At first, I took this as an opportunity. Now I could put into practice what I had been preaching for the last decade. Maintaining an ideal body weight was easy! Just eat the right food and exercise. I knew that loosing 2 pounds of week was the best way to keep the weight off. I thought loosing around 10 pounds would be good and dreamed that in 5 weeks, not only would my clothes fit better, I would have proved my point. So, I cut out the dessert each night and dreamed of starting an exercise program.
For a week I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner and went without my Ben and Jerry’s (except one night, and then I felt very guilty). Imagine my dismay when I got on the scale and not even lost a pound. I knew that my exercise program had not begun. But I believed that if lowered my food intake, I would loose weight. One more pint of Ben and Jerry’s before I set out on my diet again. I worked diligently on not eating dessert, but was still sadly lacking on the exercise part. That week I lost almost 2 pounds and was ecstatic. Until, the next week when on my continued plan I gained back a pound. Here I was at target week five, instead of being triumph; I was only dessert deprived. I had lost a total of 1 pound, not 10. I now believe that weight loss is like parenting. No matter how much book learning you have, you just don’t understand it until you have done it. Time to reevaluate my weight loss plan.
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