your stage in life. We don't always drop weight because we have been eating well these days and sometimes we gain an unreasonable number of pounds because we ate one thing off plan. It is in part what drove me to stop weighing all the time.

As long as you have a plan and stick to it 80% or more of the time, you should lose weight in the long run.

Maybe try not weighing for two weeks or a month.

Get a pen and notebook (yep, researchers say that helps better than putting it on the computer).

Measure yourself.

Each week, make a healthy menu for meals and snacks.

Try to stick with it daily.

Exercise in some way. Increase the time or difficulty as you can.

Record the exercise.

Write what you ate and drank.

Even record your feelings or if you were hungry, or feel that you could have eaten less if you want to.

At the end of the two weeks or a month, measure first and write it down.

Weigh if you want.

In the end it is not about the scale, it is about the habits.

For us long haulers, it has become a game of what we can get away with sometimes and self-flagellation at others.

We need to break the bad habits and form good ones and forget the relationship with the scale. It is only one tool to use and not something to rule our lives.