How did I fall off the wagon so easily?

I love the quote from the remake of batman that Thomas Wayne tells a young Bruce, "And why do we fall, Bruce? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."  I thought of that quote as I did not come anywhere close to my goal of 280 by Easter. It might have even been an epic failure that I have not experienced in quite some time.

On easter morning i actually weighed 298 pounds.  Yes, I was 2 pounds away from 3 bills again and I cannot have that. So that sobering fact has made me just a little more motivated then I have been in a long time.  Specifically with my eating habits.  I have been largely ignoring my fitness pal and have been eating more then necessary in the evening.  So I have broadened my timeline and I am back to the basics.  My new, new goal is to be at 260 by mid august.  Again it is a pretty aggressive goal but that is OK I want to get this done and over with for good.

This morning I weighed in at 294 so at least my body knows which direction to go. Now my mind has to keep it going in that direction.

This lent was not all bad. I started my push-up routine at doing 37 push-ups to doing 155 this mornings. And I started my sit-up(crunch) routine at 92 and I completed 203 this morning. So there has definitely been some strength gain over the last 5 weeks.

It isn't a total reboot of my weight loss program but I am treating it like it is.  My current weight was 298 and I want to get to 260. Which means I have 38 pounds to go and the spring / summer seasons to do it in.