Its been 7 weeks now and I’ve been watching how I eat but mostly watching and counting what I eat. I’ve reached a few tentative conclusions about dieting. Dieting is work! You have to commit like to some kinda relationship where you want to last it out, make it work, live through the hard times. You need a friend of sorts to help manage you, give you tools and ways. The tool I found is a free site which I hereby highly recommend. It provides a great interface for the number of things which I think are challenges in the game of getting healthier, learning about how to eat (again), and basically re-inventing oneself. The major categories to this trek are:
- Learn how to be motivated. The truth here is that without motivation and creativity you will not rule the day or even seize the moment. It will become mere work and a drudgery and not a goal. Find the motivation to continue and I think it can be difficult and time consuming and it can demand a lot.
- Find suitable resources that help. There are suitable resources that can help. Community resources, health professional, family. You never really go it alone. Here in my family unit, I have lots of support. Outside, I have this circle of friends that tell me positive things like I am looking better, the difference is noticeable, etc. My personal care Doctor tells me each visit how proud he is of me; how he knows I am getting stronger and healthier and perhaps one day I can dis-continue a blood pressure drug. All these build one upon the other. Look at this way. Without this, the next one is impossible.
- Build a strong foundation. Well, you need to know what you are after and I think its important in this game of health and weight loss and goal driven behavior to know when you reach a goal. In my current job, I joke with a rather major hosting company I do business with at a partnership level and tell them that “they reached a milestone; a delivery objective”. They laugh at the project manager speak. But under that is the foundation. For them, they pride themselves on delivery. In any of the games that you play, delivery is important.
- Find strength. Strength to continue with the plan. Strength can come from out and in. Just find it.
I lose all of the above at times and I watch other people eat things, drink things, and I want. Its really hard. I think its never easy. There is never a point where you can really say “I’m done with that over-eating thing”. You always have to measure, account, track.
I’m looking at this after 7 weeks and 30 pounds. There is no end and no time I could say its okay to sink back. But I wonder… What other life goals can you apply the same lessons I’ve learned? We’ll see what happens next 
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