How I kept a promise to myself this week ~and easily got back into ketosis and Low Carb Living!

I kept a promise to myself this week.

We are exactly 7 days home from vacation, and by pulling back and throwing myself back into eating "on program" ~ really focused on low carb, no sugar or cheating, as of this morning, I am back at 158.8.

-10 lbs.

I did it.

Another nod to this eating program working for me. : )

So... now the next chapter!

I walked this morning and got some steps in. Not huge, 1.0 mile exactly, but decided upon exercise movement.

We've also been doing yard work and moving around most the day. All the extra regular steps and movement that occurs in the Spring is part of the regular unearthing and breaking out of the winter cave.

I want to take it to the next level. There are still 6 weeks to make a big impact prior to the official summer swimsuit, pool and lake time.

I HAVE to start getting myself more organized in packing my workout outfit, running shoes and get myself an hour of focused weight training, walking, jogging, biking or focused movement into my day. The kids are full on back into their after school activities and while at their practices, I have the opportunity and time to get my own workout worked in. : )

That is the goal for this week.

Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Better than Before has been a recent inspriation. It is the book I started last year on the beach, finished this year and then re read and highlighted via my Kindle paperwhite.

The Happiness Project is a great way to set up monthly goals for changing things up or crossing off bucket list items with new challenges or by changing behavior. She is a list maker, likes acknowledgement and to get "gold stars for doing the task. An overall brilliant woman.

I have just started the new book, Better than Before , but it focuses on the drilled down definition of habits, how to create good ones, and reduce or eliminate the not so good ones.

I admire her obsessive and compulsive tendencies. :)

Maintain a reduction in scale numbers, and increase focused exercise.
(There, I have put it out into the universe)

It is time to create a new habit.