Also, it makes me feel like I actually know what I am doing with all of this. That’s not a feeling that I’ve always had. Obviously I have done something right, but as the phases change through the diet, It isn’t always easy to figure out the right path to choose.

I feel now like I am zeroing in on 240. I still don’t know how long it will take, but I do believe it will happen. And that’s really the main thing here.

If you don’t believe that you can lose weight, how can you do it? I chose 240 partly because I thought it was a realistic goal. I am not trying to get down to 190 here. That is unrealistic. But 240 is a good, solid number that I can either stay at or try to move lower from. It makes sense to me.

So I believe I can get there, especially now, as I move into the 250s and continue to get as low as I have been in my adult life. It’s an interesting time to be me, I suppose.

I beat myself up a lot over screw ups, and I constantly tell myself that if I had just stuck with this a little more, I would probably already be at my goal weight. But then it occurred to me Thursday that, in just under six months, I have lost 40 pounds. That’s pretty damn good, even if you start at 300 like I did.

So I guess I should stick with it and just see what happens. Certainly I will take a day for myself on this upcoming weekend, but it shouldn’t derail me too much.

And, who knows, pretty soon, I might be coming in on the final 10 pounds.