I put on a few pounds in the last month. Maybe a couple over the
holidays, plus a few more from discovering a really good
all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet not too far from me.
I'm now doing the traditional post-holiday diet. The nice thing is
that I only need to lose five pounds or so. (I was up ten pounds, but
the first five were obviously water gain, and melted away after a few
days of behaving myself.)
I'm going to be at 1300 calories and no more than 60 grams
carbohydrate until I get back to 117 pounds. I'd forgotten -- after
several months of maintenance -- that sticking to 1300 calories means
making choices. I can have an afternoon snack (sugar-free pudding)
_or_ I can have fruit in the evening _or_ I can have my pistachios in
the evening, but I can't necessarily have all of those the way I was
used to.
The good thing is that maintaining the weight had become really pretty
easy, and I know just where I fell off the wagon and how to avoid it.
I hope that once I get back to my goal weight, it'll be easy once
again. In the meantime, it's not too bad, but I need to be more
mindful.
Started 3/1/2004
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