Day 503: 279 lbs

Yesterday was a pretty good diet day. I went about 50 calories over my 1,500 calorie quota (boooo), but I did carefully measure most of my portions (yaaa). Still room to improve, but not as bad as some days have been. And I re-lost the two pounds I re-gained yesterday.

Our local paper had a depressing article about diet bloggers a few days ago. Basically, every diet blog they highlighted with one exception was a failure. Of course, nearly every diet is also a failure, especially when the goal is to lose more than just a handful of pounds.

Losing a lot of weight (and keeping it off) is hard hard work. It's worse than trying to quit smoking or stop drinking because you must eat to live, so the temptation to overeat is always there. If the reptilian part of your brain wants to eat more than you should, for whatever reason, the only way to succeed is to override it through sheer force of will. Constantly. It literally requires the discipline of a monk, and self-discipline isn't a trait which is highly valued in our society.

But as I keep saying, resisting temptation is a skill which you practice and get better at. Yesterday I managed to resist some pretty serious temptations, so I'm glad of that.