I was afraid to get on the scale this morning because it has been a busy week with a couple days of travel.  Overall, I have been pretty good at sticking to the plan eating a lot of healthy food including fruits and vegetables except for the two days I was traveling.  I only exercised two times in the last five days since my last weigh-in - 50 minutes of rowing in total.  But, I did do a lot of outdoor walking while traveling in the city of Phildelphia and also yesterday spent a lot of time walking around outside now that the weather is finally getting better.  Overall I have definitely eaten much smaller portions in the last week than before I was on the plan, and I have made much better conscious choices.  So I am staying with the plan of being practical and slowly losing the weight.  As long as the trend is downward I am going to view this all as highly successful!