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At the urging of my one reader (HI D!), I'm back in the blogging game, and about to get back in the whole healthy eating game too.

I've not been doing good the past couple of weeks. In fact, I've been doing the opposite of good... which you English majors out there know, and in fact anyone over the age of 2 knows, means I've been doing BAD these past 2 weeks.

It's like I got to the point where I couldn't keep South Beach going perfectly, so instead of modifying it to match up with my life, I just quit. I went in the total opposite direction and started eating just about anything I wanted. And I've paid the price for that.

I didn't even weigh this week because I knew it would be bad. But they weighed me Friday before my surgery, and I was 243.

243?

I started out at 246!

Now I know that it was a different scale, I had my shoes on, I was fully dressed, blah, blah, blah. But the fact remains that I am basically back to where I started and I am not ok with that.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do this week. Part of me wants to try phase 1 again because I know it works and get myself all detoxed again. But part of me knows that I just can't do that long-term so I wonder if I need to find something else that I can stick with. My biggest concern this week is that a couple people are bringing us meals since I just had surgery (bless my church friends!), and I don't really feel like I can tell them, "No carbs please!" But at the same time, I need some kind of plan to follow because I don't do really well on my own.

Tomorrow is a new day and a new start for me, but I'm not sure what exactly I'll be starting yet. I do know this... Nathan's valentine candy is under lock and key and is not for me! It helps that he's old enough to actually know what he has so I can't get away with stealing it anymore.

Any suggestions for me? You know... from my one reader? :)