Welcome to another half-size-me audio blog. I am your host, Heather, and this blog post is titled

The Best Five Pounds I Ever Gained. I have something I want to share with you. I have been the happiest

in regards to my eating and exercise in the last eight weeks than I have my entire life, and I gained

approximately five pounds in this entire process. I have not been extremely public about all the changes I've made because as with all things, I want to test them on myself before I mention them to anyone else. Sometimes it's difficult to be in the middle of your own journey, regardless of what phase you are in, being in the public eye. You all have been with me since shortly after hitting my

goal weight and so much has changed in that time and I can imagine it will only continue to change.

I felt extremely compelled to share with you what I've been going through because so many of you

contact me with questions regarding wanting to lose the last 10 pounds or you're not sure

about your personal weight loss goal and what it should be or you're struggling to lose the last 10 pounds, or you're not sure about your personal weight loss goal

and what it should be, or you're struggling to keep the scale at a certain weight.

I felt if I was open with my own struggles and what has been helping me, you may also be able

to find something that will benefit you.

Just as a recap, I started maintenance back in January of 2012.

I have struggled with the desire to lose more

weight since that point, and I have shared with you an audio blog number two, why I stopped

trying to lose the last 10 pounds, how I decided to end that. There was a great passage in a book

I just recently read called the obesity myth. The author was Paul Compos, and he states,

In Greek mythology, Sisyphus was condemned to roll a boulder to the top of a hill,

only to see it tumble immediately to the bottom over and over again for eternity.

The struggle to lose the last 10 pounds is a Sisyphian struggle, which is to say that it is an

absurd task in the essential sense of the word. I couldn't

agree more with that. Actually, when I read that, it just really clicked with me how absurd it really

was. Because I wasn't feeling good enough with my own body image and struggling with body

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