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Finally!\u00a0 No.\u00a0 I’m not reporting anything about writing.\u00a0 LOL\u00a0 I’ve had trouble focusing, and I’ve been struggling to find the desire to write. So nothing is happening on that front.\u00a0 I can’t really expect anything to happen since I haven’t been doing anything to make<\/em> it happen.<\/p>\n

Payback full<\/a><\/form>\n

But what I have<\/em> been doing is trying to lose a few pounds. I’m overweight. Have been for about 20 years. In the last few years, I’ve packed on even more excess baggage. Getting older,\u00a0 Iguess. So one of my New’s Years’ resolutions was to change my diet and try and get more exercise.\u00a0 I set a goal of losing 40 pounds by the end of May.<\/p>\n

Yes. For those of you who read my blog regularly, that’s when I’m taking my cruise.\u00a0 LOL\u00a0 And yes, the prospect of being seen in public wearing a bathing suit is some pretty good motivation.\u00a0 It’s also a good reminder that I’m going to want to be in good enough condition to hike around the Mayan ruins at Tulum without getting out of breath. I want to be able to take the stairs on the ship rather than wait, and wait, and wait for the elevators. I want to be able to enjoy every possible activity without sitting out because I just don’t have the energy.<\/p>\n

So yes, the cruise has made it much easier to stick by that resolution.\u00a0 Here it is the end of March and unlike years past, I’m still working to keep that resolution.\u00a0 I was doing so well at first. I lost a pound or two a week steadily for the first six or seven weeks. I’d lost about 16 pounds, and then it happened.<\/p>\n

The dreaded plateau<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Paradine Case ipod<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ugh. You know the one. The kind that makes you want to quit trying. The kind that makes you wonder if you’ll ever lose another pound. The kind that brings on that little devil who sits on your shoulder and whispers in you ear, “Go ahead, eat that pizza. You ate nothing but rabbit food last week and what did it get you? You didn’t even lose a half a pound.”<\/p>\n

It was the kind of plateau that made me look at my exercise bike and think, “What’s the point?” For three weeks I went to the gym at least twice a week and continued to climb 4 flights of stairs at work every day<\/em>. Twice a week at the gym, I’d get on the scale and see little or no change at all. Once it even showed a 1\/4 pound gain!<\/p>\n

Donald’s Dilemma film<\/a><\/u> <\/p>\n

Talk about discouraging and disappointing. Part of me wanted to give up. I admit it, but I kept telling myself, “It’s just a plateau. Every dieter hits them.”<\/p>\n