I was dreading my weigh in all day.  Before my family's visit I had been doing great on my eDiets plan.  In fact, I was ahead of my plan.  This week, my plan has me moving down to 174 pounds and passing the half-way weight loss mark at 175 (8 pounds of 16 total to lose to go from 183 to 167).  As I walked into the gym after a 20 hour workday the day before, my energy level was pretty low.  My mindset was to just hope that I didn't go too far backwards and I will be fine.  I kept telling myself "I can lose 2 or 3 pounds in 3 days if I have to in order to get to my goal."  Staying on track and keeping the positive momentum going is very big for me psychologically.  If I start feeling like I am failing, then I get more and more frustrated and lose the confidence that I have right now that I can do this - I can change my lifestyle to be in great shape and still work long hours and meet all the demands on me. 

    So, I walked into the locker room and there it was, staring me in the face, the equivalent of the diet confessional chamber, the trusty YMCA scale.  I walked over to it as if it was no big deal at all (I didn't want to seem like a whimp to the other guys in the locker room) and I stepped up.  Slowly, I slid the weight to the right, hoping, just hoping, that somehow I actually lost weight by eating bad for 2 days and not doing a real workout for 4 straight days.  I nudged it, then nudged it some more, then it happened - the weight balanced at 176.5 - just .75 pounds more than my best from the week before.  This was manageable.  I walked out of the locker room feeling tired, but not hopeless.  By the end of the workout I was down to a new eDiets plan best 175.5. 

 I ony have 1.5 pounds to go and I have 4 days to do it.  For those of you looking for moral to this story it is - "If you slip a little, do not fall completely off the plan."  If I had not stuck to it for 2 of the 4 days, then this might be a sad ending to my plan, but I did and now I am going to keep pumping until I make it to my goal this week.  Woo Hoo...new running shoes here I come!