The best way to get something done is to focus on it.
Focus too much on it and it becomes an obsession! So where’s that happy medium everyone talks about!
The less I like doing something, the more time I need to spend making sure I don’t “not do” it. Otherwise I have a tendency to just put unpleasant things out of my mind and go merrily along.
I have spent the last twelve days not overeating! That should be simple. I just go about my life and when dinnertime rolls around, I eat what’s on the menu and move on. But, as anyone who has ever dieted knows, it doesn’t work that way. I tried not calling it a diet, but let’s face it folks, this is NOT my normal eating plan! It may be a healthy diet, or a diet I will need to maintain for the rest of my life, but it is not normal – yet.
I tally up those meager little calories ten times a day. I weigh myself every morning. I know, I know, they say not to do that, but if I don’t, I don’t stay focused. I dread the evening walk, but I’ve been able to keep doing it.
The only hope I have is that pretty soon this lifestyle will become a routine. Most routines that I have acquired in the past required at least three weeks of repetition. Nine more days and counting…
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