20190808 Daily report

Keeping a food journal is one part of the two-part weight control mechanism.  The other part is weighing yourself regularly.  You could say, “to control your weight, regulate your food intake and weigh yourself regularly.”  “Weight yourself regular” isn’t good grammar but sounds good.  

I’ve found that paying careful attention to what you are eating almost carries with it a command to set a limit.  If you are counting the calories in your food, it follows that you are happier with a target number.  How many calories is the right amount? 

People who stay thin their whole lives have figured this out.  They have a system, though it varies from person to person.  They keep track of their weight and are careful to eat more or less depending on their weight.  You could say they are obsessed with being thin and make it a high priority in their lives.  

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My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – tea with half and half (80)

  • 80 calories

Lunch – tea with half and half (80) 

  • 80 calories 

Dinner – packet of beef jerky (90); 1 piece of ham and 3 pieces of chicken breast (100)

  • 190 calories

Total for the day: 350 calories (limit 1800)

Listen to yourself

Mark Twain wrote that if your appetite doesn’t call you vigorously, with a shout, it is best to wait until it does, before you eat.  He was saying that if he overate, he wouldn’t be hungry for his next meal and wouldn’t enjoy it.  He wrote a short story about people whose appetites were fickle, apparently it was a common problem even then.  

For me, there are strict rules governing my eating behavior (not always followed) and governing my recovery following a bad diet day.  I cannot punish myself or it will destroy my ability to recover and my motivation for losing weight in the first place.  My system relies on convincing myself with love and attention, to eat less.  Punishment isn’t in it.  Losing weight for me is a fulfilling and satisfying exercise.  

I had a bad day yesterday – read the post.  Today is a new day, but I couldn’t pretend I felt even a little hungry at breakfast or lunch.  I felt my first stirring of hunger today at about 7PM and ate some jerky and ham and chicken because that is satisfying even in small amounts.  My goal wasn’t to punish myself but to listen carefully and meet my own needs.  I had tea for breakfast and lunch.  I didn’t even really want that but thought I should, that it might help get my digestion moving again.  

What effect does this have on my weight loss?  I don’t know for sure, but in the past having a bingey day, even if the calories for the week worked out, don’t result in much weight lost that week.  It’s like it takes a few days to get my system back in order.  That’s a bit frustrating, but I generally had a good week otherwise and felt satisfied and happy.  I don’t feel cheated, in other words.  Living this new lifestyle, there’s not a feeling that I am starving myself or using a lot of willpower to keep myself on target (though it seems the forces inside me are carefully balanced and can occasionally tip me over).  

I have learned I need to keep myself in good condition to make weight control work consistently.  That means sleep, on top of all the listening and planning I do to keep myself happy.  Tomorrow is a new day, but hopefully I will wake up hungry and have a normal new day.  We can hope!  

-The Doctor

20190807 Daily report

Come what may, the daily report is a commitment to myself and my new lifestyle.  Actually, my food journal is the underlying commitment.  But the daily report is me thinking about it and facing up to the world I am trying to create.  A world that has a thinner Doctor in it.  I will keep the food journal and I will weigh myself every week.  That gives me control.  But it is nothing without the underlying decision to create a new me living the new life.  

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My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 2 eggs (80); 1 ounce Velveeta (70); one slice of Pane Torano bread (140)

  • 370 calories

Lunch – Half of a Pizza CS (400?); 3x Kentucky Legend ham slices (33)

  • 500 calories 

Dinner – Red lentil curry (340); 5 ounces cooked rice (160)

  • 500 calories

Mostly late night extras– tea with half and half (160); cookies (400); ice cream (430); granola bar (100); apple breakfast bar (100); chocolate (500); bread and hummus (200); Cheerios and milk (300)

  • 2000 calories

Total for the day: 3430 calories (limit 1800)

That's going to cost me

I’m not sure why I lost control tonight and ate so much after dinner.  I am not myself, I have felt totally drained of energy all afternoon and evening.  That’s part of it, I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night.  That was a mistake, I don’t react well to that. 

Lunch was also a bit disappointing, though breakfast was nice.  I couldn’t tell how many calories were in my lunch pizza (restaurant) so I had to guess how much to eat and how many calories it had.  It was OK but wasn’t really satisfying to eat half of it.  

