My goal was to weigh 140 by the end of July, and this morning I weighed 140. So there you are. Next up: 135 by the end of August. Onward and...downward.

My other goal, just for this week, is to burn 200 calories a day in planned exercise. That's an easy goal -when I exercise. But I need to increase the number of days each week that I actually do something. Yesterday I did a bit of rock climbing and some yoga, so I was probably on target for Sunday. Today I need to do Power Yoga for Stamina, my 10-minute Pilates add-on to that, and an hour and 15 minute bike ride.

Process-wise, I really REALLY need to increase my strength work. Rock climbing was a bit of a disaster. In part, when I can't get up a climb, it's a failure of courage. I've had a lot of those lately. But in part if was a failure of strength, particularly upper body and core strength. Crap. Core work is NOT my favorite, but I suppose the only place to go from here is up!