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Day 2 of 100 Days
Day 2 of 100 Days starting.
I weighed probably a bit more today than I did yesterday after returning from my three-day hike. The scale showed 236 and slightly more than that. So I wrote down 236 again. (I have a balance scale and when I'm clearly on a low-calorie diet, I don't move the indicator higher to see EXACTLY how much more I weigh, because that kind of think is demotivating – as long as I adhere to my low-calorie approach, the weight will come off.) Seems to me that a major problem with weight loss (at least in with me in this food-rich environment) is simple distractions. That is, I have changed my approaches and have given up what has worked well for me in the past. It's too easy to listen to advice from people – perhaps from a TV show – and then start on a new diet program. There's the story of the farmer whose sheep has been devastated by a wolf, and he sics the dog on the wolf's trail. So off goes the dog, and before an hour has passed, the dog is tiredly pursuing the wolf's trail when it comes across a rabbit trail that smells newer, and so the dog takes off on that track. By the end of the day, having switched prey many times, the dog ends up barking at a squirrel in a tree. Seems to me that it's just too easy to switch goals and wind up in a worthless pursuit. To help me maintain task focus I were numbers on my watchband and today I will put a "2" on my watchband to indicate that this is the second day. As the pounds come off, I will add the number of pounds lost to a second set of numbers below the first. (I remember 5 years or so ago when I first tried this approach – I started off at about 274 and nothing was working at all for me in getting the weight off – and I was talking to a neighbor about dieting and exercise. I noted that I had lost something like 30 pounds in 54 days, and he told me, "Not that we're counting!" and I said, "Oh, yes, I'm counting!" The watch numbers make it possible to do so.) I also have a weight graph and every morning after weighing, I add my morning weight number to that. It will trend downwards within the next couple of days. My calorie goal today is 1000 calories and I will exercise later this evening, in spite of my blisters from recent hiking. I hope everyone finds a program that works for her and him is able to stick with that program long enough to reach their health goals! Let's all be "good enough for long enough!" Yours, Caleb 236/190 |
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