The daily report is where I talk about my daily experiences trying to live the weight control lifestyle. Every day is its own new day: yesterday’s mistakes don’t carry over or become today’s problem. I can’t eat less today so that I can eat more tomorrow. Each day stands alone.
Which can make things tricky. Yesterday I had a bad diet day and overate after dinner. I used to do that every day, but it is unusual now. In the days when my body’s weight wasn’t that important to me, I wouldn’t have even noticed that I did it. Now I count my calories and stick to regular meals. That’s all in service of my desire to be in control of my body’s weight.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – tea (80)
- 80 calories
Lunch – tea (80);
- 80 calories
Dinner – Spanish tortilla (500); 1T mayonnaise (100)
- 600 calories
Snacking – not today
- 0 calories
Total for the day: 760 calories (limit 1700)
Recovery
I don’t punish myself for overeating: what’s done is done, and also I want recovery to be easy. Today I was willing to eat my daily target of 1700 calories, even though I had about 1200 calories last night after dinner. It’s a new day, so the calorie clock resets.
However, as you can imagine I wasn’t very hungry for most of the day. I had a relatively big dinner today (600 calories) because I started to feel hungry again. I wasn’t sure I would! But it feels restrictive if you tell yourself “No, you can’t eat today because you ate so much yesterday.” I gave myself permission to eat what I needed today, and paid a lot of attention to my physical need, today.
It’s amazing that I can still switch between eating only when I am physically hungry – my new weight control method – and eating for non physical (emotional) reasons. Today I paid strict attention to whether I was physically hungry. Yesterday, I didn’t do that. My eating yesterday had nothing to do with physical hunger, and I can admit that. Stress and emotion affect us in strange ways and I took the easy way out last night.
I have allowed bad diet days before. The nice thing about resetting each day is that each day is another chance to do it right. Next week is a chance to do things right and have a perfect week. This week may be shot, though.
-The Doctor