The Other People

A diet is a selection of food that makes other people lose weight.

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Emotional Calories

“If hunger is not the problem, then eating is not the solution”

I must apologize for being such a lazy blogger lately. I guess I could blame many things. The emotional turmoil in my life this past week. My busy schedule. The weather. Anything and everything. Yet in all honesty I’ve just been too lazy to post. My weight loss project has found a nice balance. I’ve started to figure out my daily energy need on my own without that much help from various calorie counters. My weight keeps going down and I feel like I’m getting fit. In other words, everything is going to the direction I wish it to go – and on a nice and steady pace. That leaves me with nothing major to report.

But I’m still here. Continuously trying to figure out what the best lifestyle choices for me are. The diet profile questionnaire on Calorie Count gave me a little more insight into things. According to my profile I’m an emotional eater and as such use food to affect my mood.

“emotional eaters should plan their meals ahead, and always have a clear idea how much they want to consume”

I guess my food diary has saved me from numerous “emotional calories” during these past four weeks. I hope I can keep it up in the future as well!

Go ahead and find out your own diet profile. I’d love to know what kind of obstacles other people have on their path to healthier diet.

Focusing On Today

“Do you live in tomorrow when you must face today? At times, I forget to live in the moment, but what do I miss? The setting sun, the sound of birds’ singing and, most importantly, I miss meeting myself. I am constantly changing, and if I don’t spend time with myself in the here and now, I will never get to appreciate who I truly am because I am too busy focusing on who I want to be.”

Gary Barnes

I’m going to be out of town this weekend – focusing on life outside of dieting. Catch you on Monday!

Sounds Like My Day

“I burned sixty calories. That should take care of a peanut I had in 1962.”

Rita Rudner

I’ve Been Known To Do The Latter..

“One should eat to live, not live to eat”

Cicero

Taking A Day Off

“A diet is the penalty we pay for exceeding the feed limit”

Today is the first day on my diet when I’m not going to write down everything I eat. I’m not quitting that habit but I’ll give it a break for the day. I’ll be going out with a friend and I think it’s best for the both of us if I give myself a break. Besides, I’m worried about my low calorie intake so perhaps a change to that will be exactly what I need.

I’ll be back on track with everything tomorrow.

“Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits”

Robert Puller

Enemy Number One

“In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains.  Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale.”

Stephen Phillips

Lunch Break

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating”

Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright

Doomed?

“But I am avoiding the all-or-nothing attitude. Diets are doomed to fail from the Monday we finally start them (again). If we truly want to change who we are and what we look like when it comes to weight, we have to change how we deal with food in our lives.”

I was browsing through the blogosphere again the other day and found a really cleverly written article by Jody Genessy.

Thanks to Run the cat for pointing me to that inspiring piece of writing!

Coincidentally, I Have Always Loved Maths

“Mathematically, it is much easier to lose weight than to gain weight”

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