Easier this time

30th May 2011 - 74.3kg
Tomorrow is the official weigh in but I felt like posting today. Both my husband and I have noticed that once we got back onto counting the kJ it seemed easier to stay below 5000 than it was before Christmas.

We were close to losing the old habits after about 6 months of working at it before Christmas then we said we would not count or be too careful over Christmas. Big mistake! After a few days we just fell back into our old eating habits of too much of the high kJ food snacks and too big meal servings. We have been reeling ourselves in for 3 months and this month we have toed the line again. Surprisingly, but it shouldn't be a surprise I guess, we have found it easier than last time to stay with the routine.

We must have formed some habit thinking and acting brain paths last year, like a small rut, that we seem to have fallen back into this time. We hope to dig that rut deeper this time so that special events don't pull us off the track.

We don't restrict the type of food we eat too much though we have agreed that tim tams and coffee are not suitable for breakfast and we can't have a double serve of ice cream and cake instead of the chicken and veg for lunch.
I do have pikelets and jam for breakfast because they contain egg and milk. I do have home made chips with tomato sauce for dinner as long as I have had meat and two colourful veges for lunch. So we massage the menu plan but stay within our agreed rules.

This week I lost a kg the day I was sick but 4 days later I still haven't put it back on so I figure I would have got here anyway.

Happy Life Journey
Val

Slowly , Slowly

75.5kg
I have been adjusting how much I eat gradually from maintaining to losing a bit now. I have been making my meals just a bit smaller over the last few weeks til I am now at a point where I am losing some rather than maintaining. Of course, I want to lose a kg a week but I just like my food too much. I am satisfied to lose a bit.