On making a committment

I promised some good news today and I absolutely plan on delivering.  Im down to 179.2 lbs.  From 181.6, or a loss of 2 lbs.  So yay - early indication is that plan get-weight-under-control is working.

This plan?  Its going to take commitment.  Three times a week visiting the diet/nutrition center.  Daily food journaling (at least the journal book they give you is cute).  Planning your food in advance so that you get the right balance of everything in the right serving sizes.  Carrying water. Buying the right food to be able to plan.  Learning what is and isn't part of the plan.  Well, to be fair everything is part of the plan but when you get 1 100 calorie freebie a day, asking yourself if it makes more sense to have a whole snack pack of chocolate covered pretzels or 1 timbit?

Does it help to have had an early success?  Yes.  Does signing a contract to do this thing help?  Sure, as does telling people and making yourself accountable to them.  Will there be bad days where I don't want to do this?  absolutely.

The same thing happens with walking, exercise and fibro.  There are days where moving feels beyond me - so I tell myself to walk to the front lobby.  Its down stairs so then it feels hard to choose to walk back up, so I walk to the end of the block.  Now theres a hill behind me to go back home, so I walk down to the main street, and so on and so forth until I've walked to the bus depot to get to school. 

Losing weight is going to mean making myself have a system like that - where I take one baby step at a time.

Today's baby step was learning an important lesson in flexibility.  Surprise - grocery day was now moved to this morning.  Ok, I can roll with that - lets just stop at the diet center on the way.  Go out, do groceries, Jussi is starving and doesn't want to wait for food.  So I checked what I had said I was going to have for lunch (a starch, a protein, a veggie serving, a fat), calculated who made something that would fit into those rules and off we went to Pita Pit.  It wasn't the meal I had planned out, and it was the burger we would have normally gotten but it did work.

Take life one victory at a time.