A year later....

It's almost a year later and I'm now my 5th month into being 40 years old.


 I've spent every day wanting to get back to the discipline and commitment of the lifestyle I was leading when I was going to the gym regularly. But, every day I have been tired after work and it has become routine to simply go home; my gym bag still packed from months ago.


I had gone up to 165lbs and was edging out of my favorite pants. I am a thrift store shopper, so it wasn't a big deal--just go get another couple pairs for $6 each.

A new relationship has begun and while presently it is long distance, it's only for another year and we'll be seeing each other throughout this year. Prior to meeting, I scrambled to lose whatever weight I could manage and my first choice was to go back on the Dr.Bernstein program for 8 weeks. I lost 14 pounds and was happy enough with myself when I met him to enjoy the visit thoroughly.

However, in a LDR, after that first visit, there's a bit of a low point I wasn't prepared for and of course, right around Easter and PMS time when chocolate was not only abundant, but craved. I have decided that Toblerone=Chocolate Crack , so need to stay away from that or any version of it. I gained back 7 pounds after going on a chocolate campaign.

It's 9 weeks out from our next visit and I want to see what I can accomplish on my own at the gym. I went to the gym for the first time in a LONG time yesterday and had a session with a personal trainer to assess where I was at. I'm going to need to start nearly from scratch.

I am glad that I kept my workout book from last summer, so that I can see what I was doing back then.

According to the measurements at the gym, I'm 29% body fat. So--here we go....9 weeks to see what I can do!