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Thursday, October 29, 2026Oct 29

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Pierce: A good loss is good motivation

If the scales at Jenny Craig were a boat, the counselors and I would all be seasick. I’ve rocked up and down for the last several weigh-ins: up 3 pounds, down 1, up 2, down 1, down one-half, down .4, and then this week down 3.5.

I am still trying to lose the 9 pounds I put back on in my prednisone-fueled eating frenzy at the first of this year. I’m finding that re-losing is much harder than the first-time loss.

I think that’s because when I first started this project for the Shape We’re In, I was in the zone: I stuck to the plan religiously and cut my social life to virtually nonexistent by not eating out or going to parties that would tempt me.

I got over that.

Now I’m still following the Jenny plan, but I’m not as strict about foods with which I “supplement” the plan.