Jeez, has it really been five months since I began and wrote about my journey to lose weight? The calendar says yes. It’s been an exciting yet challenging journey, and while I have lost only seventeen (17) pounds since I began, I feel better. I say only because I expected and hoped for double that total. Am I happy about it? Yes and no. Yes, I am moving in the right direction, and no, because it could have been much better. And I am prone to being distracted when focusing on goals. So, I have learned that I must get more focused and realize everything – and I mean everything – I eat affects me physically and mentally. I often also place high expectations on myself, expecting every day to be fantastic when it can’t be.
What I do like is that I have all but eliminated emotional eating. I won’t say how much or what I ate before when experiencing negative emotions – and the eating made it worse – but I will say it feels good to get this under control. Going forward, I need to tinker with a few things to achieve my goals, and I will do so. And that includes writing about it more than once every five months.
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