Well, it’s only 2 days away from the full moon and today is my usual weigh in day. Not doing quite as well as I’d hoped. Here’s the list of excuses… crap weather occasionally so not always great opportunities to take Shelby for a walk at convenient times; crap health — husband brought home some evil, snotty lurgy from work. He had a couple of days off work because of it and I’ve been fighting it off for the last few days, swallowing lots of echinacea, garlic, zinc, vitamin C, mandarins, hot lemon and honey drinks etc. I think I’ve slowed it down but I still feel bleh with a scratchy, not-quite-sore throat and general malaise. Not good to exercise when feeling like that, as I’ve found from past experience, so I’ve been resting instead of working out. Still, I’ve managed to at least maintain my weight and not gain, so that’s a good thing. Even though my weight has stayed the same I’ve managed to lose 3 cm overall from my various body measurements, so that’s a tiny little victory. 
In spite of the health setback I have kept on track with my eating plan, so that’s probably the reason I’ve lost centimetres if not kilos. As far as my Lunation Plan is concerned:
Now the cycle culminates and the light of the Full Moon reveals the measure of success and failure of the waxing hemicycle. Up to now, the expanding activities of the cycle have been directed toward the ultimate fulfillment of your Lunation Plan. If the Full Moon reveals more failure than success, now is the time to re-examine your plan, to re-strategize and re-organize, perhaps on a reduced, less ambitious scale.
The Full Moon shows both fulfillment of the cycle’s potential on an organic or practical level and evidence of failure to actualize the potential released at the New Moon. Since both success and failure are inevitable in any cycle of activity, it is always a question of more or less rather than absolute either/or. As the cycle unfolds beyond the Full Moon, success and failure both become increasingly evident.
The full moon will be Sunday morning at 4:57am and after that point I can start focusing on loss of weight using the strategies put in place from the new moon onwards, whereas in the waxing stage leading up to the full moon I was concentrating on increase in activity and general well-being, hoping that weight loss would happen by default — which it has, but just not as much as I’d hoped. Still, ’tis all good. 
