The last thing I want is to backslide on weight control, but that is the easiest thing in the world to do.  Weight control is a long term strategy.   First, you imagine yourself as a new person.  This new you values controlling their body’s weight more than just about anything.  The new you is almost obsessed with this goal and has it near the top of their mind all the time.  As Terry Pratchett might say, nobody is naturally thin, but when you wake up in the morning, it is weight control that is your alarm clock.  It’s the first thing you think of when you wake up and the last thing at night.  When you eat, you hardly finish before you rush to your journal to write down what it was.  Sometimes, I write down the meal before I even eat it, but wait to fill in the calorie count until I am done, haha.  

Backsliding is easy because the old you is still in your brain, and maybe you have years of experience thinking and acting like the old you.  Lose concentration for a while and you will go back to the old way.  A month of not paying much attention might cost you 10 pounds.  You can’t lose sight of why you are doing all this.  The new you knows the answer to that and you should listen.