Routine Maintenance

Where did everyone go? Has everyone fallen off the wagon and they are too embarassed to blog? Spring is here and your all too busy to blog? You've fallen and you can't get up? Somebody send a signal!

Last week I was in maintenance mode -- which I'm not going to beat myself up over, but I'm not where I want to be yet, so I need to push forward. I had several distractoins from attending the gym - some work related and some pleasure related, but I only got there ONCE last week (UGH!). I'm doing really pretty well with my food though -- I'm hanging out in phase 1 1/2 of South Beach - which is to say, I'm mostly in phase one in my routine, but I stray over to phase two occasionally. But I only really blew it on one meal -- a full plate Mexican dinner (which was really good by the way) but even that was a chicken dish and nothing fried.

I've just begun a new (and really incredible) relationship, which of course I'm really happy about. But relationships are notoriosly not good for my diet plans -- I usually end up eating more often and not good stuff and I fall out of exercise routines (it's hard to get up and go to the gym when you didn't get enough sleep the night before!). So I am doubly pleased with this guy because he is a VERY healthy eater - lots of veggies and fruit and granolla and yogart; lots of whole grains and natural ingrediants, no peservatives, that kinda stuff. And he is very active - hiking, canoing, he's a cylcalyst, etc. so we tend to do active things together and he's supportive of my efforts. (Of course this is just the icing on the cake - I won't go into all his other wonderful and beautiful traits here).

So - the bottom line - it was a maintenance week - I went down a little, I came back up a little, pretty much in the same spot I was 2 weeks ago. But not discouraged at all.