How is this for crazy: I set a goal to lose 5 pounds by my 45th birthday, and I hit it 2 and a half weeks early. I like this whole “small attainable goals” technique. “Go big or go home” is so two months ago.

It is really weird, but I am actually even more determined not to blow it by un-losing any of those pounds. Un-losing? Yeah, that’s what I wrote. Yeah, I know it is not a word or even a concept. You may even be thinking, “don’t you mean, gaining it back?”

Here is the thing: when it takes me two weeks to lose 5 pounds and I am able to gain back even one of those pounds within 36 to 48 hours, it is un-losing. The pounds are re-found or, at the very least, they were simply mis-placed to begin with. I am amazed at how eating like an ass for even one day can undo weeks of hard work.

So, the small, attainable goals thing is really important. Setting them, then hitting them, makes me even more determined to keep going. I do not want to have to get on here tomorrow and say, “um, about that 5 pound thing, well, it is actually just 3, carry on.”

I am not an expert blogger or motivator, but I am thinking that is not how you go about this whole thing. I have actually done that in a round-about way a few times since I started this thing and it feels the 180-degree opposite of what I am experiencing in this moment- with my five-pound victory racked up.

The big 4-5 is 2 and a half weeks away. I think I am going to revise. I am going to set a new February 4, 2013 goal. I will lose another 2 pounds by then. Two pounds do not sound like much, but when you are in your mid-40’s, with wonky hormones and all of the other creepy metabolism-bashing bastards that hop on board at this point in life, it is a lot. A whole lot.

So, yes, I will keep you posted.
You know I will. Till next we meet- and thank you to all of you who are following. It helps. You could be not-reading this, and it would still help- because I will think you are.