Update: 3 lbs down 62 to go

I haven't blogged in awhile.  I figured this might happen when the spring semester started.

I've only lost 3 lbs since I've last blogged.  That's nothing to brag about, but I am glad that did lose some and definitely glad I didn't gain anything.

I'm re-starting my goal to see how many days in a row I can exercise.  After I started that last time I somehow hurt my neck putting me out of physical activity for almost 2 weeks.  I have a really hard time establishing routines again once I've hit a barrier.

I finally went to the clinic to get a physical.  It's been awhile. The past two years I've been to the doctor a million times for my back that I pretty much felt if I went to the doctor for anything else I'd have to consider these appointments my full time job.  I found out that I am anemic (again) and I'm waiting for some more tests to come back.  They are testing my thyroid for a number of reasons, but it will be interesting to see if that has had anything to do with my weight issues.  We'll see, if not I think I have to just come to the understanding that now that I'm 35 (which doesn't seem that old to me) I have to live with a slowing metabolism.  It used to be much easier for me to drop lbs.  Not anymore---I often don't see much of a difference between the weeks that I do great with tracking in My Fitness Pal and exercising and the weeks where I don't really do much at all,  which really impacts my motivation.  I know that there are so many more reasons to be healthy than the number on the scale, but it's hard to remember that day to day.

The nurse practitioner also mentioned to me the idea of being on a medically managed weight loss plan.  I'm not sure exactly how I feel about it.  While it would be awesome to have an expert in nutrition help me out---it does scare me to put $$ into something that just might fail again.  However, the consequences of poor health are much more costly---and the cost is more than monetary.

So that's the current update---nothing fantastic to report (I know that 3 lbs since the last time I wrote is good, but that's still only 3 lbs down since the start of this blog, it just feels more frustrating than celebratory...)

This image below that I found on google images (seems to be from Spark people) captures how I'm feeling right now.  I like the idea that all of these things are hard (for different reasons)......