Anyway, I knew I wasn’t happy about lunch, but I thought some cookies would make up for it,and I had a nice dinner planned – last of the lentil curry.  And then I waited too long to eat.  Anyway, the combination – lack of sleep, lack of energy and will, disappointment over lunch, frustration over the lack of energy, and waiting too long to eat…..I have to learn better to avoid all that.  So far, I have had trouble with my diet when:

  • Cold
  • Sleepy or tired
  • Sick
  • Frustrated or upset (usually about meals not going well)
  • Too hungry (letting myself go too long before having a meal)

Any combination of those is worse.  I have slowly learned over these last several months that I can’t let myself get too hungry.  That tripped me up several times.  I even started carrying packs of beef jerky in the car and my bag, though I usually forgot about them or denied to myself that I needed them.  But it seems like letting myself get too tired and exhausted can be just as bad.  I can’t allow the combination.  

So it seems I must revive a commitment to sleep.  I must go to bed on time.  By itself, being tired doesn’t break my diet, but in combination with other things it is not good.  I can’t always control when other bad things will happen.  So I have to prevent tiredness being a factor.  Originally, my spreadsheet had a column for recording my sleep, but I stopped trying to do that about two months ago.  

As usual, this is a chance to learn and improve.  I am grateful that I have  the ability to think through these problems and make adjustments.  It’s important to keep yourself happy when you are asking a lot from yourself.  And losing 120 pounds is asking a lot.  It’s worth paying a little attention.  

-The Doctor

20190806 Daily report

It is very important, fundamental, to control how many calories you are eating, if you want to maintain your body’s weight or lose weight.  There are many ways to do that, and not all of them involve counting calories.  For most of us, we want decisions about what to eat and how much to take up very little time.  

I am taking a different approach.  Since I want lifelong weight control and don’t want to eat the same thing every day, I accept that I will have to spend some time to do it.  Time spent planning meals, cooking, measuring, packing leftovers, as well as budget planning and going shopping for food.  I have observed that people who are thin and stay thin, and fit and stay fit, are completely obsessed maniacs (in a good way).  They are always watching how much they are eating. 

The Doctor’s approach could be summed up as paying attention and calorie counting.  Pay attention to how much you are eating, have eaten, and have yet to eat today.  Learn yourself and plan out your meals.  Measure what you eat and drink.  I accept all this as the trade off for getting thin and staying thin.  What would you trade for that?  

Only eat foods you love. No exceptions.

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – roasted chicken breast half (100); rice (400); Italian bread (140); and cheese (60)

  • 700 calories

Lunch – Twix ice cream bar (160); oatmeal cookie (50); Kentucky Legend ham (200); Italian bread (150)

  • 560 calories 

Dinner – 10.4 oz red lentil curry (290); 4oz cooked rice (130) 

  • 420 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); Perdue shortcut chicken (80); hummus (70)

  • 230 calories

Total for the day: 1910 calories (limit 1800 + 500 bonus from swimming, total 2300)

Time well spent

Why would you spend all this time and effort keeping up with your weight?  Aha, luckily for you, the Doctor has come up with an enabling lifestyle that is attractive, so one wants to stay with it.  This lifestyle means making a permanent change to the way you live and elevating the value of being thin to the top of your morality, or moral hierarchy.  Then you start to see everything through that moral lens and everything changes for you. 

What is the attraction?  It’s that you have to pay a lot of attention to yourself and aim at pleasing yourself.  You want your body and subconscious impulses (mind) to be so happy with all the love you are showing yourself, that they are eager to do their part.  You learn what would make you happy to stay on a restricted calorie diet and you do it.  I have a system of rewards.  I feed myself (measured amounts of) what I want, and in exchange my body and subconscious are satisfied with that.  When I achieve a goal or milestone, I reward myself with a special food.  If the way you look at food has truly been transformed, then you don’t have to worry about using food as a reward being unhealthy mentally.  In the right mind frame, it makes perfect sense and I have lost 67 pounds that way.  So far.  53 to go.  

Showering yourself with positive attention, catering to your own desires for favorite foods, and carefully rewarding yourself with treats for each ahievement is a very attractive way to live.  You get enormous satisfaction from preparing yourself for a favorite meal.  You actually don’t want t overeat at the previous meal, or snack, so as not to reduce your enjoyment of your favorite.  Food always tastes better when you are hungry; when it is your favorite food and you have been anticipating it all day, it really multiplies your enjoyment and your sense of fulfillment aftewards.  

