Fighting the demons

I had one of those moments today actually. The last two months have been a total bust for me as far as weight loss goes, but I finally started logging my calories a few days ago again, and it's been rough. Every once in a while I think that I may as well just stop trying, after all, I'm better than I was a year ago. Those times really get me when I make a bad food choice early in the day, I was saying, ah well, today's shot, I'll just quit logging and try again tomorrow. I almost did that today when I ate an entire giant hersheys bar, not the king size, but the one that's like, 3 times bigger. Instead, I thought on it, logged the points, and then drank my dinner. Had a small snack later, and only went over by 36 calories! Holy cow, it can be done! If only I had continued to log on those other days, maybe I would have had success and actually seen the numbers go down. I'm going to try to remind myself of that everytime I think I've screwed it up by making a poor choice, and not give up, because I actually got closer to my calories today than I have when I save a bunch of calories for the evening so I can snack. Anyway, don't know if that was any help, my brain is already shutting down for the night, not my best time for insightful writing

I read a great book that teaches you how to retrain yourself to deal with the doubts/thoughts that can impede your weight-loss effort's. It's called "The Beck Diet Solution: Train Your Brain to Think Like a Thin Person" - here's a link to the book on amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Beck-Diet-Solution-Train-Person/dp/0848731735

Despite the use of the word "Diet" in the title - it is NOT a diet book - it's a book on how to avoid the common pitfalls of trying to lose weight, and works with any nutrition/exercise plan. It actually has a 6 week plan with daily goals/steps. It's based in cognitive therapy, which the author is trained in. I didn't follow the whole thing, but definitely learned some stuff reading it and would recommend it to anyone trying to improve their health/life by losing weight.

I found it at my local library - for those who can't afford to buy it or wouldn't want to buy it without checking it out first, I'd recommend looking at your libraries.

The "I already ate this sweet, so I might as well eat ALL of the sweets" mentality is the worst! Then it turns into "I went way over my calories today, even working out won't make a dent, so I won't workout". Pretty soon it becomes "I've gained back 10 pounds, I can't do this, I may as well quit." One thing leads to another if you let it.