Update and Decision

I know I have been a little while getting back on here, but we have been working through some issues and I have fallen behind.  After weighing options and looking at my body's reaction to a few off days (I lost more weight on those than I had in a week), I have decided to quit counting my calories.  Instead my focus will be on better choices and portion sizes.  For those who don't know me well, I am a little OCD, and the calorie counting was actually counter productive.  I would get so consumed with the numbers that the stress was affecting everything in my life.  If I didn't lose the weight the numbers said I should, be it more or less, I was frustrated.  Also, I was never hitting my calorie goal, and my weight loss had stopped.

Then, I cheated a couple of days and lost 4 pounds.   So after a lot of discussion, we made the decision for me to quit calorie counting and simply make better choices and control my portions.  Carrie wants to add some old standbys back into the diet so we compromised.  I told her that would be fine as long as on those days SHE counted my calories and made sure I stayed under a preset limit.  We won't be adding those things back in everyday, just once every week or two.

I write all of this to say I will spend more time on this blog sharing feelings and concerns rather than daily logs.  This means my posts will be farther apart, but I will try to give a weigh in update each week with a little insight into what the diet has been.