Learn yourself and you can achieve weight loss and weight control.  But you will have to accept the price and pay it.  Find a way to make paying part of the enjoyable experience! 

-The Doctor

20190805 Daily report

The daily report is a chance for me to think about the mechanism I am using to control my body’s weight.  (1) Regulate food intake and (2) weigh yourself regularly.  (I like that there is regulation and the beginning of the first axiom and regularity at the end of the second one.  I might trademark that.)  The important questions are: why do these things and how to gain the ability to do them?

Why is easy.  I want to be in control of my body’s weight.  I don’t want to diet, or get thinner, etc.  Those are all temporary.  They are ways of temporarily restraining yourself until you reach weight XX, or else give up.  You don’t make any permanent changes to yourself or your life.  In the worst case, you may gain all the weight back and more besides.  So control is the answer.  Axioms 1 and 2 give that control.  

How to lose weight: feed yourself with loving care

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 2oz meatloaf (150); half a sandwich wrap (45); french fries and carrot and cucumber salad with dill (50)

  • 250 calories

Lunch – 2oz meatloaf (150); half a sandwich wrap (45); french fries and carrot and cucumber salad with dill (100)

  • 300 calories 

Dinner – Big Mac (450)

  • 540 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); cookies (250); pretzels (200)

  • 530 calories

Total for the day: 1620 calories (limit 1800)

A shorty

I did a lot of traveling today, so I only will write a bit.

To successfully control your weight, you have to change yourself permanently.  Your old life caused you to gain weight, and gain, and gain.  You can’t diet, lose weight, go back to your old life, and then expect to keep your diet weight?!?  So you have to put in the effort to create a new life that is worth living.  It has to be better than your old life and more rewarding.  Then, you are not very tempted to go back to the old way.  Your new weight control life will win, most of the time, and that is all that matters.  Losing weight and maintaining weight are about averages over a long term of years.  It took me 15 years to gain the last 50-70 pounds of my highest total (325).  

It’s pretty impressive that I gained weight at all during those years of not paying attention.  My metabolism was probably near 3300 calories per day for many years.  Now that I am paying attention and am happily satisfying myself with 1800 calories per day or less (most of the time), I sometimes wonder what it must be like to eat, say, 4000 calories per day.  I must have done it, but I wasn’t paying attention and didn’t notice.  Doing it on purpose, while paying attention, sounds kind of difficult.  Regularly eating, say, 3300 calories per day sounds strange to me now.  It seems like it would be a lot of food.  

That is a problem for the future.  Right now, I want to stay on top of my currrent average.  So far this week, that’s about 1933 calories per day, a bit high.  Time to pay some more attention!

-The Doctor

20190805 Daily report

Every day, I have committed to writing a food journal and keeping track of what I eat.  It’s not how I lived for many years, but during those many years I gained weight and was unable to lose it.  Now that I am keeping track, I find that the work is much more productive.  Keeping track is simple but requires a lot of paying attention.  Not just what you eat, but how much, and why you eat.  

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My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – tea with half and half (80)

  • 80 calories

Lunch – 2 x ham and cheese wraps (150)

  • 300 calories 

Dinner – meatloaf as pictured (150); cooked carrot (25); cucumber salad (25); oven roasted cauliflower (25); french fries (100)

  • 325 calories

Snacking – Nestle’s Li’l Drums chocolate cone (120); Sarris chocolate cherry cordial (65); oatmeal cookies (300)

  • 485 calories

Total for the day: 1190 calories (limit 1800)

Only the few

I was not hungry at all this morning.  Yesterday, I snacked a lot late in the evening and spent most of the day trying to recover.  My appetite only really returned at 10PM today!  Having a bad day like yesterday is bad for several reasons. 

First, clearly I wasn’t listening to myself and didn’t keep myself happy and satisfied.  So that has to be gone back over and figured out.  What should I have done differently? It was a difficult day; I was up at 4AM and that kind of screwed up my food schedule.  Then I stayed up until nearly midnight.  That wasn’t good for me either.  When I get that tired, I will often overeat.  Someone said once that calories can temporarily take the place of sleep.  

Second, you feel physically bad the next day.  I felt all bloated and heavy today.  It takes time for overeating to work it s way through your system.  I was sluggish and unambitious today and didn’t get much done.  My weight control diet is meant to enable a new and exciting life.  This wasn’t it!

