It seems certain parts of life just are going to fall under the try hard - give up cycle. And weight loss is one of those for me. I'm almost always in one state or the other, either gaining ground or losing ground -- or should that be the other way around? And of course I always try to understand why. Who knows. I can name any numer of reasons but none of them puts me some place other than one of the two states, so onward I plod. On many days, plodding only keeps me from gaining weight/losing ground. And that's rather boring, tiring and annoying. Ice cream, however ...