FABULOUS FALL-ING POUNDS.

So September was a wash for me. It was just a bad month on the weight loss/control front. Temptations were too great at Disney to not give in... and I did have a fabulous time giving in... :)

Anyway, so the result of September was about 8 lbs gained. UGH.

I decided that I needed to start fresh with October. It's important that I get back on track because the holidays will be here before I'm mentally ready for them.

But getting back on track is so hard. (Read that again and whine in your head when you do it.) So I had to figure out a way to get back on track that I'd be motivated for and feel accountable about. I remembered that Carrie, Meredith, and Danielle all had said on different occasions that they were also feeling a lack of motivation lately. So I thought, "Why don't we all do this together?"

So I started a challenge for the four of us: every day we were going to try and earn 2 Activity Points while we stayed On Program. I send an email out to everyone the next day and we all report on how we did the day before. I'm calling it "Fabulous Fall-ing Pounds" for now... I'll have to come up with something equally cheesy for the Winter... ;)

Yesterday was the first day of the challenge and so far it's working out well. I was able to stay OP for the whole day (seems like it's been months...) and I even walked at 10:30 last night to make sure that I earned those 2 APs. I'm pretty excited! And it's really great to have a forum to discuss any issues about the program or our motivation, etc.

So we'll see how this goes. I'm hoping that by Christmastime I can be down to about 148. It's definitely do-able as long as I stay on track, and I think this challenge will make staying on track a lot easier. Yay! :)

So I bought the Trilogy on DVD the other day. We'd been talking about it at work, and then at dinner one night... and I couldn't stand it anymore, I just had to go out and buy it. Sort of an expensive impulse buy, but well worth the money.

I didn't realize until I started watching the first one (just plain old Star Wars or A New Hope for all the new schoolers...), just how long it had been since I really sat down and watched those movies the whole way through. I mean, I'm pretty positive I haven't seen them since I saw the re-releases in 97 in the theater. And before that it had been years.

I remember being a little kid and watching the movies... and liking them. Every time I see the very first scene of Star Wars, where the huge ship flies overhead, I think of being little and sitting on the basement floor and watching the movie on our old TV. I remember playing with ewok toys and a small x-wing toy that "broke apart" when you pushed in on the back. Star Wars was definitely a part of my early childhood and I have positive memories of the movie.

Then I got a little older. And I didn't watch Star Wars so much anymore. I'd seen those movies. I remembered that I liked them... and if I passed through the basement and one of my brothers was watching the movie, I'd stop for a few minutes and watch with them, but I didn't take the time anymore to sit and watch the whole thing. So when I bought the DVDs and brought them home and started watching them, I didn't think I'd be so thrilled...

But I was. The DVD versions of the movies are just so crisp looking... and exciting. Most of the original effects were so good that I didn't feel like I was watching a movie that was older than I was, and the new effects that George Lucas added in were mostly seemless... The movies just seem so fresh and exciting and new to me again.

It's great to be excited about Star Wars. I sit, broad eyed watching the action unfold, on the edge of my seat as if I don't know what's going to happen... cheering when the Rebels succeed... yelling at the screen for Darth Vader to help his son when the Emporer is killing him.

Every night for the past week I've had one of the DVDs going while I'm at home. And with all the extra features on the discs, I feel like I could do that for a month and not watch anything twice. :) I can't believe that I totally fell in love with these movies... I feel like a little kid. But that's what's great about the movies... They're so timeless, and just so good. :)