Day 435 (Day 7 of the Resurgence): 273 lbs

Yesterday repeated the same two diet mistakes I made on Friday: I went out to eat (dinner not lunch this time), and went about 10 calories over my 1,500 calorie quota.

There was no change in my weight from yesterday.

I'm trying to figure out why this week has been so successful on my diet, but so many earlier weeks weren't. I don't think it's a matter of different motivation. What I suspect is that it is all about patterns. I had fallen into a pattern of daily life which included regularly breaking my diet.

But last week I had some off-site projects to work on which stirred the pot a little, and broke the regular routine. Breaking the pattern in one way made it easier to break the pattern in other ways, and establish a new routine which included sticking to my diet.

That's the theory anyway.