The end of Day Two is approaching. It's always a good thing to make it
through a couple of successful days adhering to a new commitment and
intending to keep up the good work. Especially when you think you have
stumbled on better ways to manage and accomplish things.

Today I ate all my meals at the table, did not graze or snack without
planning the snack and even when tasting something, put it on a plate
and sat down.  I entered my food choices in Fitday, balanced them
pretty well and even started tallying glasses of water to make sure I
had more than in the past.

I limited my caffeine and was careful not to have random amounts of fat.

I exercised and took several walks (not possible during the extreme
heat and pollution earlier in the summer).

I tentavively planned tomorrow's main menu.

I mentally prepared for being a guest tonight and having food offered
and a hostess tomorrow at a birthday lunch for a relative where I will
be involved with food preparation.

I read a book instead of watching more than two TV shows. I decided to
reread Dr. Phil's seven steps daily and make sure I stayed on board.

I set a reasonable goal for a moderate weight loss as I like to be at
the lower end of my ideal weight. It will amount to a five pound loss
and I will allow a generous five weeks to reach that goal. When ever I
am more than two pounds above the mid mark of my ideal weight allowance
it becomes necessary to rdedicate efforts.

Weight is like a balloon. let go of the string and up it goes.

About a year ago I joined a few Dr. Phil related Yahoo groups, just to see
what was going on.  They are dead, dead, dead.

I can't remember his 7 keys at the moment, but I seem to recall feeling they
seemed reasonable.

I think Dr. Phil's problem is that he needs to set a better example in terms
of his own BMI....

For a while I really took to Dr. P: his shows, his site,
younameit--even getting one of his books, until I thoughtfully
revisited at least one of his original shows from the Weight Loss
Challenge.

It rubbed me the wrong way how he lambasted a heavy woman for "hiding
behind makeup."

I mean, she was a little insecure about her weight, but there was no
reason for him to read anything into her enviably expert maquillage
job.

This is a real destructive out-of-control ego at work ...

A later thread here posted on being aesthetically challenged.

So, I became moreso after my weight loss and I use makeup (and as much
apple-cheekness as my moods can muster) to overcome some of these
aesthetic challenges.

Tina
220ish/139

His diet is recycled 1970s theories of the 4 food groups too.  It's fun
not to count calories precisely, even more fun to color code a serving
plate, or divide it, whathaveyou, but it does not work as well as
counting.