Good mornin' Royals!!! Hope everyone has fantastic weekend plans and that it is as lovely where ye are at as where I am. Lovin' this fall weather and my better focus.

I am off to do a mini hike 'round the neighborhood!

Woot!

An aside, hope I am not hoggin' the palace this fine morn' ...

Just to share, probably should put this in my blog as it is to me an earth shakin' revelation ...

Benefits of e-reader!!! Weight loss still going slow but steady. Don't say eat less lol 'cause my current calories are very low, BUT losing some, lost the six pounds in three weeks but something missing in how I feel.

NOW, the e-reader brought me an interesting thing. Was browsing diet books for fun and they have all the old Sugar Buster books. That low gi plan (not a totally sugar free plan, just a low gi, low sugar, zero corn and zero a few other things, the original, BEFORE South Beach and all the other clones) has largely been debunked and fallen out of favor in favor of the glycemic load (which IS important) but here is whatI remembered from sugar busters: I felt better on it than ever in my life (gave it up because hard to find food without corn), I counted calories easily (they tell you not to count calories but I did) and was never hungry, I reached my original weight goal and below and maintained it a long time, I did not miss donuts or other bad stuff, I occasionally strayed and did not have too much trouble as my blood sugar and habits had been corrected enought to bounce right back.

So was browsing Kindle, relaxing just now thinking of diets (my hobby) AND saw the old books I used to love. Downloaded one and started reading again. I know the plan backwards, was on it for years, although I did modify to suit my own beliefs since it was dated even when I did it.

Light dawned that while I lost a lot of weight originally during the major phase of my weight loss, I ONLY had total success after I started Sugar Busters.

Light dawned that it would not take much to fix my eating TODAY to conform to my modified (slightly) version of Sugar Busters.

Off to grocery for sprouted bread and eggs, a favorite legal meal of mine!

Milk permissible so will get milk (Sugar Busters does not forbid milk, but other older low gi plans do, however, later research shows that milk is an exception to the gi index in that it is high on the list, it actually helps control blood sugar, so I do intend to have milk).

Without the e-reader, wouldn't have had this epiphany or acted on it so quickly.

Woot, dear queenlies, hopin' ye are havin' a majestic day and just wanted to note that I LOST A POUND!!! Double woot!

I could not figure out how to update my ticker, think I did it wrong or something, so I did a new one to reflect the EIGHT POUNDS I have to go in my goal to get to a certain lovely goal by January 1 using a holiday theme.

Will, as stated previously, then consider losing more to get down to or even slightly below the lowest I had reached before this little reversal and upward trend started relatively recently.

Salutations, Royals

Doing well since starting Sugar Busters up again and also buying the new software.

I have been really obsessed with this journey during my little vacation from work (seems like vacation), will have to do some meetings starting tomorrow but intend to keep up the focus.

Have been having fun with the new software creating a whole "easy" week of exercise so my streakity is all planned out. The Fitday PC and the app also that I have for my phone that just did calorie counting had no separate planning session, so I really like this. It is an old-fashioned piece of software somewhat but I am enjoying it.

It seems to me that I have been exercising incorrectly and that following my year of not really doing as well as I should have as to recovery and building strength, I need to stay with only walking, weights and callanetics this week again, so I planned a nice easy week. I am also not stretching enough so I will start entering stretch into my streakity time as I always have until recently when frankly I haven't been stretching athletically and barely am doing pilates, callanetics (which isn't stretch but it kind of does it) and yoga, although didn't put yoga in this week.

So I'm obsessed, but t'is fun. So happy with the way things have been turning out for me.

Speaking of palaces, though I was not, I found I could not finish the six book saga (A Song of Fire and Ice) by George Martin. It was vastly depressing, still a very good read but did not want my mood to return to depression.

Just rereading Sugar Busters and reading the new Evanovich at present.

Is anyone reading anything great these days?

Have a great week, Royals!

