A little background for those of you who don't know me. I joined PNP in April of last year and since then, lost 58 pounds in 49 weeks. However, the past six weeks I haven't made choices that have supported that weight loss and I've gained 17 pounds.

I've not beat myself up over this. I've realized this is due to my choices and I've just worked on being 'the watcher' through this and see what I can learn.

But, recently I've been taking a stab at reducing my buffering and making choices that support my goals. So, I've been writing plans that match what I was doing back at the beginning of March - but then not following them.

But, this AM I had an ah-ha. (Well, it was of a 'no duh')

I got up, did my weigh in, went to write my plan and had the thought "I would just like my weight to be a little bit lower tomorrow then today..." And the answer came back to me of "Well you just need eat a little better today than you did yesterday"

((You mean, 1% level up? -- I mean it's like some smart lady talks about that all the time!))

You see - meeting yourself where you're at, and doing 1% level-up isn't something only do if you're a newby. And just because you've learned to deal with one set of circumstances without buffering with food doesn't mean you are an expert at dealing with EVERY circumstance and you may (or I may) need to learn some new lessons ONGOING!

I was trying to go from eating and drinking all the things all the time to the 'perfect plan'...That's not how this works -- at least not for me! So I'm going to make today a little better than yesterday. That's all I ask of myself!