Tuesday, December 30, 2003

 
Well, I thought 3 weeks was bad before, now it's been almost 6 months since I posted! I never was good at keeping a journal.....

To catch up a bit:

We each lost 40 lbs or so on our diet and did really good until mid-September, when we went to Las Vegas. Now, we had planned to go off the diet while we were in Vegas, but of course that meant I could tell myself I didn't need to worry about the diet for the week or so before the trip, since I was going to go off anyways and an extra week wouldn't hurt, would it? That also meant that it was that much harder to get back on the diet, which we never did. Something was always coming up, like our Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) party in October, which always has such great food. Then, Thanksgiving was just around the corner, so we might as well wait til after that so we could gorge on turkey and stuffing and all the other good stuff. And of course after Thanksgiving comes "The Holidays", which means parties and sweets and Christmas dinners. So that leaves us with New Year's and our resolution to go back on the diet. I supspect we'll be hogging it up this week for our last hurrah before dieting starts again.

However, seeing as how we did pretty good last time and we have lots and lots of recipes, I think we'll be okay and do pretty good this time around. I kept most of the weight off until the last couple of weeks and I might even be ready to start exercising on the days when I carpool in with my coworker.

Scuba class

Oh yeah, we also get certified for scuba diving in September, but we haven't been diving since then because renting equipment is such a hassle. We haven't bought any because it's really expensive and we still plan to lose a lot more weight. So, the goal is to be down to our "ideal" weights by summertime so we can buy scuba gear that fits and go anytime we feel like it.




Jacki 12/30/2003