Huzzah, all royals! Taking a day off to reformulate all my goals, including the weight one. I had 8 pounds left on the ticker for the holiday weight I wanted to achieve, originally had a goal to lose 15 and then probably lose 10 more. Bought some new software that really clarified where I want to be and the significance of the date I wanted to be at that, so now am doing a kind of day countdown. In 145 days from today, I want to be a total of 22 pounds from the weight I am now (did an extra weigh-in today and the weight was the same as on Sunday). So this includes the eight I had to go on the holiday challenge, the 10 I wanted to lose to get back to where I was in March, 2010, and four pounds more for a kind of slush fund in case I get crazy and regain some again. I am going to do a new ticker reflecting this.

Hope all royals are okay and that I am not hoggin' the thread! Woot!

Woot to all and any Royals who passeth by this way this day!

This is my Day 144 (I am counting backwards to the day I will weigh my new ideal weight that incorporates the eight pounds I had to go on my 15 pound march to the holidays and my previous weight goal from the days of major weight loss, plus 10 more to take me to the new, lower weight I was in early March, 2010, plus four more for the heck o' it!

Havin' a good day, had a temp job and went shopping and off to do some more of the latter as I need a space heater for winter.

Woot, hope all are having a great day!

I plan on makin' it so and stickin' to the plan like glue!

This is my Day 143, counting backwards like Merlin to the day I will be 22 pounds lighter (although hoping it happens before that and then I will re-evaluate)!

Feelin' very Decemberish! So looking forward to the season to come: U.S. Thanksgiving, Winter Solstice, Christmas, New Year's.

For me, March 25 is also a holiday, celebrating an anniversary of sorts and the day I will weigh 22 pounds less than I do now.

Although I hope I get there sooner.

Going to work soon, a night meeting.

So nice to be back in the palace.

Day 142, got up early to exercise as I have a 9 a.m. meeting, then appointment at vet for doggie checkup then have car thingie attended to.

Still sugar free. The new diet software (not a phone app) that I have has a planning function that is so nice. I got around my usual desire after meetings to have sugar by carefully planning the entire day's eating and so had no desire for candy following last night's meeting.

I am going back to bed for half an hour before my walk!

Feeling so happy. Everything is going my way (I think that is an old song by Rodgers & Hammerstein )!!!

Have a great day, all royals, whether ye see this or not!

Good morning, Palace! Woot! I am on Day 141!

Working today! Hope everyone is having as great a day as I plan. I am glowing with happiness today and eating these wonderful beanitos for breakfast. They are low glycemic chips made from beans instead of corn. They are incredibly filling and satisfying and I got them from Sprouts.

Day 140 and the Three Queenly Muses of Weight Management (Diet, Determination and Exercise) came to my rescue this week. Lost a pound and a nice inch loss also! Happy moi!

Arabella, congrats on getting back to the food tracking. I am still using apps and software and other things as circumstances change. I love to track my food but attempts to do so with a group online have proved not so happy in the end so I just keep it between moi and the software lately. I did try that sugar free challenge on FB but dropped out as it made me want to eat more sugar lol.

I am out of Beanitos and hope to have time to drive to Sprouts to get some tomorrow as 10 of those were more satisfying to me than whole bags of other chips. I think you will like them, Wood Nymph.

Yea on the books. After I give them a good try, I don't want to waste my time reading something that does not suit, however good.

This is my Day 138, counting backwards in life, like Merlin to March 25, 2012 when I will have the extra weight off and also some issues resolved in life, but even if the latter doesn't occur, I will indeed have the pounds off and be perkier for it!

Yay for happiness! I agree!

Yea, so true for moi, Wood Nymph, re weight and life being connected.

Weight management and physical fitness, a friend once told me, are almost a religion for me. I am glad that I feel that way as it helps me keep going.

This is my Day 137. Have made a LOT of important decisions this morning and taken care of some things that needed to be taken care of, now doing car registration online and then off to pay a bill and mayhap eat something healthy out. I don't have to work until tomorrow night.

Let's DO make it the best ever day. I really think it might be.

I need to do yoga also. I am trying to bring the body back into compliance after some setbacks. Just need my yoga routine for 15 minutes every other day but skipped yesterday.

Took a two hour walk also!