Day 59. It's been a busy month. EDIT: So busy, in fact, that I'm finally posting this on day 61.

Sorry, friends. I didn't think I would ever go three weeks between posts.

What am I saying? I went almost five years between posts before resuming this blog in January!

This was a big month, and it required all of my extra time. Here's what happened:

• My daughter finished building a very ambitious science fair project. If you're a parent with a kid who loves to enter the science fair, then you already know how much of your time their project takes up. The result was awesome, though: second place in all of Orange County for middle school engineering. The only project that beat hers was named the Best-in-Fair.
• The same overachieving child from above decided she wanted to set a new personal record for selling Girl Scout cookies. Again: her project, my time. (Please note: I loved all of the time I spent with her on both of these things, I just didn't realize how much of it they would take. Going forward, my February calendar will always be clear to allow for these two activities.)
• The Epcot Festival of the Arts was this month, and we went...twice.
• I finished a fifth draft of my book and began the querying process. I don't send a massive blanket of form queries to a mailing list, so this also takes a lot of time. I had the chance to speak to an agent about my query and develop it further. The first one goes out tomorrow.
• We started touring high schools so my little one could begin thinking about which to attend. Ninth grade is closer than it seems!
• Finally, I sliced off a good portion of my left pointer finger a couple of weeks ago. I had no idea how sharp that new potato peeler was until it peeled me. This caused problems with trying to type that fifth draft mentioned above, so I decided the blog could wait until my typing was somewhat back to normal, and here we are.

At the beginning of the month I decided to not write a daily blog, and my finger injury helped justify this. That opinion has changed after seeing that not writing a daily blog opens the door to never writing, and that's not okay. So here I am on the last day of the month, determined to update this blog daily from here until the end of the Mission. Here's where I am weight-wise:

I'm still somewhat shocked by this. I still remember the scale saying 344.3 at the beginning of all of this. I honestly didn't know how it would go. Would I fail like all of the other times? Would I look at this blog and a mostly empty notebook and think, "If only I'd kept trying..."?

But now I'm knocking on the door of the two-hundreds once again. I'm so happy. I'm even happier that I achieved my Week Four mini-goal as well. Mindblown is broken up into six mini-goals and I've hit all of the first four so far. Here is today's:

It was a struggle to stay on track this week but I got there.

EDIT: Honestly, I'm not sure what I was going to write for the rest of this. It was late on February 28 when I started. I'm sure it was going to be a summary of February from a weight-loss/goal-achievement standpoint, but it's now March 2 so it's time to move on. Thanks for being a reader of the blog. As always, I'll try to do better next time! Until then, here are the disclaimers:

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General disclaimers: In my posts I describe things that I am doing to reclaim my health based on what I know about myself. Please don't emulate my actions. I'm not a doctor, and when you read things in my blog they are not meant as advice to you or anyone else. They are simply a record of my own experience. Things like abandoning prescribed medicines and walking for miles while dealing with morbid obesity are bad ideas, but I'm an idiot and do them anyway. Don't be like me. Talk to your doctor before making major lifestyle changes, please. Also, if I write about a product, service or book and provide a link to it, you should assume that I'm part of a related affiliate program. This blog needs to be supported somehow!