Whew! I just entered my foods to complete yesterday and catch me up through breakfast today. For one dish, I had to enter the recipe, for others I guessed or approximated the food from the list of foods given. That has taken a lot of time for me. How do folks log foods and exercise AND blog AND keep up with 3 or 4 forums? I can't do it. Of course, I should do only what I can do and enough to be successful. But I do wonder how it works out for others. AND some of them are working full-time jobs!

At any rate, I must keep on keeping on. I have had some whiny thoughts of late ("I wanna eat something" "I don't want to blog/log/share" "I probably can't lose more anyway" etc. etc.) And my exercise is hurting me. Other things are hurting too so I think that I may be in a lupus flare-up. So I know now I must put my head down and continue with the program as though programmed, no thinking, no justifying deviating from the path, just do it. Please God I will do this.

I've not been faithfully keeping positive affirmations going either. That, I know, is such an important part of retraining myself to good habits.

All right, I've now made note of my progress and my present barriers which have leapt up just when I was feeling most confident (isn't that the way?) and now that I've written down what I recognize and what I know is the right path, I have a chance of actually keeping the faith and keeping to the program. Isn't it amazing what talking out loud or on paper does to assist one's thinking which may become depressed or circular or insensible when kept inside the brain? Oh, my, we are fascinating creatures!