Three H: Holy, Healthy, Happy

Yeah, you can tell by my face that I don't take a whole lot of bathroom mirror selfies... I'm doing well to take the damn photo, forget posing and pouting and all that nonsense.  On the plus side, my bathroom looks way better than it did in previous progress photos; I didn't have crop out as much junk or strategically stand to avoid airing my dirty laundry- which is a good thing because my phone was dead and I had to plug it in. So hey, maybe I have made progress in other ways!  Anyway, here I am wearing a way-too-small fitted ladies' XL t-shirt with Rick from the Shirt Tales. Isn't he so cute? That spunky little smile of his sure is encouraging! I'll try to remember to smile the next time I take a photo! 

Before I share my back-logged of weight logs, let me briefly share the carrot I'm using as a motivator!  When I was a child in the 80's I loved the tv show Shirt Tales. My husband managed to find some and gave the episodes to me as a gift a while back, and now our daughter loves watching it, too! She especially loves Pammy and Kip, but she thinks all the Shirt Tales are awesome. On a random streak of luck, I discovered that Hallmark was releasing limited edition Shirt Tale Itty Bittys available online only. They had Rick, Tyg, Bogey, and Pammy. I'm not sure why they didn't include Digger as he was part of the original crew (I can see not including Kip as she came later) but oh well.. .I had to have them! So as soon as  they came available a week or two ago, I was up bright and early ordering them online! I figured they'll make a great stocking-stuffer for our sweetie at Christmas and I can enjoy them along with her. Well, they also had a Shirt Tales T-shirt w...

For the past several months, I've slipped into, wallowed around in, and am now trying to climb myself out of a rut. The last post back in April was all about my desire to redouble my efforts. I even bought a cute new journal to track my weight and food intake. I tracked everything I ate. For a day. After that, it became clear that I wasn't going to be able to maintain that. I journaled just a little, but basically ended up using the book to track my weight. And then even tracking my weight began to falter. But I knew from past experience that not weighing at all equals huge weight gains. The main thing I did to take care of myself over the last few months was to weigh myself daily; I didn't do so great at it, but I kept going and starting again after faltering. Leafing back through those old pages, it became clear to me that I was too busy or too frazzled or too stressed to really care for myself. Even my weight log began to look a jumbled mess; dates scribbled out, weigh...