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Expanding the theme of my blog and perhaps posting more often

 I have been a member of a health and fitness website, SparkPeople, for thirteen years. It was a great website and one thing that I wrote in quite a bit was a food/wellness blog. Over the years, I managed to lose about 20 pounds and keep them off for several years. Unfortunately, over the past few years, I grew lackadaisical about posting on SparkPeople and about tracking calories.

As a result, not only did I gain back those 20 pounds but also 10 more. Yep, I have about 30 pounds to lose to get to what I consider a healthy weight. But the sad news is that SparkPeople is closing next month. And all of my records will disappear too. I have spent the past couple of weeks copying over my SparkPeople blogs, starting in 2008. It's been QUITE the reminder!! I look at this photo from 2009, when I was actually about four pounds below goal weight:


I don't have a recent photo of me, but I certainly don't look like that! Some people would say, well of course not, that's 12 years ago, you're 12 years older, it's natural that your body will change. Welllll, I know one person on SparkPeople who lost weight at the same time as I did and she still looks the same today as she did in 2009. AND she is two years older than I am.

So, no excuses. I need to get back to what I was doing when I succeeded on SparkPeople--calorie counting, faithfully exercising (I've done very well in the exercise department for the past month)--and focus on eventually posting a photo of myself in similar clothing (sadly, I don't have that favorite t-shirt anymore, it got lost in an airline luggage mix-up.) 

Since SparkPeople is closing, though, I will be using this blog to keep track of how things are going. Some of my Spark friends have moved over to blogspot so hopefully they will find me here.

So, here we go! Today's been a good day, I walked my grand-dog, Hawkeye for 15 minutes (the most he can handle) and Mitzi for about 25 minutes and then I went to a 45-minute Zumba class. I've eaten within my calorie range. I lost one pound this morning, hopefully tomorrow morning's loss will "stick". I am not going to post any specific poundage here, just register the incremental losses (I hope!)

And that's it for today in the news department.


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  1. OneKidsMomJuly 9, 2021 at 5:28 PM

    Hi, and welcome to the BlogSpot "life raft" of Spark refugee bloggers! I'm thrilled that you came over, and I followed you home from WATERMELLEN's blog! You've now been added to my reading list, so I'll be seeing your new offerings. I am over at onekidsmomspark.blogspot.com. I'm hoping we can develop a community, albeit smaller, that functions the way we did back over there, through blogging!

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