Week 2 Weigh-In

I lost one poud this week. Previously I might have got cross about this "Only one pound!" But I've decided one pound is great. I stopped dieting last June, partly because I was frustrated by my slow progress. But if I had stuck with it and continued that slow progress, by now I would be a very nice weight indeed. So one poud is fine. One pound is great. And I'mm keeping going with week three of the graprefruit diet.

I See A Pattern

There seems to be a pattern emerging - Wednesday morning I weigh-in and find a depressingly small weight loss for the week. Thursday morning I weigh myself again, although really I shouldn't, and find I've dropped two more pounds overnight. This time I hope I can keep them off all week, and maybe drop one or two more.

The thing is, I hate it when I micro-manage my weight like this, and spend hours mulling over every little day-by-day loss or gain. I want to concentrate on the big picture, and live my life rather than obsess about how much I weigh all the time.

Diet Bracelet

A few years ago a friend gave me a bracelet made of quartz crystals to help me stick to the diet I was on at the time, because they're supposed to give you strength and help you achieve your goals. Or something. I don't believe in the magic power of crystals, but I do know that every time I reached out for a chocolate bar or a slice of pizza, I saw the diet bracelet and remembered I wasn't supposed to be eating food like that. So in a way, it did help.

The crystal bracelet snapped and I lost it, but the next time I went on a diet I bought myself a new diet bracelet (this one is red) to help me remember not to eat fattening foods. I think all these little tricks help, even if they don't actually have a direct effect on my body, they have an effect on my mind.

Plateau

I know that for me, the danger time in any diet is when my weight-loss hits a plateau. I can practically starve myself if the pounds are dropping off. But if my efforts seem to be in vain it is extremely difficult to keep my motivation.

What I need is a strategy. What will I do if (when) I hit a plateau? Hmmm.