I think one of the main differences between this weight loss attempt and previous ones is that I tell myself that every single thing that I eat counts. On other occasions, I sometimes, not all the time, but enough to know I did it, would let small extras slide. If I knew that I was going to go just a little over, I wouldn't always adapt what I was eating. This time around, though I have still had days when I've gone over the allowance, if I see it coming, I will genuinely try to avoid it. Example? All this weekend I had a packet of those Millions sweets in my bag. I bought them on Friday. I still haven't eaten them because I just haven't had 270 cals to spare. Previously I would sometimes have told myself that 270 cals isn't a big deal and would have just eaten them. I'm really going to try to keep cultivating my current attitude. It's much more likely to succeed. Today I even managed to only have a single portion of Options Hot Chocolate. If I'd had two portions it would only have been a few cals over, but I held back and stayed within my allowance. And I weighed out my chicken breast. I weigh as much as I can when I cook, in order to stay on track. Yay me!
Time is something I've been thinking of. Sounds very existential, doesn't it? I just mean that it passes. Eventually. I mean, nearly two months ago I decided to give weight loss yet another go. I was massively overweight and had a huge amount of work ahead. It's so tempting to think, "Why bother? I'm never gonna get there." But I got started, and in the blink of an eye, I'm almost two months, and two stone, down the line. It passes. It's just remembering that as each day seems to crawl by. Remembering that here I am, at the end of a fifty day streak of eating well, when it originally felt as if a week took forever to pass.
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