Oh, and here are some thoughts from this week…

• Must drink water. I just don’t drink it. Days can go by and I won’t drink water. My goal is to drink 15 glasses a day. (I mean I am a BIG girl.)
• Exercise must be done in the morning or it won’t happen.
• I may have been too ambitious about my schedule, with all that Yoga and stuff…will revisit
• I like cooking more now that I am being conscious of the food that I put into my body

I have got to get a new scale.

When I got married three years ago, I registered for and received a digital scale as a wedding present. (In a moment of prescience while creating my registry, I figured that I might need to watch my weight more carefully after marriage…and watch it I did…I watched it go up, and up…) Anyway, that scale has served me well, but now it seems to not be as reliable as it used to be. I’ve been weighing myself everyday to keep track of things, and the scale is just off. I guess I can try and calibrate it, but still, when you are trying to lose weight, false “positives” and “negatives” cannot be tolerated. (Within the span of a few minutes, this is what happened: I got on it and it said 239.5, stepped off and got back on and it said 251…and then fluctuated back and forth, before settling at 251…which is a higher weight than the 247 when I started watching my weight…and now is at 248.) I don’t have time for this games…My self-esteem is at stake here!

Now, I know that some of you would say, “Why are you weighing yourself EVERYDAY? You should only weigh yourself once a week…!” I do understand that logic, but I think that I got to this weight that I am at partially by just not paying attention to what was going on. Yes, of course, my clothes were getting tighter, my face bigger, my neck rolls larger…BUT I was a bit in denial about my weight. Weighing myself everyday forces me to stay focused, and to pay attention to what is going on with my body. When I was actively losing weight in college, and really paying attention to my body, I would go to GNC and weigh myself weekly. The cool thing about the GNC scale is that it prints you a weight ticket, so you have a paper trail. Somewhere in a box in my parents house, there is a journal with those old weight receipts. I may have to do my daily weigh-ins AND the weekly weigh-ins at GNC.

In other news, I also joined the Discovery Health Challenge (www.health.discover.com)
It has excellent tracking resources, and I even got a free 8 week pass to Bally’s Fitness. (Let’s see if they try to make me sign up for a membership…)

Well, it’s Saturday and I have lots of things to do. Have a great weekend!

PS…If anyone is look for great motivating tunes to work out to on their IPods, MP3’s etc…try Mary J. Blige’s new CD, especially the tunes “Work That” and “Just Fine.” I am off to “Work what I got!” ’cause my life is “Just Fine!”