Personal Prose Post
I’m cranky today. My stomach hurts, probably from all the different foods I’ve been eating. I don’t have much energy. Oh yes, I’ve lost three pounds in the past week, and I’ll continue with the eating plan. But I’m reminded that this is a real change in my eating, and it’s going to take a while until my body adjusts. I guess this is when many people quit a diet, when it gets hard. The enthusiasm for cooking new foods is over and I want to get back to my life, where I know what to eat and don’t have to consult a daily list of menus. But I made a commitment to do this for 21 days, and I resolved to have a massage when I’ve lost another 1.5 pounds. Ooh, I can feel that massage oil being massaged into my tired muscles!
Fortunately, we get a day a week “off” every week from the diet, when we can eat anything we want. That’s today. When I heard about that I thought “Oh, no, not me. I will continue on as hard as I can. I won’t need any days off.” But I do. Today I had my lovely raisin bran for breakfast instead of steamed veggies and an egg. It was heavenly! And after the appropriate lunch (soup, salad, and salmon), I blissfully enjoyed two — count ‘em, two — small pieces of dark chocolate. Funny, it was all the rebellion I needed. We are going out to dinner tonight, and I’m considering having a glass of chardonnay. But I’ll decide at the time, and I suspect I’ll eat lightly and appropriately. After all, I really do like my new way of eating. But I’m eagerly awaiting having someone serve me food instead of having to cook it myself.
By the way, does anybody reading this have comments for me? Have you succeeded in losing weight on a diet? What helped? What got you through the process? If you failed, have you considered what went wrong? Any suggestions for me?
Posted in Writing | 1 Comment » | January 13th, 2010
Hope you are feeling better, Diane. There is some wisdom in your body, so if you continue to feel yucky, there may be something there to adjust. Years ago, when I was grieving my mother’s cancer and death I put on forty pounds! I was able to take it off over a two year period by following the nutritional advice found in Laurel’s Kitchen cookbook. It is about establishing a whole new way of eating. I took it off, and it was worth the effort. After that, I set a ‘low and high range’ of ten pounds as my weight goal. When I get to the top of it, I start to take it off.