Day Four

Well, so far so good, as they say.

One of the things I had decided when I started this "journey" was that I was only going to weigh myself once a week - on Mondays.  I've done that in the past and it has worked well for me because when you weigh daily, or even multiple times a week, you can get a misperception of how you're doing.

For example, one day you may weigh yourself and you have a number to go by.  Let's say you weigh the next day and it shows you've lost 2 pounds.  You feel great and you might feel it's okay to take a little splurge, which defeats your purpose.

Or you may feel like you're starving yourself to death and get on the scale and have gained a pound or two.  You might question why you're torturing yourself like this and decide to binge eat, again, defeating your purpose.

So, for me, it works best if I only weigh once a week.

Only that's not what I've done this week so far.  In fact, I've weighed myself three times already and as of this morning it reflects that I've lost 3.5 pounds.  Maybe I have really lost that weight but maybe it's more water weight than anything else.  I can't lose my focus on the goal here.  So it's kind of encouraging but I don't want to jump ahead of myself here and lose focus.

Speaking of focus, I've done pretty well on eating and exercising.  Today is the first day I haven't gone out and walked the neighborhood yet (although the later it gets the less likely it will happen, just saying).

However, I had said I wanted to create a diet that was sustainable after I lost the weight.  After I wrote that I realized that how I'm approaching this is more of a juicing diet.  I'm eating solid foods too but mainly my diet has consisted of juiced fruits.  We're talking I was up at 3:00 a.m. this morning juicing fruits so that that could be my breakfast.  And it was delicious!

But as a long time sustainable thing, I need to be able to incorporate foods that bring a balance.  I've learned over the last few years that protein is important.  I don't eat meat (or dairy) so it can be challenging to get in the protein my body needs at times.

So I guess in addition to losing the weight, my goal would be to create a balanced diet that gives me everything I need (and even want) while maintaining a healthy weight (once I get there!).

But as I started the post, from the standpoint of how I'm doing - so far so good.  :)