OK.. I AM Up Some

Hello weight losing fans...

Today I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183.2-pounds.

OH David, you're crash landing. OH, you have given up.

Me: Ha, it's just about the same as this day one year ago when I stepped up onto the Magical-Mystical-Digital-Scale weighing in at 183.8 pounds. Well, it's just a tiny bit less.

It's easy to explain. There was this really, really, really giant donut last night, and I ate it. OH, just kidding you.

Actually, someone invited me to have some turkey soup last night at around 8 PM. I had two bowls of Turkey Noodle Soup, a slice of oat bread, and a small slice of cheese cake. This food was sitting in my guts this morning when I weighed myself.

Yesterday when I finished my post at the library I weighed myself just for giggles because I was feeling rumbly in my tumbly. I weighed just under that 180-pounds that I have been sitting at.

I am not worried about this. Also, it's just about the same as last year. That's pretty good.
Again, I will write, I am not in a big hurry to shave off that last twenty pounds. Someday I will get there.

I was talking today with a friend. We were talking about what it means to eat sensibly. Well, that's a real good question to ask. Here is my answer: I don't know.

I can not determine for you how many calories you should eat to begin to lose weight consistently. You could need 1,200 calories, or you could use 2,000 calories.

I am not naive either about the notion most of us have some sort of sweet tooth. Some people can't leave the chocolates alone. Some people have to have ice cream.

I am not going to tell you that on every single day that I have been working to lose that 60-pounds I was perfect.

My friend was saying that I am not a 100% effort guy with my weight loss. OK...

So you are? Oh please give me a break.

Let me explain something to you. If you're too rigid with your eating program, then one day you will completely abandon it. Oh, you think I am kidding. Just look at all the fatties out there in Hollywood, California.

Look at Oprah Wingrey. She has regained 40-pounds. She said she gave up the food program that she was on. Oh really. I once read the list of food she consumed during her so called diet regimen. There wasn't any room for that sweet tooth. I wish that I could find the magazine I read the article in.

Here is my point. I don't know what a good diet is for you or anyone else. I know this: If you will cut back down on the amount of food you consume, then you will lose weight. This is what I have been writing all along.

About a year ago I wrote a blog post called the Snicker Bar Diet. I am sure for the food pureists out there that raised the hair on the back of the neck. My point in that post was I could eat a Snicker Bar that was 450 calories, three times a day. I would lose weight.

I also wrote that wasn't the most beneficial meal program out there because some essentials were missing.

I am hard pressed to tell anyone to eat only green vegetables. I am hard pressed to tell anyone to do only the Doctor Atkins's Diet. I am hard pressed to tell anyone to be so rigid with that food consumption. I didn't do it for a long period of time.

It was only the initial stages of my weight loss season that I disposed of all the things around my apartment that really tempted me to eat beyond what I ought. I experimented later, and developed that will power to say no.

When I went back in my postings for last year, I read what I wrote for January 5, 2008.
I tried to recopy the post into this blog. Unfortunately, I am not so adroit at using blogger yet. I still mangle stuff when I cut and past.

That post is in the archives on the left. If you want to know my sentiments about what I think about losing weight then you can go back and read it.

I am going to some up what I wrote in one short sentence: "Losing Weight Sucks." Got it?

The rigid diet regimens and eating right sucks. Avoiding the donuts when everyone around is eating one sucks. Avoiding that Whopper Hamburger, Chocolate Shake, and Large French Fries sucks.

Not eating some of the cookie dough while baking the cookies for the bizarre, Sucks.

Giving up my beer, Sucks. I hate it.

How else am I going to put it? Oh, you're so disciplined eh? Yeah, you have it all figured out. Yeah, please leave me alone then, because I don't have a lock on all the food strategies.
I don't have a lock on avoiding cookies.

There are some days, some days I eat.

I have a question, why is it that for over one year, I have kept my weight pretty much around 180-pounds. Could it be because I am not so rigid that I'll make myself crazy? Could it be, I am gentler and kinder to me? Could it be?

Go ahead: cut yourself off from everything. Yeah, play the food fascist. Then I'll see you crash just like everyone else does.

Go ahead, get into that real strict exercise routine. Yeah, go out and exercise like a fiend. Then when your schedule changes, you'll get out of shape just like the rest of the people out there.

Nope you're eating has to fit with-in the parameters that fit you. The easiest way to do that is to count those calories. Keep a close watch on the weight everyday. If you see a problem, then adjust right away. Don't wait for the weekly weigh in. It's too late then.

Don't take the numbers on the scale personally either. They are just numbers. Those numbers can vary by as many as 5-6 pounds in one day. Simply because there is fluid and food inside that hasn't been digested yet.

I am not you, and you are not me. If you want to lose weight, the easiest thing to do is just cut back how much food you consume. Oh, you could go on one of those high protein diets, like the Doctor Atkins's diet. In the end, you'll still have to watch how many calories you consume.

Number counter when I finished this post for today: 8662

Bye for now...

And that's the way it is...I'm David Dane