Well, since Thanksgiving, I've been fighting to stay on track with my eating. A little extra snacking here, let's add some potatoes there, sure the portion looks a little larger than usual but.....
We all know how that ends up. Up. In your pants size, up on the scale numbers, up in smoke go your plans for that holiday outfit.
Today was a turning point, though. I've been fighting to stay on track, as I said at the beginning, and most days it was a draw, but today I felt like I was back in my good groove. Sure, I was tempted to hit the trail mix but it was easy to talk myself out of that. I didn't come home and have a snack while I was putting dinner together. And it wasn't a struggle, it was just a conscious acknowledgement of wanting to nibble and knowing I wasn't actually hungry and easy to tell myself "nope, I'm good," and close it down. It's a relief, I tell ya. I've been sort of cruising with my eating for several months and I'm hitting a plateau weight-wise, which I know just takes time while my body readjusts again to the newer me, before I start losing at a regular pace again, and I'm confident that that is exactly what will happen.
And it doesn't hurt that I was wearing my new, smaller trousers today :)