I've been at this diet long enough now that a lot of the milestones just pass me by without noticing them. On Monday I finished the fourth complete month of the diet. In the first couple months the milestones meant a lot more, as I hit each one they were an accomplishment as much because of my tendency to bail out on diets. Now that I'm in the home stretch of the diet (and down 40 pounds) the milestones are a little less exciting. In some ways the only milestone I'm looking at right now is when I finally cross 200K.
Of course tied into that is a few other targets and accomplishments I'd like to hit. Getting to 215 pounds means a 50 pound weight loss on the diet. I've got a physical coming up in two weeks and I'd like to be able to impress my doctor. I'm going on vacation in a couple of months and I'm looking forward to pictures of me as a "skinny" person (under a very loose definition of skinny of course). Sometime in the next couple weeks will also likely be my big shopping trip to buy new clothing, I'm really looking forward to that.
So the milestones of dates (4 months in), days of the diet (todays Day 125), or pounds lost during a week matter less to me but there's still some rewards of the diet I'm looking forward to. Plus there's also my new table whenever that arrives. You know, I think maybe this diet wasn't as crazy an idea as I thought. We'll have to give it another month and see.
Food today: egg and cheese sandwich for breakfast (300 calories), turkey sandwich on sourdough for lunch (500 calories), a small bag of chips and a few tootsie rolls for snacks (200 calories), chicken, rice and green beans for dinner (1000 calories). Exercise was an hour on an elliptical machine as the treadmills were all in use (750 calories).
Today's Results:
Daily Food Total: 2000
Exercise: 750
Points Earned: 1750
Total Points Earned: 164394
Points to go: 35606
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