Getting Back to the Sweet Spot

Good morning and HAPPY 4TH OF JULY...okay, and Happy Birthday to me!!!

Before I get out early this morning for a run, I wanted to update my blog and "come clean".  I am feeling very frustrated.  I gained a few pounds in the past few weeks as a result of not paying close enough attention (or any attention at all) while my Mom was visiting.   It always happens.  Every time I'm visiting with Mom, whether she's here or I'm at her house, I gain a few pounds.

But now I'm really struggling to "get it back".  I am now a few pounds above goal and a few more pounds away from "the sweet spot".  The sweet spot for me is my comfort zone, where my clothes are loose fitting, I didn't feel or look "puffy" and where I had a little cushion between my current weight and goal weight.

I am battling back.  This week is tough.  Big picnic last weekend, July 4th, birthday week, big picnic this coming weekend, and also our wedding anniversary.   But I know what to do and I am doing it, and I know that I will get back to that sweet spot, hopefully sooner rather than later.

So how am I dealing with it?  Well, I am dealing with it.  That's the answer.   I know what the answer is.  I am tracking "everything", drinking lots of water, eating lots of fresh fruit and veggies, and getting in lots of activity.  I normally wouldn't run three days in a row, but Monday and Tuesday, I just felt like I needed to move, and this morning I am going for a short run alone for my birthday.  It's sort of like my birthday gift to myself.  I might make it an annual thing, before any parading or barbecuing, the usual 4th of July stuff, I will go out and run (because I can) to remember where I was in life physically and where I am now.  I hope that ten years from now, I will celebrating my 10th Annual Birthday Run!