The last few weeks have been pretty tough. My motivation took a serious hit since the holidays and I just have not really been trying much at all. In my attempts to re-motivate myself, I have been reading some of my initial posts. When I started I had some serious drive to do this, and I did very well, losing 15% of my body weight so far. Which is why I really wonder why my motivation is taking such a huge hit. I could understand being less motivated If I was not loosing weight each week when I get on the scale. But, with consistent losses I am still finding it hard to eat right lately. After reading some of my first posts, I am feeling a bit more motivated and feel like at least making an effort. So, we will see what happens this week.

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I have been neglecting my posting duties as of late. Between the demands of daily life, the kids needs, work and my motivational problems, I have been having trouble finding the time and desire to post. I haven’t updated the weekly weigh-in for a few weeks nor have I posted my daily meals to the food diary. I am going to try and get myself back into the habit of updating these pages on a regular basis. Hopefully that will help get me more motivated and give me a reason to further review my daily food intake and why I am eating the way I am. I am also planning on installing a new forum software with more features and a more robust link directory software. It will probably be a few more weeks before I am back to posting regularly and get the new stuff implemented. But, I am working towards that goal.

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I think one of the factors in my lack of motivation is because of the project that I started back on September. I had planed on it being done by the end of December. We are almost through February and I am still working on it. My client has been dragging their feet and it is now taking up more time than I anticipated and billed for. It is hard to explain, but it is having a huge impact on my state of mind since I want to get it done coding it so I can move on and focus all of my efforts on new projects. The initial preliminary launch by my customer was the end of November. They pushed it back to the end of March. Hopefully we will be done soon.

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My motivation continue to be a problem and now it is having a negative effect. This week, I saw my first gain in a while. Maybe this will actually be a good thing and give me the kick in the but I have been needing to get back on track. The nutritionist says that it is pretty common to hit plateaus with weight loss. I can understand that as I have had some weeks where I lost 10 pounds and then others where I lost 2. To me It seems that my body adjusts to how I am eating. Which would make the large amount of weight I lost when I initially changed my eating habits more understandable. Then again, I can have weeks where I hit my calorie target almost every day and lose 2 pounds and then weeks where I am over by 600 – 1000 calories almost every day and lose 5 pounds. The nutritionist also said that it is pretty common to hit a low point at this time of year with it being the middle of winter and all. Between the post holiday low and the fact that there is a lot less sun during the day can lead to some serious gloom. Oh well, in any case I need to get things moving forward again. I am looking forward to spring!

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