Starting Over?

I've ignored this blog for a loooonnnnngggg time. I guess I stopped about the time I was buying my new home. I didn't start ignoring the diet until later in 2004. And the past two months I've really jumped back up the scale.

So today (March 14th) is my 33rd birthday. It has also been about a year since I started recording my weight and since I started going to Jenny Craig. A whole year -- but now I have less than ten pounds to show for it. My jump the past few weeks has really erased much of the progress I made. If you scan below, you'll see that I once was at 20+ pounds weight loss. Ugh.

I've still been going to Jenny Craig -- I just haven't been following the plan. For the past few weeks I've gone in saying that I need to recommit myself to the plan, but I haven't done it. Tonight, I got a new counselor -- my old one has left to move on to another career. My new counselor had some good advice with my gain this week: get over it. It's done. Now move on.

So let's see if I can move on. I'm not off to the best start. For the past few days I've craved a birthday cookie -- you know, the large pan cookie with decorative icing. Tonight I bought myself one at Kroger. It didn't say Happy Birthday -- it was decorated for a Kentucky basketball game ("Cats #1" in blue & white icing) . I'm a big UK fan, so I decided that was good enough for the birthday. (smile) I also went nuts and bought two pints of Ben & Jerry's (2 for $5), but I have not eaten them -- yet. I've eaten a good chunk, but less than half, of the cookie. It tasted better than I expected it to taste given that it'd been sitting at Kroger for a day or more. I know this sounds riduculous but I'm kind of proud of myself for not eating the whole thing in one night -- some days I probably could have done that, even though it would certainly make me sick.

OK, so my goals this week are to journal what I eat. I haven't decided whether to do it all here or on my own private list. We'll see. I'm also going to drink lots of water and exercise 4 days this week for at least thirty minutes a day.

Here are numbers:
Bathroom Scale: -11.2 pounds since 3/8/2004 (OK, so I guess it's still more than 10 pounds -- the blog has justified its existence.)
JC Scale: -7 pounds since 3/ 22/2004 (ugh -- as I said, this includes a lot of "gainback" weight)