For those in the northern tears its getting to feel a lot like winter. The leaves are falling or have fallen and we are getting the first taste of freezing. The South and Florida, having suffered from record setting heat this summer and fall should bring a little more tolerant tempratures. Being that Christmas is comming, people experience the Christamas season from many different perspectives. My point is, its all a state of mind. Our state of mind is largely based on our personal experience. People who are battling weight have a much different perspective on their body image than people who do not. Because of the emotional aspect of weight loss I am finding that is extremely important to utilize the daily food and excercise log and faithfully fill it in. Analyzing long term trends has enabled me to see what seems to be working with me and also helped me quantify the short term setbacks that we all encounter. I have been keeping track faithfully all of my food/excercise since August 01st and because of this I have been able to determine in spite of several short term plateaus that I am loosing at a consistant rate when looked at montrh to month. Anyway that seems to be working for me. When I het on a scale and find that I did not loose any weight since the last weighing I find comfort that month to month my program is working. Last weigh in 232.8,loosing appx 20lbs a month for three months in a row. As confidant as I sound I hope it keeps up. Anyway, I have an acre of leaves to rake befoe the Bears game starts, so Happy November. Mike