying motivated and to "just say no" to that succulent dipped cone I so crave.

The first time I joined WW and successfully lost 63.2 lbs - this time, the number will be half that amount...

I am going to tell some people about this blog, but because of the personal entries and the sensitive topic, I would please ask those who read it to not necesarily share with others without asking me first.

Until tomorrow,

J