Eat4Today

Just today, I’m not going to eat between meals and I’m not going to take seconds. And I’ll weigh myself & use the tools and guidance from The Hacker’s Diet to help me reach (and keep) my goal.

Labor day last year I had barely started this journey. I hadn’t shared my grand plan with anyone outside the family. And had hardly mentioned it to them. I had yet to add my mantra (I’m not eating between meals and I’m not taking seconds) to my public signature for forums, blogs and email messages. I hadn’t started posting public updates on my progress. And it certainly hadn’t occured to me that I would start a blog to discuss my goals and issues in such detail on a daily basis.

In fact last year at this time I’d hardly started to lose weight.

Everything’s different now. I’ve been working toward my weightloss goal for so long the pressing issue is trying to make my commitment new and fresh and vital. I know what needs to be done — I just don’t always want to do it anymore. (sigh) That’s not quite true, I want to do it — sometimes though I wish I could hire an assistant to take it over.

This sounds like I’m speaking in the poor, poor pitiful me, katiebird voice. But that isn’t what I’m trying to say at all. The thing is last year I faced all these same challenges — I’d been on a million diets in the past and my weight has always, always come back with a bonus. I had no idea going into this project just how successful I would be and in how many ways my life would change.

So as I sit here this morning feeling a little overwhelmed by how far I need to go, I’m remembering how far I’ve come.