How can you tell I'm trying to lose weight AGAIN?! Well, the biggest clue is that I tend to get obsessed with food... but in a good way. *LOL* I start to really consider what I'm shoving into my mouth and why... and make better, informed, healthier, organic choices... and pay attention to portions. Yeah, that last bit is a big one because I LOVE food, I really do, and thankfully until Menopause I was Blessed with a naturally slender body and I never had to deprive myself of loving food for about the first Fifty years. That Blessing turned into somewhat of a double edged sword around age Fifty and beyond... and so for several years now I've battled weight related issues *le sigh* ... and because I'd never had to wage that war for so long, I wasn't very adept at fighting it or dealing with it effectively. I feel as though I've fallen on the sword so to speak a few times! Exercise I also love so I'm down with that part of the equation, no problemo... I have and can still walk for MILES and do almost anything I could do in my Youth... only slower. *winks* Yeah, moving at warp speed is somewhat a thing of the past but since I'm very ADHD slowing down has been a process, my Spirit is still apparently very youthful and my body battles with that fact sometimes! *LOL* But I still love good flavorful food and now I have to be more careful with it, which sucks when you're a foodie. Food isn't like most other addictions that you don't have to have and could totally give up and avoid, so having a love affair with it can be dicey and a constant problem... or so it has been for me the past few years. I've had the victory of losing all the weight I had set a Goal to lose, only to gain it back again within the past year... darn... that wasn't supposed to happen... I thought Maintenance would be the easy part?!? I was wrong... it wasn't... and isn't... and so, yes, I'm trying to lose weight AGAIN and motivate myself with the fact that I know it is possible and I can... but I've got to definitely do something different when I attain my goals this time around. Because the G-Kids have told me they want Gramma around for a very long time and they don't like it when I "walk old" or "act old"... i.e.: when I'm overweight and the effects of it are telling physically and emotionally. *LOL* They get concerned because they don't actually think of me as old, which I suppose is a good thing... and so they think I can and should do just about anything, just like their Friend's Parents do... and since I'm raising them it is wise that I should take better care of myself because my Warranty can't expire and I'm expected to last for at least another 15 years or so 'til they're grown and move out *winks*... so wish me luck and weight loss my Friends... I don't know where I'm going quite yet but I'm on my way... Dawn... The Bohemian