one day at a time...

I am not a follower of twelve-step programs. That is, I am not an advocate. But there is a thing or two in them that I find helpful. That "one day at a time" thing, for example. Start fresh every day.

I have been using dietpower and paying better attention to what I eat. I also went back to sparkpeople, which can be motivating. It is a community, and a lot of people like that about it. I don't care one way or another and tend to be bored by other people's accounts of what they ate and how much they exercised. Which is why I started this blog here, away from my other blogs. It's likely to bore me silly, never mind anyone else. The plus side of sparkpeople is that it is free, you can use it off and on, it contains a lot of helpful tools.

getting on

262 today. I think the water and not eating after eight are really good techniques. I am still eating too much but I would be eating even more.

Keeping the faith

262.5 today. I know that these first few days are a grace, that any pounds lost now are not indicative of the future. I am sticking with my goals but still eating too much. Should I set a goal for calories? I know I can make progress if I stay under or at 2000 calories a day, because I am tall and have a largish frame. Yet I resist setting that as a goal.

Is "goal" the right word? Perhaps I need to look that up.

Goals

I have learned the error of setting absolute goals. For example, of losing a set amount of weight by a specific date. Dietpower makes you set goals but they just help keep you on track and you don't have to pay attention.

Better to set goals that you can meet. Therefore, my first goal is to use dietpower at least six days out of every week. No, let's make that five days. That way, when I travel and am at restaurants with others I can let that day go if need be.

Goal number 2: get lots of water. At least eight glasses a day.

Goal number 3: don't eat after eight p.m. at least five days a week. Again, travel sometimes makes it harder to meet some goals so I built in some slack.

it begins

265 pounds. Frightening.

Another day, another blog

I have been posting in my arthritis blog for a while now. One comment I have made more than once is that the best thing I can do for my knees is to lose weight.

I post in that blog to keep track of my progress following Arthritis Rx. It helps me to note what I have done and what results I notice. I could, therefore, post about my success in weight loss there also. But I don't think that would be appropriate. Not everyone with arthritis has a weight problem, and posts about weight loss might soon outweigh (heh) the posts specifically about arthritis.

Thus this blog. Here, away from the rest of the world, I can post all about the really boring subject of weight loss. I for one get impatient with posts about weight loss written by others. I don't want to hear what they ate or how much they lost. Nevertheless, it will likely be useful to me - if nobody else - for me to record what I do about my weight here.

And so it will begin. Tomorrow I will return to my trusty friend, Dietpower.* I am not sure if I will weigh myself but probably I should.


* If you are interested in purchasing Dietpower, go to that link and enter my name - Judith Lautner - as a salesperson. You'll get five bucks off. But try it first! You can try it free.