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I wish I could explain why it's so easy to lose good habits, even when you've been doing them for months and think they have become your lifestyle.

For months, I walked every day. I saw it as part of my routine and a day really felt incomplete without it. As a result, I got my weight down lower than it had been in more than 20 years and I felt wonderful.

I did my best to maintain the routine after moving here to Georgia, but I have not been good about it. I weighed about 182 pounds when I got here in mid November, but now I'm in the low 200s -- probably about 205 -- and except for a pair of shorts I'm wearing pretty much every day, my clothes don't fit me.

I wasn't going to put that in print. I had vowed never to weigh over 200 pounds again, and it fills me with a sense of shame to have to admit it. But I figure putting it out there for the world to see is the only way I'm going to be able to force myself to address the problem.

So, I walked today.

Not a great walk. Not the eight or nine miles I was doing before I got the infection in my toe. But I went out and walked for an hour -- three miles on the loop.  It's supposed to rain tomorrow, but I'll either walk outside or go to the community center and walk on the treadmill. It's just a question of continuing to put one foot in front of the other until I get back into the routine I was in last fall in California.

Eat less, exercise more.

Weigh less, feel better.