Well another week has passed and I’m down 2 more pounds! I have to be perfectly honest, I was hoping for more but then I realized, 2 pounds is a loss and it is going to take me a long time to get rid of this fat body I have built over a lifetime. I think for many, one of the biggest triggers of failure in dieting is impatience. We want it gone and we want it gone now! I think this is a product of fat person thinking that will just lead us back to our old eating habits.

I do however recognize some things that have definitely slowed my progress this week. First off, I found myself drinking a bunch of diet soda over the weekend. I can’t say for a medical fact that this is impacting my weight loss, but giving it up made an immediate impact and drinking it again seems to have had an immediate negative impact. Next, I have eaten some overly portioned Lean and Green meals in a last minute effort to make up for missed meals. All of this happened over the weekend as I was super busy in a home remodeling project. I wasn’t getting in my spaced out Medifast meals throughout the day as I was busy and forgetting to eat. I recognize that this isn’t the right way to feed my metabolism and over-eating a single meal is equally as bad. It was a learning experience on many levels for me.

I recognized some things that might help me in the long run to keep the weight off when I have finished the Medifast program. First and foremost, I found that eating many small meals has worked well to limit the total amount of food I take in daily. Second, by waiting too long to eat, I end up over eating, even healthy foods. This reveals to me for the first time the answer to a long standing question in my mind. I just couldn’t figure out how I had gotten fat and stayed fat in the last couple of years when I was only eating twice a day. Well, waiting too long to eat had me gorging during meal time and prior to starting Medifast, those meals I was gorging on were Carbohydrate loaded feasts! No real mystery how I packed on the pounds now!

It was a good week for learning about myself, my body and the importance of following the Medifast program exactly as it is laid out! I remain positive that I can finish this program, lose the weight and finally feel normal!