Another week, another pound

Nov 19, 2017

Life is a constant cycle of ups and downs, and losing weight is no exception.  I’ve been watching what I eat and moving more over the last 7 weeks.  By now I’ve usually gotten discouraged, hungry, and tired of eggs and chicken, but to my relief that’s not the case.  

I went to a Dickens Festival over the weekend to kick off the Christmas season.  There was cookies, cup cakes, brownies, hot chocolate, cheese cake and all sorts of sugar filled carbohydrates to temp even the most diligent of dieters.  My husband asked me if I was going to eat any of the items.  I told him that I knew with the holidays coming, there would be desserts everywhere I looked, so I was going to have to make an effort to pick what I really wanted and to be strong enough to disregard the rest.  He and I picked out a chocolate brownie with caramel and pecans.  I took one bite, chewed it very slowly savoring the flavors and making it last as long as possible.  I then handed the brownie to my husband and told him I had all I wanted.  As the after taste lingered, I realized that I had become sensitive to the amount of sugar that one bite had.  I’ve avoided sugar for 7 weeks now, that large amount of sugar doesn’t taste very good any more.  This give me hope that I’ll be able to resist the sweets during the holidays, and not get addicted to them again.  

My constant circle of life seems to be still going up and I’m encouraged that I’ll have another strong week even with Thanksgiving being celebrated. 

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