June 2020
Last few weeks I have been so busy with some changes in my life I’ve had no time for exercise of any kind. Too busy running around sorting other stuff. The latest developments have also made it difficult to monitor the food intake – which means monitoring the weight was going to be a problem. The first couple of weeks of my new world, any idea of food monitoring and sticking to any kind of food regime totally felt out of the window.
However, I’ve not spend the better part of last year working so hard and losing all that weight only to gain it back. So as soon as I was able to take a breather in the latest venture I re-focused my attention on my food. Not exercise – just food. Exercise was going to be a no go – because between work and then spending my days on painting and decorating, there was simply no time for anything else. Any thoughts of losing more weight to get to my next target goal also fell out of the window. It was going to be a challenge just maintaining my current weight.
It turns, because I was so good with my food over the last 12 months now, and I have managed to develop something of a habit – cemented in my head what foods were ok and which ones to avoid, maintaining my new weight didn’t turn into as much of a chore as I expected. My daily weigh-ins help tremendously. I will not advocate these for everyone – it is simply what works for me.
I have to admit that some years back, my daily weigh-ins became a nasty compulsion that wasn’t doing my mental health any good. It was an obsessive behaviour, driving bad attitude and unhappy feelings and thoughts. These days, my daily weigh-ins serve a different purpose – they inform my ideas for daily meals. I have by now, long come to accept that the scales will move up and down, sometimes by ridiculous numbers – but it no longer bothers me. I know understand that there are about 101 reasons for these changes.
It is the bigger picture that one should focus on – the trend that the scales are setting over a period of time – in my case I think about it in 2 week chunks. If over a period of 2 weeks my weight has been creeping up steadily – then I know I need to fix exercise and food. If it’s stayed the same – then I have no problem and carry on as it. If it’s going down – well, that’s a party, but it’s not a disaster if “them scales” haven’t moved down.
Right, where was I? Oh yes – trying to keep my new weight. So yes, my now almost ‘habit’ food regime, that still permits me biscuits, chocolates, bowls of creamy pasta – has helped to maintain my new weight, through some very busy, non-exercise weeks recently.
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