Day 48

"Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal--a commitment to excellence--that will enable you to attain the success you seek."*

Unrelenting. Not letting up or weakening your vigor or pace. Constant, hard, stern. Not softening. I know you desire to lose weight and wanting so badly to finally do it motivates you to follow this plan, or that plan, or any plan but, wanting to lose weight is not enough. It's a start, but it's not enough. Losing weight is work. Not back breaking-lugging-concrete-blocks-in-a-wheel-barrow-up-a-hill kind of work, but mental work, calculating work, rethinking, changing life style, sacrificing kind of work. You must be relentless when approaching your weight loss. Persistent. Tenacious. Single minded. Losing weight doesn't end until it ends and then it really doesn't end, does it? You can't take your eye off the ball. Even after you've dropped eighty sticks of butter, you still must stay committed to the goal. Only then the goal will change, instead of taking off the weight, the goal will be keeping off the weight.
If, after 90 days of walking your butt off, counting the calories in every Altoid and balancing your ledger at each and every meal, you decide to take a break, what will inevitably happen? Slowly, oh so slowly, the weight will creep back on. Don't let up, don't weaken, be tireless in meeting your goal each day, one day at a time. It's simple: eat until you reach 1500 calories and walk for 45 minutes. We're more than half way there.
Day 48 Calorie Count: 1390 (which included 1 slice of Libby's pumpkin pie w/2 blasts of Reddi Whip) and 49:46:15 minutes of walking

*Mario Andretti