I can hardly believe it has been over a month since I last blogged. Work and life have been CRAZY.

So crazy in fact that mid-March I decided to take a “break” from my program. My goal was to maintain until my break was over. To maintain I knew I had to watch my portion sizes, my food mix (veggies, fruits, protein, carbs, etc), keep drinking water, and exercise. The good news that this has worked and I am anticipating when I start back on plan I will be lower than when I went on my break. My “official” weight is 213 but my weight at home this morning was 207. I resart my program the end of next week. I can already tell I am in a better place mentally…and totally pumped to knock out the next 30 pounds.

In fact I am doing a six week exercise program that was in a Prevention magazine….basically it is 3 day of interval training mixed with 3 day of endurance + strength training. I really needed it to give my exercise some focus…I crave that structure because of when I was a swimmer. I am also pondering signing up for the Prevention-sponsored half-marathon in October. There is a walkers division and the walkers get an early start. In addition they provide some guidance on how to train. Again this structure along with an end goal I think would have a positive impact on me. I just need to make sure my DH will support my training–as each week I will have one day when I will need to walk a longer distance.

My goal is to get back into the groove of blogging. It really helps me keep me focused plus reading everyone elses entries gives me great ideas and perspective.