Coming Clean

Hey kids, are you going to finish those french fries? No? Great, Daddy will.

Birthday cake? Of course I'd love a piece.

Hmmmm, a half-eaten bag of chips that has sat here for over a week? I better eat those because I hate throwing away food.

Tastee Subs?!? I always make an exception for those! Heck, President Obama could not even resist those.

White Rose?!? I'll have a Pork Roll and Cheese, a Cali Cheese and a Grilled Cheese. What, I gave up dairy? Nah, not at White Rose. Oh, and I guess not with cake either.

I do my best to eat well. And over the last few years I've been pretty successful. But not perfect. There are a variety of excuses as to why and none of them are good.

Since April I've been actively trying to lose weight and have closely monitored my calorie intake. My weight has gone from 228 pounds on April 11th to 214 pounds as of today. Along the way I lacked some discipline in my diet - occasionally allowing some chips, a piece of cake, a handful or french fries. Not all the time, but enough that the bad habits were going to catch up to me. Now Georgie may say this is all well and good to indulge a little but I was going beyond 150 or so calories of indulgence.

Here is the big problem with my lack of discipline - it was all well and good to sneak some bad foods in while I was still burning more calories than I was taking in and losing weight. Losing weight was the goal and I was dropping a couple pounds per week so what did it matter if I just ate a huge bowl of ice cream? Eventually I hit a plateau and then saw my weight jump up a few pounds last week. At this stage for my weight loss goals I need to be more disciplined to drop these last pesky pounds. Easier said than done but if I allow too much indulgence with my current diet I'll be stuck around 215 pounds.

So for all the good and gains of the last few weeks the lack of discipline and honestly with my diet caught up to me. Time to get serious, get real and stay honest with myself.