Diet Diary October 30 2009

3 AM    I went to bed early last night (7 PM) after an exhausting day.  Now I’m up and having coffee at 3 AM and feeling great!

I would like to emphasize a point I have briefly touched on before.  I have decided that I really do not like the term “diet.”   It is really not just a diet.  It is a “life style change.”   I say this because the term diet implies that there  may be an end to it.  I don’t see it ever ending as if you stop controlling your caloric intake the weight is just going to start piling on again.  I find that the longer I stick with it the less tempting it is to go back to my old habits which I can only characterize as terrible!   I think my poor doctor gave up on me years ago.  I can’t say that I can blame him either.   I also think that if you have health concerns especially, that no matter how many times you fail you should not give up.  In 1998 I finally quit smoking after several hundred attempts.  It was the most difficult thing I ever did, but I finally did it!   You know what they say, “The spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak.”  I don’t know who first said it, but they were surely correct.

I Want to share a comment with you I received this morning.  It makes the effort of keeping this public diary worth while.

Comment:

“I’ve lost 10 lbs in 2 months just cutting out sugar in my coffee. I also don’t drink or eat too much bad foods.”

George Meade

Thanks George, great work!