ARB0001's Journal, 04 Mar 17

I'm pleased to see the direction and rate of loss a closer match to the original plan now.

What I've been doing (with maintenance mentality in mind) is to allow myself to have any type of riskier foods in the house that I fancy buying - and allow myself to eat whatever I want to from it - but - and this is the important principle I'm working with - if it turns out that I don't succeed in eating it 'sensibly' then I give myself a time-out before I'll let myself buy it again. Basically I also tell myself this while I'm thinking of behaving badly with it too, 'you know I won't let you buy this for quite a while if you decide to eat too much of it' I tell myself (and I mean it)

At the moment rankin's wheaten bread and pappadoms are on my time-out list.

When I buy them again I'll be saying 'now you know you've got to prove you can eat this sensibly or it'll be time-out again for this product!'

And how long is time-out in this context? basically at least a month or longer if I don't think I'm ready to try again - and I'm probably not ready to try again any time when foods are hitting the time-out list.. so that sounds I guess like I'm prepared to risk one over-indulgence a month.

Yep, that sounds quite sensible (to me).

71.7 kg Lost so far: 46.3 kg.    Still to go: 8.2 kg.    Diet followed: Reasonably Well.

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1271 kcal

Fat: 50.17g | Prot: 53.49g | Carbs: 151.52g.   Breakfast: Peanut Hottie Peanut Hottie, Waitrose Essential Fat Free Natural Yogurt, Belvita Breakfast Honey & Nuts. Lunch: Carrots, Nespresso Capsule, Waitrose Semi-Skimmed Milk, Tesco Finest Chicken & Ham Hock Lattice Pie. Dinner: Carrots, Aldi Sirloin Steak. Snacks/Other: Green & Black's Dark Chocolate with Mint, Waitrose Love Life Dried Blueberries, Hula Hoops Original (25g). more...