Nutrition.

I'm calling in reinforcements. I need backup. Summertime is a TRAP for me as far as diet goes! Despite the fact that I run between 16 - 20 miles per week I have hit a weight loss plateau. On one hand, I'm happy that I've been able to indulge to a degree without gaining; but I'll be damned if all this running is going to just be cancelled out by cake, cookies & whatever else passes through my kitchen.
When I was tracking calories before, I lost 12 lbs in a matter of a month or so of some pretty strict self governing. Its really fun to see the scale move backward... It's also really fun to eat chocolate cake. Alas, it really is time to get back in touch with the reality of the situation: I have a closet full of "pre-Abigail" clothes that are tailored to a healthy size for me. I need to get back there. I wasn't "thin" by any means pre-pregnancy; but I was happy with my apperance. So here we go again with the calorie count site. I won't call it a diet; it really is a lifestyle.
God knows I've taken enough health science, nutrition, diet, exercise & weightloss classes to date to know what I'm doing. So I lift my glass of ice-cold decaf green tea to you! Summertime is here, and there is no better time than now to recommit to healthy eating.
So as far as calorie counting goes, my biggest challenge is that I go overboard in policing myself & tend to end up several hundred calories short of a healthy diet at the end of the day. At that point, trying to stuff them in is useless. Balancing between a healthy number and "starvation mode" may have played a role in the plateauing of the past. I think that's a new word. Roll with it. Plateau is an adjective now.