One of the things I want to do this year is lose weight. That’s one of those things I want to do every year, but don’t. So the question is, what is the trigger that will make it happen?
Dad’s heart attack wasn’t it, since I think I’ve gained weight since then. Actually, my blood sugar is more of a motivator. I’m one of those people who believe type 2 diabetes can be managed with diet and exercise. I did it once.
The problem is I respond to stress by eating. Not a sit down and gorge myself kind of eating, but a constantly grazing kind of eating. And a kind of don’t notice how much I’m eating kind of eating.
Diets don’t really appeal to me, but last Monday I did start to count calories again. 1800 a day. Ok, except for the two days I ate 2500. What’s a cookie here or there?
Except for those two days, I’ve been mostly good—including exercise. I was only going to weigh myself once a week, but I sneaked a peak over the weekend and it is not encouraging. Why can’t you cheat and lose weight too? Why can’t five good days count more than two bad ones?
I am taking some products that are supposed to help curb your appetite, but I’m not sure that is the problem. I’m not hungry. I just want to eat. And I don’t have the focus I need to change my lifestyle. Or the energy. In fact, I don’t want to change my lifestyle. I just want to change my life.
Or, put another way, I don’t want to lose weight.
I just don’t want to weigh as much.
Tonight I’ll see what difference one week can make. And next Monday I’ll see what difference two can make. And after a month or so I’ll see if it matters at all.
By then I’ll be fifty.
the daysman 