Quick Update

With family in town (and staying at my house), I’ve been busy and away from my computer.  Hence no daily updates.  But I just wanted to say that I’ve stayed the course with my plan.  Yes, throughout multiple restaurant outings, I’ve managed to resist temptation.

The strange thing, actually, is that there’s never been much of a real temptation.  I’ve hit a point where I’m genuinely not that hungry, and where the really heavy, fattening entrees don’t sound that good to me.

I’ve been having some difficulties with my workouts.  I did something weird to my back while sitting on the floor, helping one of the kids assemble a new toy the grandparents bought.  I leaned over to reach for the scissors (so I could cut some more of those extremely annoying twist-ties that keep things anchored into their packaging), and as I did so, I felt a muscle just sort of go, “Twinnnnnng!”  Instantly, pain shot through my entire body.  I’ve had similar problems before on a couple of rare occasions, but those had involved bending over in awkward positions to lift stuff.  But the effect has been the same - I feel most comfortable when sitting or lying flat on my back.  Exercise was unthinkable for at least a day.  Yesterday I made it down to the basement and did 25 minutes on the eliptical without too much discomfort, but then afterward my back seemed to feel worse again.

I haven’t weighed myself in several days, but I’m pretty sure I will not see a gain.  I don’t know if I’ll see a loss, exactly, but I doubt I will have put on weight.

I’m not sure when I slipped into the mode of being in such a stride that all of my “diet” practices have turned into the “new normal.”  I was trying to explain to my mom - who was expressing admiration and amazement at my self-control yesterday, when I did not order fries at Chic-Fil-A - that I don’t even WANT fries.  They don’t even sound that good to me.  Likewise pizza.  Last night was American Idol, and although I did have fleeting thoughts of doing our usual pizza and wine, those thoughts immediately turned to what happened the last time, when I overate and overindulged and got violently ill with something.  I did NOT want to do that again!

So the things that have always been huge temptations don’t loom nearly so large.  It’s cool.