Day 3

Three days without an eating binge... might be a record! I'm actually doing better than I usually do -- yes, I know, it's only the third day -- I'm not cheating. What's with that??

Of course, Judith Beck (I'm feeling like I know her well enough, since I've been through the book so many times -- I'll just call her Judith from now on. Or maybe "The Judith.")... Judith would not use the word "cheating." Smacks of rules and legalism, I suppose. She calls is "unplanned eating," which presupposes that one has actually planned out the food options for the day. Fortunately, I haven't gotten to that Day yet, and haven't begun to actually carve my food list in stone.

Today's task is to "eat sitting down." And at first glance, that's a no-brainer, but you would be surprised at how many opportunities there are to eat standing or walking around. Today was easy -- no opportunities like that all day :-) Well... except for fixing dinner. Somewhere in the book Judith says that she builds into her plan a little nibbling of the veggies as she prepares dinner, and I think that's a fun idea. I mean, extra vegetables have to be good, and since the rule for the rest of the day is Sit2Eat, it sorta feels like I'm getting away with something.

So, what did I eat today? Dressed up the breakfast sandwich with four slices of cucumber, and that added a nice touch. I got some fresh dill, but forgot to put it on... Maybe tomorrow. Lunched out by myself at Tijuana Flats -- had the small refried bean burrito, power-lite, no onions or jalapenos. Wonderful. I rode through the afternoon craving time in the doctor's office, and then I fixed leftover chicken, brown rice, and salad for dinner. Half an apple with half a container of yogurt for dessert (I shared with Earl), and then this evening I had a WW ice cream bar.

This morning the scale was down 2.5 pounds total. WooHoo! Of course, that was "as light as I could get," if you catch my drift, and it was not quite the same as fully clothed with shoes on this afternoon on El Doctero's scale...

Now, the doctor's appointment has thrown a monkey wrench into my dieting plans... I've had some symptoms lately that could indicate heart problems (both my parents died of heart attacks, so I suppose I'm somewhat at risk anyway), and to be on the safe side, he has asked me not to exercise or exert myself until they run some tests over the next couple of weeks. Normally I would be smugly gleeful over being told NOT to exercise because, frankly, I don't like to exercise. But, much to my surprise, I'm bummed about the whole thing because I've really geared myself up to do this right, and that apparently has to include some form of exercise.

So I have the perfect opportunity to just ditch the diet and say, "I'll come back to it when things settle down..." but I know that's the cheap way out, and I'm not going to play that game. Actually, I'm enjoying the monologue/blog, so I'm just going to forge ahead. TTFN.