I came here to make a very quick post about probably not being online much this coming week. I’ve been working on homework during the day pretty much all weekend, and I’m not done. To be fair, I didn’t get out of bed until after 10 this morning, but still. In the next two weeks I have 4 tests, a number of assignments, as well as quizzes, labs, etc.

I thought I’d been keeping on top of things, but it seems like I haven’t. For at least two of those tests I need to put in some reasonable study time as well.

Yep, it’s official, I’m swamped. So, prioritizing at the moment - school first, eating in check, exercise (dropped), online (banned).

I’ll pop in later in the week if I feel I’m more in control. Take care all - as I know I’ll definitely miss posting!

I noticed that I’m slipping with the daily posts. I’m not off plan or anything, just seem to not get my act together each night to post. Since I know that’s a danger sign, I’m going to make more of an effort this coming week to get stuff posted.

This morning’s weigh-in was 236.8, which is 1.8 pounds down from last week. The 9-week loss is 13.0lbs (1.44/week) which is usually the ‘number’ I look at to see how things are going overall. The other little compulsive number I look at is how many days I’ve been ‘on plan’ primarily with food. I still consider a maintenance week ‘on plan’ since I accomplished what I wanted to. So this is day 23 on plan with food.

I finally feel like I’m pretty much in control of myself. However, I see the warning signs creeping in, so I’m keeping an eye on them. Even though yesterday came in on plan, I didn’t actually do the meal plan until after I’d eaten breakfast. I know it’s not a big deal, but sometimes it’s the little things that do you in. I did the same this morning - made and ate breakfast and then did the meal plan. This coming week I’ll make sure that I’m back to doing them the night before.

Next week’s plan is:

Continue on with The New Rules of Lifting for Women, 3 days a week. Cardio if I feel like it. For March at least that I’ll do 1900 on non-workout days and 2200 on lifting days and see how that goes.