This is a fake introduction, as traineo informs me I have been a member for 11 months and some change. It's appropriate to "rejoin" though, as I'm really a different person than I was when I had my initial success here last year. The last 6 months has been hard on both my mind and body. I moved to a different part of the country (away from old workout buddies), bought a house, and started working a stressful 60-90 hour/week job with limited food options. My one day off a week is usually devoted to taking care of things around the house and spending time with my loving "other" who brings out the worst in me when it comes to indulging tasty, less than healthy culinary pleasures. I'm outside less since it's dark out when I get home. Add this to a yearly fluctuation in weight that's been a pattern for the last few years, and I am right back where I started last year. Agggh.

The plan is much the same as it was last year: pack all lunches, eat out one per week or less, go back to tracking weight watchers points on their website, try to increase activity when I can, and start logging weights and progress again. Stock the fridge with foods I know work for me. Try to get the man more on board with healthy eating and maybe buy mountain bikes in the spring. One thing that will actually help is that this spring, like last spring, he'll be working out of town all week so food decisions are entirely my own. Hopefully there will be no life overhauls to throw things off track, and I won't be writing this again next year.

Thanks for being here.

good luck!

Good luck Megan! Let us know how it goes

thanks guys

Welcome back Btw, 90 hour work week!! How is that even possible?

Best of luck, Meg! Keep us in the loop and we will do what we can to help!

some 30 hour shifts...