PAINFUL CHOICES!!!

I am on a diet (again). I think dieting is one of the hardest things I have to do in my life, but I am determined to get back into shape. It is not so much what I look like (yes that is part of it), but how awful I have been feeling. And, I am AFRAID of diabetes. I am on a strict, but healthy and well rounded diet. It is painful and just plain hard work! I have been doing it for a little over a month now. Lara told me about this wonderful site on the internet that has helped me so much. It is a free site that aids with a diet (or you can do your own like I do), and tracks your food intake, water intake, weight loss, and exercise. It also will connect you with others via blogging to get encouragement. I don't participate in that, but the rest of the site has been so helpful to me to see visually what I am doing. When you register, it even will set a date for you of when you will weigh your goal weight if you stay on their diet. That helped me so much to have an actual date to shoot for! It gave me hope! But to do it I will have to be good through the holidays. Anyway, I just wanted to pass it along to anyone who could use this tool. It takes a little time every day to track, but it is well worth it. And it is FREE! ---- www. sparkpeople.com