Day 120: 272 lbs

No change in my weight yesterday, but I broke my diet again. Like Thursday, I gave in to temptation at the office, and stopped keeping track of how much I ate. I have no clue what my calorie intake for the day way.

Worse, though, on both days I took my breaking the diet at the office as permission to break the diet at home, too. As long as the diet is already broken....

But this is not good. This is the way I wind up getting completely off my diets: I start getting complacent, or not caring, or letting the temptations get out of hand. Pretty soon I'm breaking the diet at breakfast, and not caring about the rest of the day.

What I need to do is contain the problem when it happens. After I give in to temptation, I need to do whatever I can to immediately get back on track. That might mean skipping dinner, but it certainly doesn't mean taking the attitude that "as long as the diet is broken for today, I can keep breaking it."

As always, today is a new day, and a chance to start over. Today is also Christmas #3, which presents its own challenges. My strategy is to eat only one meal today, the big Christmas dinner. Then tomorrow will be Christmas #4.