Daily Logging…more like Slogging

88olds wrote: »

Couple of thoughts.

But I was still overweight. And the things I had done to lose 65-70 lbs seemed to be useless getting lower. I finally had to reinvent my whole effort to get lower.

Make a plan. And make it a plan you will actually follow. Have you considered an official break from tracking? I don’t mean for the purpose of running amok. I mean for the purpose of finding out how you do without it for a predetermined period of time. You may find renewed appreciation.

Or can you pinpoint your objection to tracking. Is it the mechanics? Can you make it easier? I tracked with pen and paper. I found logging on the computer reminded me of work. I kept my food diary on the kitchen counter next to my food scale. After I learned the numbers for most of the stuff I eat my entries were just crude lists of what I ate with a number. If I put Subway lunch I knew it was a grilled chicken on wheat bread with light Mayo and baked chips. Don’t eat there anymore so I don’t recall the total but it was always the same.

Or are you pushing back against the calorie limit. You can take a break from that by calculating your current maintenance number and aiming for that for awhile. And where do you have your deficit set? 10 lbs to go you probably want to be at .5 lbs per week or maybe even less.

But the thing you likely don’t want to do is what you are currently doing which is breaking the process. Starting the day intending one thing but ending by doing something else is how life goes. But doing it every day undermines your process. Control the process and in the end you will control your weight.

Sometimes our process needs to be defended. If you can’t defend your plan as it now exists find a plan you can defend. Weight loss is just the byproduct of our plan. Keep trying. Weight loss is mostly about problem solving and persistence. Only way to fail is quit. Good luck.