Once again my weight is fluctuating. Fridays, weight has  me down to 162, with fluctuations up to 164 over the weekend. I’m getting close to the 40 pounds lost milestone.  One of the things that I have come to realize is that my metabolism has changed. This is why I am losing weight when I am on the Weight Watchers Maintenance Plan. I still haven’t found the balance of daily points and exercise. I don’t mind losing a few more pounds and what not, but I would like to eventually level out a bit. When I started on the maintenance plan. I’d lose many a pound a month, now I’m losing upwards of three a month.

I feel like I’ve been on a bit of a fitness slump. I’m probably being too hard on myself, seeing as its not like I haven’t been working out at all. I’ve just not been working out every single day. This is also not to say that I am wholly inactive either. I tend to ebb and flow through the cycles of the month. Most of the time, I stick to my daily points with small overages that come out of my flex points. At least one week a month, I want to eat everything in sight that isn’t nailed down, which is usually followed by a week of having a low appetite. My daily fitness follows suit, normally I work out to some extent every day, then I go through some doldrums and either decrease the duration of the work out or don’t work out at all. I guess in the grand scheme of things 20 minutes of exercise is better than nothing.

In better news, I had to buy a dress for my sister-in-laws wedding at the end of the month, much to my shock, I now fit into a Size 10 or Medium sized dress without effort. I can’t remember the last time I was a size 10. I almost always was a size 12 and after the weight gain a size 14. It is definitely a nice feeling knowing that I can now buy clothing pretty much anywhere and have it fit. I was pretty limited for awhile since most places carry very little about a size 12. Suffice it to say, I can’t wait to go jeans shopping this fall since my size 14s and 12s will no longer fit… in a good way.