Doing what I know best, resolution #3

Resolution #3 is Lose Weight. Easy peasy, right? I've done it before, many times over the years. The problem is really two-fold: losing the weight is only half the battle, keeping off the lost weight is part two of the battle. Part two is where I always struggle. Not that losing weight in the first place is easy, it's not, but maintaining the loss, now there's a real challenge.<br /><br />I've been watching my weight creep up the last few months, now I'm 22 pounds above my lowest weigh-in last year. I have all kinds of excuses but none of them matter. What matters is where I am right now.<br /><br />How am I going to get "there" from "here"? Here being 178 pounds and there being 145pounds (my new goal weight). That's 33 pounds of fat that I need to lose. <br /><br />1. Journal. I know it sounds easy and it is easy. It's also a big old pain in the butt, but at the same time, it's a necessary evil. Journal and lose weight, don't journal and gain weight. Hmmm...which shall I chose? <br /><br />2. Back to the Weight Watcher meetings. Tomorrow I'll be back, along with the multitudes. I'm dreading the official weighin, but it is what it is.<br /><br />3. Actively try to figure out what is wrong with me. I have food issues, and I don't know why. I do know I'm not normal when it comes to food. I don't look at food as sustenance, but as pleasure, which is a totally screwed up view of food.<br /><br />I'm reading a new book, The end of overeating. It talks about "hyereating" and I totally get what the author is talking about. Not everyone can relate, but I do. I can't wait to get to the Food Rehab section. Maybe I'll find some answers.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPtka4jhq7u2NL2046AjuksyNdgN1ORu-ZLG-spJJNnrejDYHefdd7HiKMzpKAYL7fyMwCxXYkd21GrJMc7p10wlhcNyKqq3kpDeudOcJQuB0Ly5bFUAvzp5YefIPnQnB1XcsIquQfCcbI/s1600-h/The+end+of+overeating.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422047577595454834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPtka4jhq7u2NL2046AjuksyNdgN1ORu-ZLG-spJJNnrejDYHefdd7HiKMzpKAYL7fyMwCxXYkd21GrJMc7p10wlhcNyKqq3kpDeudOcJQuB0Ly5bFUAvzp5YefIPnQnB1XcsIquQfCcbI/s400/The+end+of+overeating.jpg" style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 257px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" /></a><br /><br />That's just a start. I have a long way to go to get this figure out. I thought I knew it all, when actually, I know practically nothing.

Doing what I know best, resolution #3

Resolution #3 is Lose Weight. Easy peasy, right? I've done it before, many times over the years. The problem is really two-fold: losing ...

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