January 27th - More early morning reflection Good(ungodly hour of the)morning again Journal, Well it's 5:30am and I didn't want to be awake now, but the neighbours had an all night party.  They really are complete wankers (for a bunch of reasons that would be tedious for me to explain). I'm not sure if you knew, but I do two weigh-ins a week.  One on Tuesday night with WW, the other on Friday just on my home scales.  I'm keeping the Friday one, because I started my good eating on a Friday so it gives me a better indication of the total amount of weight I have lost.  And, DJ, as of yesterday I have lost a total of 5.5 kgs in two weeks!  Now I am very happy about that.  In fact, that means I have lost a total of 25% of the weight that I want to lose.  I expect that the rest won't drop off quite as quickly, but I'm very happy to have made such a good start. More reflections on my motivation - I still seem to be going strong with my food choices.  I even had McDonald's last Tuesday night, but with only having half my fries, and eating a Junior Burger and a diet coke, it was only 7.5 points which was pretty reasonable.  It fitted well into my points and fat/cal budget so I am happy with that.  I also ate out for lunch on Thursday, and although I can't say for sure how everything was cooked, I certainly chose a relatively low fat/cal item on the menu, and then only ate about half of the meat and rice in order to not blow things out.  I had a marinated and grilled chicken breast, with asian veges and some rice.  It all tasted nice, and I couldn't detect much fat when I was eating.  My palate is quite sensitised to the taste and feeling of fat now. So, don't know exactly why I am still feeling very motivated but I am.  It's now Day 27 of me not eating any bar chocolate and I've not been tempted once.  Every now and again I think about how nice chocolate would taste, but it's not enough to make me actually choose to eat it. Flopsy is going really well too.  He has joined me in making conscious choices about his eating and has dropped some weight.  He has decided on a goal weight of 85 and weighs 98 at the moment.  He's a solid guy, so whether he will make 85 or not is perhaps unclear at this stage.  We were both talking about the fact that it will become much clearer when we are closer to our goal weights about where our bodies want to even out their weight.  As long as we are eating healthy and doing a bit of exercise, our bodies should choose a weight that is right.  Again, I think it's important to reiterate that while scales are helpful, they shouldn't become a religious shrine that determines happiness. <<Back     Home    Next>>