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I am finding my way around in here, I think.  I enjoy reading your journal entries debbie, so I want to make some of my own.  It’s early morning here in Oregon.  Cold & cloudy, but not raining.  I want to finish up my Christmas shopping today and then I can really enjoy the holiday.  I love the wrapping, lights, music, and (God help me!) the food.  As I mentioned earlier I want to get through the rest of the year without gaining any weight.  I will try to keep busy, that shouldn’t be hard.  There’s always that sweater to work on. 

Seems like a good title for this phase of my development….I’m not at all sure what I’m doing, never having done a blog…don’t even know what that is.  But here goes;  I live in the woods in Oregon, just like the picture.  It’s beautiful, but scary when the wind blows.  Big limbs fall.  Sometimes trees.  The journey I am taking now started in 2006, just before Thanksgiving I had a doctor’s apointment and found out I weighed 206 lbs.  No surprise as I had been as high as 215….but still, you know anything over 200 is an eye opener.  Especially when you’re only 5′2″.  So I decided I would get through the holidays last year without gaining any weight.  A first for me.  Then I could use that to motivate me through the rest of the year.  I wanted to lose a modest 2 lbs a month.  So this year I weighed 180 just before Thanksgiving and promised myself to do it again.  So far so good, down to 177.  Now all I have to do is get through Christmas.  I find that baby steps….2 lbs a month, work the best for me.  If I make outrageous demands on myself, I ultimately fail.  Well, I’ll keep you posted, it does help make me feel accountable thinking someone out there is reading this.  (even if it’s only me reading it later.