By last night, I was pretty much a basket case (this morning I’m still trying to get dried tears out of my eyes).  After a week of watching the number on the Wii scale move steadily, incrementally downward, Sunday morning it bounded back up again.  Can a Valentine’s brownie really have caused this?  I wouldn’t have thought so, but the scale knows what the scale knows.

I was at my wit’s end.  The food I eat and the beverages I drink are healthy and in healthy portions.  I get to the gym regularly and push myself hard when I’m there.   I won’t do anything unhealthy to force a loss; no forceful expulsions of food from my body, thanks.  So what’s left?  What can I do?

In my morning check of social media, today I came across the picture at the top of this blog.  I like it when things I need find their way to me.

Then I had an update from my activity monitor: it showed that I reached 99% of my goal this week.  At first that seems quite good, until I take into consideration that I had to lower my activity goal in order to make it reachable.

And the gears in my brain started working.  I figure I worked out 4 times last week, and I haven’t walked the dogs since before the ice started scaring me.

So, for this week I’m going to keep calm and carry on with healthy eating, but I’m going to focus on 4 strenuous workouts, 2 less strenuous ones, and a walk for each dog each day.  Just like with Zumba, I’m not allowed to be afraid of the elements.  If mail carriers can traverse ice and snow (THANK YOU, mail carriers!), so can I.  Why was I thinking that I need to walk as fast through snow and over ice as I do over clean pavement and treadmills?  Just the other day I took it nice and easy through the woods for a few miles, and I didn’t fall down.  Why has fear held me back?

Maybe this annoying, ridiculous incident with the scale has been a call for me to add a little more movement to my daily life.  Not gym exercise, just movement.

It's also a call to mind my goal, which is not related to anyone else's weigh-in this coming weekend.  My goal remains: To lose 5% by the April weigh-in.

Keep focused.