My weight control-focused lifestyle is lived one day at a time. Almost, one meal at a time. But really, every day is a new day. My calorie count is for the day. My food journal is set up for daily entries. It is not always easy to live while focused on high quality experience, since I am asking a lot of myself. There is a lot of effort, planning, and execution of plans. I am taking it one day at a time, in more ways than one. One day at a time is something ex-alcoholics or ex-smokers might say in group meetings. But yes, it is one day at a time. It is not easy. But there are compensations.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – 2x Spanish tortilla (166); whole wheat wrap (110); tsp mayonnaise (30)
- 470 calories
Lunch – steak and cheese sandwich (500)
- 500 calories
Dinner – chicken breast (220); 10 ounces rice casserole and peas (230)
- 450 calories
Snacking – tea with half and half (120); 3 pieces candy (150);
- 270 calories
Total for the day: 1690 calories (limit 1800)
Halloween!
The Doctor is taking tonight off in honor of the holiday (and because there is a lot to do tonight: costumes, trick or treating, candy sorting, candy eating…).
I will say: I have been spending time in my office recently. It’s amazing how supportive people are about weight loss, but it’s always people who are thin themselves who comment and give encouragement. I recognize now that people who are thin work at it constantly with various degrees of success. So they recognize that you are working at it too. Maybe they appreciate it.
But wanting to be thinner is not the same as making the mental changes necessary to bring it about. Even working at it does not guarantee any success, as I found out over the years. You have to have a good system that you like and are willing to live out. That means promoting new values to the top of your hierarchy of rules you live by. Changing your mind is actually the tricky part.
Do it and your body will follow. That part will take time.
-The Doctor