1.9 pounds to reach my goal. How are all team members progressing? Does anyone here do meal preparation? I like to take a day and prepare a wide variety of healthy meals. Below I fix bake salmon and vegetables, for this week I also fix shrimp with broccoli, carrot, cauliflower, and red and green peppers. Additionally, I fix chicken chop suey with cabbage, carrot red and green peppers, and a few handfuls of spinach.

Today has been a really awful day. I mean REALLY awful!

I'm so motivated to lose weight right now, but my body seems to be fighting me. I thought I was getting to the point where I could start on some serious walking leading to getting back on my bicycle sometime this spring. But the knee I had replaced last June has "exploded" in pain and pressure on each of the last two days, to the point where I can barely walk. I've had to go back to using a cane for stability this evening, and getting in and out of a car is a painful ordeal. Orthopedist appt. made for this Friday.

On top of that, the heart issue I thought I was on top of kicked back in today, perhaps from all the pain. I'm supposed to be having a cardiologist call to make an appointment but it hasn't happened yet, so I will chase that down tomorrow.

I'm so frustrated!

But...there is good news. Before the weight loss began in January, this would have been an evening where I would have tried to drown my frustration in unhealthy foods, looking for soul-less flavor to try to cheer me up.

But not today. I just ate my last snack of the day, and I'm still 300 calories under my goal! I needed this victory, but I was so busy feeling sorry for myself that I didn't see it until just a few minutes ago.

Healthy habits can move us forward, and they can sustain us when we fall backwards. I want comfort, but not in food that will do me no good.

Thanks for letting me vent. Hopefully tomorrow goes better than today, but if it doesn't, I still won't turn to food to comfort my pain. I'm too good for that!

What are you plans to keep yourself from derailing your progress over the weekend?

I will stick to the plan and prepare all my meals like during the weekday, with the exception of a potato bar at a church event on Sunday. But potatoes are part of my diet, so as long as I don't load them up with high-calorie toppings, I should be good.