Back to school

Stats
Starting weight:159.2kg
Current Weight:148.2kg (roughly)
A loss of:-11kg
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This previous week was the start of term 3 and as such, meant that my two weeks of holidays was over and it was time to go back to class. This was my first lot of holidays in my weight loss journey and they were certainly one hell of a learning experience. Unfortunately, it provided me with some negative facts about my eating habits. Over the holidays my eating spiralled completly out of control, starting with a three day visit to my parents farm. After binging on the chips and chocolate I had brought with me (to sustain myself because I don't enjoy having my food choices controlled by somebody else) I found it near impossible to move back to the fairly good routine that I had established during term 2.

I had many arguments with myself every time I drove past McDonalds, walked through the bakery of the local supermarket and each time I so much as saw somebody eating something that I just knew I had to have. Needless to say, healthy me lost every single one of those arguments. It was only when I resumed class last week that I realised why I had so much trouble maintaining my healthy eating over that two week break. I had no routine! I could eat whenever I wanted! And I did.

Switch scenarios. Back to class. Breakfast (or not) at 8.30am, lunch at midday, afternoon tea at 4.30pm and tea at 6.30pm. A routine. I can't eat during class, can't eat between 4.30 and 6.30 as thats gym time. I will admit to having a fair amount of trouble with evening snacking, but hopefully I will improve with time. So routine will be my saviour.

Other news is that I now have my correct weight loss stats above this post. I went to the doctor to day and surprisingly, despite my disasterous holidays I have lost another 3kg. So happy! Just so you know, it has been nearly a month since my last weigh in. I had such good intentions but as I've already said, I didn't really stick to those intentions for long. At the beginning of that month I had planned to weigh 145kg by now. Thinking back I was probably being a bit optimistic. Slow and steady wins the race after all.

Despite my continued weight loss I am finding this hard. It is very hard, so hard, to break those many bad eating habits that I have formed over the years.

I am now goning to set my self a goal for the following week. My main eating problem at the moment is continuous snacking after tea, as such my goal is not to eat after 9pm. If you had just one look at my food journal you would quickly understand how hard I will find this challenge, though at the same time, I'm sure there are many out there who currently facing the same challenges or have already done so.

Signing of now people, wish me luck!

p.s. I discovered that I like salad.