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Well here I go again, re-starting my diet for the 1000th time in the last decade. That's a good name for it actually, "The Lost Decade". The period in my life from 25-35-ish years old where I've been too fat, too tired, too unwell, and in too much pain to do anything worthwhile with my life (except getting married and having kids of course!).
After failing so many diets, people in my life suggest that I should try something other than calorie counting as it's evidently not working for me. I mean, they have a point, though the problem isn't with the diet, it's with my self control. Calorie counting absolutely works, and compared to whatever fad diets come and go, CICO by far makes the most logical sense to me. It's Math! It's Science! It's... Python!
caloriesConsumed = 1600
caloriesBurned = 3000
if caloriesConsumed < caloriesBurned:
print("You have lost weight!")
Sorry for the nerdy programming joke. But as always, this journal isn't for you - it's for me. Bully for you if you get something out of it.
Anyways... the problem with CICO has always been my self control - my ability to stick to the diet, and that's the part I need to work hardest on. It's getting it through my thick skull that I fail every diet because I let hunger and desire cloud my better judgement. That's the hard part of dieting for me - fighting through all the bullshit I spin myself whenever life throws a little hardship my way.
Kind of a crap day at work? I'll use that to justify dropping in to KFC on the way home from work at 3pm. I'll log the "Regular Bacon & Cheese Zinger Burger Combo" in the app like a good boy, suffer a sugar-free PepsiMAX, and tell myself "this counts as dinner". But by 11pm I'm starving to death because I haven't eaten anything in 8 hours and can't get to sleep. Then the next excuse becomes, "You've got work in the morning - you NEED to sleep! Just eat something and start fresh tomorrow." By morning I've convinced myself that I may as well make the most of things since I've already screwed up my diet for the week, tell myself the always convincing lie that "I'll start fresh on Monday", and as easy as that, another diet meets its end.
Every so often, such as today, I feel extra motivated to start a diet. I'll open up a fresh new word document and jot down some rules, boundaries, and/or observations that I think will help keep my self control in check over the coming weeks. If I'm going the extra mile, I'll log onto this website and make a journal post too, because I know it helps me to lay everything down in black and white. Well here's the nonsense I've spun to help fuel my next diet. Do with it what you will:
- Set much smaller weight-loss goals - just 10kg at a time.
- Don't let hunger and desire dictate your food choices. Stay strong!
- Don't use hardships as an excuse to break your diet. This ruins your every diet. It only takes one excuse.
- Remember how strict you were during your very first CICO diet experiment all those years ago and how totally effective it was?! Do that again!
- Remember that dieting (like anything) gets easier if you do it for long enough. You can remember times when you thought, "Dieting is easy, why haven't I been doing this all along?"
- Remember how much better you feel about yourself after just a week of successful dieting, regardless of weight loss.
- Every time you think about eating something shitty, make a comparison of importance. Which do you want more?:
- Chocolate or your children?
- Hamburgers or happiness?
- Focaccia or your Family?
- Doughnuts or your dreams?
- Beer or your back?
- Fried Chicken or friends?
Good luck...
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1355 kcal
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Fat: 61.21g | Prot: 51.13g | Carbs: 144.88g.
Lunch: Coles Tomato Sauce, Green Peas (Frozen), Four'n Twenty Meat Pie, Ritz Original Crackers, Portview Mango Chilli Tuna. Dinner: Coles Tomato Sauce, Coles Beer Batter Steakhouse Chips, Steggles Chicken Breast Tenders (Sweet Chilli). more...
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