Back to blogging

I've never been good at keeping a journal. I'm good at starting them, but REALLY bad at keeping up with them! This blog ended up being a bit like my other journal attempts. All I have to do is miss one day, and I'm on the slippery slope to hell.

When I was blogging before, I found that it made me think more critically about my results, my efforts, and the choices I was making. Then I went through a spell of bad choices, derailing my progress with too much beer. I didn't want to share it, so I didn't blog. Well, I'm back to blogging now. But first, I had to make the choice to adjust my lifestyle to one that will promote success on the plan.

I know that the occasional beer is just fine. I even tested beer at one point. I just can't save more than one (occasionally two) in a day, and I should limit that to one to two days a week. Not two plus beers, three days a week. I can still go out, I should just have a glass of red wine and chase it with a little water.

Now that we've gotten a few of my personal issues out of the way....I'm excited to share a few of the things that I've learned in the last few weeks.

First, ice cream is friendly! I had a migraine yesterday and medicated it with two scoops of ice cream and I lost a pound! Score! Now, I know better to think that I can have it every day, but it's nice to know the occasional scoop of mint chocolate chip won't slow down my progress!

I also found that I can drink tea again. This is just as big as being able to drink red wine again! I haven't had either in about 10 years. Now and then over the years I've tried to test them and just a little bit caused me to drift into the migraine zone. Now I'm drinking a glass of red wine everyday (that I don't already have a migraine.)

Last week at the office I tried a mug of hot tea and was fine! It really proves the point that many of the ailments or sensitivities one suffers from isn't really what it seems. Apparently my tannin sensitivity was only because my body was already in a state of ill health. Now that I'm healing my body I can have tea and wine.

I have to admit that even though I've tested well on tea and red wine, that I'm still approaching it with a touch of trepidation. I have so many years of evidence that these two things made my sick that it's hard to trust my new state of health that allows me to have them.

Now that I'm back to blogging, there's just one more thing I need to do....post my weigh in results.

 I'm not entirely happy with it. I got as high as 200 lbs again in the last few weeks. I've found that one day off plan can cause as must as two pounds gain, but my average loss in a day is half a pound. It's so frustrating to take 3-4 days to undo one day off plan.

That has a lot to do with why I wanted to start blogging again. I need to accountability to keep me focused. I'm heading into an incredibly busy week at the office...maybe the busiest since I've been there. I'll keep posting and hope that it will help keep me on plan. I could sure use some encouragement!