Spring and Longer Days....

What a wonderful title! I am so excited about warmer weather and longer days! I notice in the winter months that I don't walk nearly as much as I do when the days are longer and I am looking forward to hitting the local trail a lot more often now that I have more daylight hours. The warmer weather also means I can soon start fiddling around in my flower beds more which will give added exercise. The best part is that I feel pretty much back to normal except for a little sinus stuff thats hanging around. My poor parents are STILL sick and its been about a month for them! I feel so sorry for them and hope they are better soon. The weight maintenance continues to go well and I am just happy as can be. My body has settled into a 136/137 zone which is a little higher than I ideally wanted, but this seems to work and seems pretty easy for me to happily maintain. I have found it easy to stay at that weight in spite of weekly after church visits to Baskin Robbins with my family or nightly popcorn snacks while watching tv with my sweet hubby or even on nights of too much pizza or onion rings (it was good though lol). I "liked" being at 130 but I had to work much harder and be alot more strict to stay there. Once I start walking more I am curious to see if I can continue to eat this way and slowly crawl back toward 130, but if not, I could quite easily and quite happily live the rest of my life maintaining at this weight knowing that I don't have to say no when I want pasta or cookies with the kids. I have a really good friend that is trying to lose weight now and finding it difficult to find the will power to get a good start. I told her that being really strict with yourself at the beginning was what helped me out, knowing that in the end, I'd be able to relax and enjoy things more later. I hope she starts to see lower scale numbers soon.