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The scale is starting to budge!  Despite my occasional exceptions to the diet rules, the number is moving in the desired direction.  Mind you, this is the home scale, not the official weigh-in scale of the personal trainer, but I'm still encouraged.

Those of us who are working in the Fox Toledo Newsroom today (Memorial Day) are having a 'cook in'.  A cookout without the actual grilling.  More of a potluck, really.  I'm expecting temptations and am hoping I can find some vegetables among the choices.  I think I'll allow myself a hot dog with mustard and no bun.  I brought a fairly diet friendly grilled chicken pasta salad with low carb penne pasta.

My training diet plan says I should avoid beef for now, in favor of chicken or fish.  But yesterday, the smell of grilling was in the air, so I did make hamburgers, but had just one on a whole wheat bun with a side salad.  And that was after an hour of bicycling and aerobics and lots of gardening, so I didn't feel too guilty.

Good habits sure are harder to establish than bad ones, but I am finding that following the eating rules is getting easier as I go along.  It's feeling like less of a sacrifice to steer away from big helpings and refined flour and sugar.  But I'm also seeing that you really have to patient to peel the weight off.