Day 3 Update

Well here it is 3 days after starting my journey to health and I am a whole .4 of a kilogram lighter. The Physicsdiet.com website uses the Hackers Diet which is a whole new way of looking at things especially weighing yourself. Because you weigh every day and record on the site, it takes an average every 10 days (and records the average weight on a graph for you) it doesn't really matter if it goes up by half a kilo in a day cause the next day it could be right back down again which will all even out in the end. It just makes the weighing thing that whole much easier to handle. Anyway, I am also using calorieking.com.au to record my food and exercise calories and also record that information on the physicsdiet.com chart (along with my daily weight). I just hope this time I can keep it up. The Hackers diet talks about the Eat Watch and why obese people (like myself) don't have the inbuilt Eat Watch that thinner people have (knowing when to eat and when to stop!), so because of that you need to do your own Eat Watch and basically make sure you never go over your allotted number of calories. In the end, they say, it is still all about calories in and calories out..............

Anyway, feeling okay about it so far. Went out to lunch for work yesterday with a bunch of workmates (which was totally free!). Ended up having 2 glasses of wine and a huge turkish "mixed plate" AND some baklava, BUT I did count the calories, didn't have any dinner (at all!) just a cup of coffee and I managed to still stay within my calorie limit. What is good is that I wasn't hungry at all so it was really easy not to eat anything. Felt really good actually cause I would normally have eaten dinner regardless of how full I was, just because it was dinner time.

Going out to dinner tonight to an Italian Restaurant with my other half's family. Have only eaten 300 calories so far so have heaps saved for tonight. I will still pick a lower cal version (ie tomato based sauce etc) but will also have my couple of glasses of wine and a desssert. I want this to be a diet I can stick to for the rest of my life so going out to dinner and having treats all comes into it but instead of going ballistic I shall try to limit the serving sizes. That way I can still eat what I want but within reason. That is my theory anyway and I am sticking to it.

Shaz