Thanks to (most) everyone for the nice comments regarding my last post. It was actually something I wrote awhile ago and came across by accident. I thought I would re-post it.
I lost 5 pounds in May. I wrote everything I ate down in a journal and got the occasional exercise in at the gym. I gained it back in June when I stopped writing down what I was eating. 5 pounds is not really much when you are already considered obese, so I don't put much stock in a loss less than 10 pounds.
I can't say why I went off track in June. Events I suppose, they seem to dictate to me when I should be "on" and "off". For example, take July, The 4th is this Saturday and usually I would be inclined to procrastinate until after that date, which really means about 3 days later if there are enough leftovers. But then another event is on the horizon and I push my "start" date to that..and so on down the line. Pretty soon a decade has gone by and your ass has spread to unwanted proportions.
There are about 20 or so such dates in a year. Even if someone who needed to lose took those days "off", plus another 16 for good measure, that still leaves 329 days of healthy living, 90% of the year. I wish I could see it clearly like that all the time.
That makes sense to me, except that life is random and has no boundaries--so, maybe starting a new regime should happen at a random time.
Posted by: Margaret | July 02, 2009 at 21:30