Third, it messes up the next day’s eating.  My system of weight control relies on using hunger as a valuable signal that things are going well, and also as an intensifier for food as a sensory experience.  So really by overeating the day before, you are really making it difficult to get back into your desired system the next day.  

Fourth, you feel emotionally let down.  I don’t let myself feel self pity on this diet, so my feeling is more related to the first point – where did I fail in paying attention to myself and making sure I could stay focused on the positive?  Also, you tend to feel bad about overeating and angry with yourself.  The productive way to deal with that is to admit to yourself where the failure really is.  You probably took the easy way out, were lazy and didn’t plan well.  You demanded too much of yourself and then it fell apart a bit.  Time to pick up and figure it out, and try not to let it happen again.

Self knowledge is the only way to make this work, improve, and keep motivated.  If you let yourself, you will take the easy way out and quit trying to get your weight under control.  Learn why this happened.  Where did you fail?  Don’t blame your body.  It’s only responding to a failure of your conscious will.  It can be fixed!  So get that figured out and move on, with a new and improved knowledge of yourself.

-The Doctor

20190803 Saturday weigh-in

Every Saturday I weigh in – literally, on a scale.  I have no idea before I step on, what I will weigh.  Some people weigh themselves every day.  I do it once per week.  It is a commitment I have made as part of my new lifestyle.  I will weigh myself every week and monitor my weight for the rest of my life.  It’s the only way I will get in control of my body’s weight.  Last week, I gain ed a pound.  IT was always unlikely, I just didnt’ eat enough to gain anything.  I was probably ill and retaining water.  I felt a little better yesterday and today, how did I do this time?

Lowest number ever

I have been stuck at or above 260 for a few weeks.  I was starting to have doubts about what I was doing to lose weight.  But this is very, very positive.  IF I continue to feel healthy, I may lose more weight in the next week.  But since starting in January, I have lost:

Pounds!!
0

Halfway rut?

Since I achieved half of the 120 pound weight loss I want a month ago, I have been in a rut and it’s been uncertain what was going on with weight loss.  I am feeling like things are now a going bit harder than the first 60 pounds.  But now I have lost 7 more than 60!  Maybe this is a good sign and I will keep losing.  I will keep working away and see what I can achieve in the next week.  

Usually after I have been ill, the first full week I am better shows a very good weight loss in the 3 pound range.  That would be nice for next week.  I still kind of feel resentful about the weeks I lost while being ill.  There’s a “why did I bother dieting if it didn’t get me anywhere” feeling, as if I have sacrificed for nothing.

But if losing 120 pounds was easy, everyone would do it.  I am doing this new lifestyle partly to take control of my body.  As I worked this technique out, I learned this new lifestyle is attractive to me and makes me feel satisfied and fulfilled.  So I have reasons other than losing weight, to keep on it.  I am answering an important question: how much quality was missing from my life?  I didn’t realize that what I was doing before wasn’t satisfying or fulfilling, or was only cheaply so.  Now I’m after a deeper prize.  Where else is my life unsatisfying?  What else needs changing?  How about your life?  Let’s think about it.  

-The Doctor

20190802 Daily report

Every day, I keep a food journal.  Really, I write in it every time I eat, not just once at the end of the day.  I might spend an hour on my food journal any given day.  That’s because I have remade myself into a person who values being thin and in control of his body’s weight.  I didn’t care about that when I was gaining weight, in my old life.  Now I do.  Because I value that, I keep a food journal and I weigh myself every week.  That’s how I will lose weight and how I will maintain my weight, once I get wherever I am going…

Zero the scale, then 10.5 ounces of curry

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 2 x Cotsco bratwurst (280); quarter bread wrap (22.5), a little mustard and onion

  • 620 calories

Lunch – 5 ounces of cooked rice (160); 10.5 ounces of red lentil curry (290)

  • 450 calories 

Dinner – 6 x pizza slices (100)

  • 600 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); Snickers ice cream bar (180); pretzels (100)

  • 360 calories

Total for the day: 2030 calories (limit 1800 + 500 bonus from swimming, total 2300)

Early morning

I have an early day tomorrow.  However, I think I am starting to feel better.  Maybe my stomach problem is going away.  That would be nice!  I am blaming my lack of progress on illness, though I don’t know if that’s legitimate.  

