So, hasn't it been a long time, eh?

Unfortunately the real world has intruded a great deal in the last few weeks and I have found myself without much time to do anything. You may want to check my progress but the quick version is that I went up a bit (300gm) then down a bit more (600gm)since the last journal entry, which is the idea on maintenance as far as I can work out.

A confession though. I haven't been tracking or eating as I would like to be lately. I don't know why this hasn't meant that I put weight back on, but I sure am glad. I guess looking at it from a bigger picture point of view, I'm still eating much better than I was before; I still don't eat chocolate, I still eat cereal every day for breakfast, and I'm not eating until I feel stuffed full or anything. However, I've certainly been eating some things that I hadn't been for the past few months, and not necessarily budgeting for them.

I guess I could talk about the excuses for all this. Moving house over a protracted period made it hard to cook. Being stressed with job interviews (oh and I did pretty badly and it freaked me out) is a great reason to eat stuff like cheezels, right? And last night Flopsy and I had to celebrate a year since I moved interstate so we could be together. But excuses are just excuses and they don't change the end result which is that I am far less focussed than I used to be (regardless of what the scales say).

I wondered if not keeping my journal contributed to my off-trackness. Certainly the fact that the scales have continued to be kind is reinforcing of the idea that I can eat less well - but hey it doesn't keep me as healthy and that's my central goal. Not making time to plan has also been a big one. And being at goal and maintenance stage (so not trying to lose weight anymore) has probably made me complacent.

So, how do I renew my commitment? I'm not going to make a grand statement about turning over a new (lettuce) leaf or anything - what a way to set yourself up for failure, I think. I'm just going to work on being 'mindful' again. What I mean by that is getting back to making conscious choices at each meal, not doing the auto-pilot thing. For a while my auto-pilot was pretty much all healthy choices, but lately there have been a good percentage which are less so. Oh, and of course the most obvious thing - I will track again throughout the day which I haven't been doing.

So, while it's not time to panic, it's a good time to review. Thanks for listening.