A rerun of last year

I did something scary last night...something I've been avoiding for a long time. I stepped on my bathroom scale.

People who know me know that I have had a lifelong battle with my weight. One look at me, and it's no secret.

Well, the battle is back on. I've let the weight win for a while, but I am tired of letting it win.

Last year, as part of an advertising campaign with Trinity Mother Frances, I took on a challenge to eat healthy and exercise in order to lose weight and get more healthy. I was really proud of how well I did. I lost 30 pounds in 3 months...including a couple weeks of being very sick with bronchitis in there.

Well, my little trip to the scale last night revealed that not only have I gained back all that weight I worked so hard to shed, but an additional 8 pounds came with it.

I have one word for any other pounds that want to join their friends on my body: NEGATIVE!

It's not that I don't know what to do to lose weight or how to do it. Quite the opposite. I am a connoisseur of weight loss. I have participated in just about every weight loss plan out there at one time or another. It's just that I allow my circumstances to too easily become an excuse as to why I can't eat right and make the time to exercise.

Part of the ad campaign we had was a series of weekly columns in which I would outline how my week went and what did and did not work for me that week. I plan to have those again here...because, for some reason, people enjoyed reading them, but mostly because they help me.

They're an excellent tool for me to use to track what's going on in terms of my journey to a healthier me, and writing about the good and the bad is an excellent accountability tool for me.

I'm not going to post my weight right off the bat, by the way. Perhaps after I have had a significant weight loss I will, but for now it's not important how much I weigh (except to me for tracking purposes).

OK. Here we go. January 1 is the launch date!