Someone asked me yesterday how to deal with cravings at certain points during the day – like at night, after dinner.  First, I think that is important self knowledge that you should pay attention to.  Knowing you will be hungry at night, you can try changing things to keep yourself happy and avoid that kind of snacking. 

Recently, I tried having a small breakfast, then a larger lunch and dinner, with dessert planned for a couple of hours after dinner.  The anticipation of the dessert kept me from snacking, and I was happy enough with dessert (ice cream sandwich, the good ones from Blue Bunny, with chocolate ice cream and chocolate syrup in the center) that I didn’t want to eat afterwards.  For breakfast that same day, I had chocolate-covered tea cookies (Aldi) and yogurt.  I was happy until lunch even though breakfast was 280 calories.  Try something like that.  Give yourself something to look forward to at night, that you can plan on.  

Time for bed!  

-The Doctor

20190801 Daily report

There’s nothing more daily than a daily report!  Today I am in a bit of a rush, but I always justify writing a daily report.  My daily reports are where I keep track of issues and thoughts related to my weight control lifestyle.  It’s a lifestyle lived day by day, with each new day an opportunity to learn about myself and improve the quality of my life.  My weight control system requires a new lifestyle that is very appealing, plus the results are nice. 

Roasted chicken and rice! What did you have for lunch?

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – Chocolate tea cookies (140); yogurt (140); chips (50)

  • 330 calories

Lunch – half chicken breast (100);  10 ounces cooked rice with peas (400)

  • 500 calories 

Dinner – 6 x pizza slices (100)

  • 600 calories

Snacking – ice cream sandwich (190); pretzels (100)

  • 290 calories

Total for the day: 1720 calories (limit 1800)

Get well soon

I hoped to be all better by now, but I am still dealing with a low level stomach complaint.  Last week I “gained” a pound, which isn’t possible with the number of calories I ate, so I knew I was retaining fluid.  I don’t feel any better through today, so I am pretty sure Saturday will be an unreliable weight.  My calorie total has been right in the target zone (averaging 1850 calories per day), but I still don’t feel normal.  I’ll get on the scale Saturday but without any expectation I will see a true reflection of my weight.  

Interestingly, I have a pair of pants which are rather a close fit (tight).  I am using them as an independent measurement of my waist size.  They feel a bit looser than last week, but hen again, they may have stretched since I have worn them a few times.  My last pair of size 50 pants are definitely hard to wear now, they get all bunched up around the waist once I tighten a belt.  But it’s hard to get over the feeling that my body isn’t in top form and I will have to be patient.  

I did something different today – I tried a small breakfast, and a larger lunch and dinner with dessert.  So far, I don’t feel any desire to snack on anything, so it may be a success.  Self knowledge is the key!

-The Doctor

20190731 Daily report

The daily report is an opportunity to go over my daily food intake.  The idea is one of two principles I have committed to: 1. Watch what you eat and 2. Weigh yourself regularly.  These principles are how I will lose weight, become thin, and maintain my target weight afterwards.  

Wednesday reward

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – Yogurt (140); bratwurst wrap (310)

  • 450 calories

Lunch – Big Greek Cafe Wednesday $5 Gyro sandwich (600)

  • 600 calories 

Dinner – 9 ounces Circassian chicken (450); half wrap (50)

  • 500 calories

Snacking – 2 x tea with half and half (160); pretzels and hummus (100); calzone slice (100)

  • 360 calories

Total for the day: 1910 calories (limit 1800)

Hungry today

I was a good bit over my calorie target today.  I’m not sure why, but I had extra tea, then snacked around 4PM and again after dinner.  Maybe I’m still not completely over a recent illness.  I did everything right today food wise, including rewarding myself with a Big Greek Cafe Wednesday $5 Gyro sandwich.  

Maybe people don’t know about those sandwiches.  Gyro is a Greek sandwich with Turkish roots.  The meat is shaved in thin slices off of a loaf made of of pressed and spiced lamb and beef trimmings, which is rotated while it roasts, like in a rotisserie oven.  The idea is Turkish, but is popular throughout the Near East.  In Turkey the sandwich might be called a kebab (roasted meat) but in Greece it is called gyros.  Anyway, the roasted and shaved meat is piled on a toasted flat bread and then the whole thing is topped with tzatziki sauce (yogurt, cucumber, garlic, dill) and diced raw tomatoes and onions.  Fold it and eat it!  I like it a lot and look forward to eating it every week.  

