Losing 10 pounds is great. Truly, I’m very happy. As I’m embarking on the second half of Phase II…I’ve really managed controlling my eating (check); raised my activity level appropriately (check); cut out the 6 additional elements since Phase I (check)…so now I’m pretty much….well, coasting. There won’t be anything truly “new” for me for awhile…just staying the course and methodically losing more weight. 

I have about 20 more pounds I want to lose — I feel like I’m in mile 10 of a marathon…I made it a great distance but I still have far to go. And in marathons…a lot of fans are at the start and toward the end of the marathon trail cheering you on and rallying you home…the middle portion of the path typically has a lighter crowd (I’ve never run a marathon, mind you, but this is what my marathoner friends have confirmed)…so I feel like I’m in that middle part where I need to find more resolve to keep myself “high” on my successes. Not to keep myself actually DOING the program, but to continue with the mental excitement that I’ve had for the past two months. Losing that, I fear, will make me weaker.

I am going to have to call on my sisters in the program…the five wonderful women who are doing this with me to keep me going. We’ve had our ups and downs and if anyone can give me a good whipping into mental shape it is them. Also, you all out there who are doing this too–how are you staying on your high? Please let me know your secrets. In the meantime, I’ll keep plugging away and trying to revive that adrenaline that has kept me going so well so far!