The mystery of why thin people eat got a little clue today.  Let me explain.  One of the mysterious differences between people who stay thin and people who become more and more overweight (like me, up till recently) is the goal of eating seems to be different.  When I was gaining weight, my desire was to eat until I was completely full.  If you eat at every meal until you are stuffed, you will gain weight.  You’re never completely full for long, either.  Now that I am trying to lose weight (with some success), I have turned my focus to hunger.  I don’t want to be stuffed full for every meal, I want to be suitably hungry just in time for the next meal.  But what about people who stay thin through their lives?  What is their goal when they eat?  How can they tell when to stop?  

Being thin and staying that way takes constant effort.  I was watching a video today (where I got my clue) where a young couple were eating chips at a Mexican restaurant.  They were both quite thin.  The man commented that he was in danger of filling up on chips.  The woman’s comment was very interesting – she said that when the entrees finally came out, she would be able to eat about three bites before she would need a box for the rest.  So, that’s my clue.  I think she is saying that instead of stuffed full, she is attuned to the slightest hint that she is getting full.  Perhaps she has trained herself to notice how her stomach feels just at the moment of the transition from “enough” to “too much”.  Maybe the eating goal of a thin person is to eat Just Enough.  

I find that point (Just Enough Food) through calorie counting.  I can’t tell when I have had Just Enough just from how I feel, but maybe I can start paying attention to that feeling. This might be interesting!  How do you know when you he had enough?  What is your clue?  

-The Doctor

20190730 Daily report

My daily report is all about what I am doing every day, and why.  Every day, I regulate my food intake and keep a food journal.  That’s because of an important change I made to my moral compass. I decided that being thin and in control of my weight (which is more important) was the most important thing in my world (or at least in the top three).  Once I decided to dedicate myself to weight control, I was easily able to find ways to make that happen.  I wasn’t fighting against myself, unlike on all the other diets I tried.  

If you do it the other way around – try to force yourself to eat less or exercise more – you will run out of willpower.  To be a successful dieter in the long term, you have to change who you are and why you eat. 

Cheerful vegetable curry

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – Yogurt (140); bratwurst wrap (310)

  • 450 calories

Lunch – 2x Reese’s peanut butter cups (80); Snickers ice cream (180); 5oz Walnut chicken (250); 3/4 sandwich wrap (90)

  • 660 calories 

Dinner – 10 ounces red lentil curry (290); 5 ounces cooked Jasmine rice (160)

  • 450 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); pretzels (160)

  • 240 calories

Total for the day: 1800 calories (limit 1800 + 500 bonus from swimming, total 2300)

The Doctor of Things

Tonight I spent some time reading about people who have successfully lost 100+ pounds through dieting, and in some cases have kept thin afterwards (some people weren’t tracked long term).   There were some interesting commonalities.  Almost all of them were on some variation of the keto diet or the Atkins diet.  On top of that, they all seemed to be counting calories.  That’s too much complexity for me; I want simple rules, not two sets of rules.  

But this is beside the point.  There is a sameness to a lot of what you read about losing weight.  

What the Doctor provides you that no-one else does, are the instructions on making the mental changes necessary to become a new person who is capable of controlling your body’s weight.  The various accounts people give of their weight loss successes are all missing that component.  They tell you what to eat, how much to eat, but not why you would do any of those things, or how you would keep on doing them.  They don’t talk about how to bring yourself into alignment with all the different parts of your being, or how having your food under control can be rewarding and satisfying, and bring you deep feelings of contentment.  

At least for me, weight loss success and failure is all in your mind.  If you figure out why you are eating, what satisfies you, and how to place weight control at the center of your thoughts where it ought to be, then you can change all that.  You can become a person who is in control of their weight and whose goal in life is to become thin and stay thin.  After you have changed your mind and adopted some new thinking, then weight loss follows as a consequence.  Your mind and body look for ways to make it happen.  Make yourself into a weight loss machine in your mind and your body will follow.  

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” – Sun Tzu

I talk to a lot of people who are very determined not to change their thinking about food, eating, or anything else.  For them, losing weight will be a constant struggle, to be resented.  Starting a diet while not changing anything about yourself is tantamount to Sun Tzu’s defeated warrior.  To be victorious, first change who you are.  Change yourself into a weight loss machine.  

How?  Start here, but I will talk some more about it soon.

-The Doctor

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