It’s so easy to fool oneself as excess pounds pile on gradually. “It’s just water weight gain. It’ll be gone tomorrow” or “I definitely overdid it this weekend; but I’ll get back on track tomorrow … or the next day” or “I can’t help it if my job includes so many social functions and business lunches.”
One or two pounds a year take several years to force you to go up a size. I speak from experience. I remember as if it were yesterday the wake-up call my doctor gave me after watching me waddle down his office corridor looking like a stuffed sausage. I refused to admit I needed to move up to a size 14 (which is probably today’s 16).
He sat me down in his office and said, “I notice from your records that you’ve been gaining a couple of pounds a year. It’s really time to do something abut it.” I was so mortified that I started a sensible diet that very day. Within a year, I had lost 38 pounds and was back to my wedding weight. That was such a powerful lesson to me that I’ve maintained my ideal weight (plus or minus five pounds) for 25 years.
Now my diet mantra is “Everything in moderation.” I don’t deprive myself of my favorite foods. I weigh myself daily and if that needle shows two extra pounds, I monitor my food intake more carefully for a few days.
I know that if I don’t keep an eye on the scale, the pounds could easily pile back on and I wouldn’t be fooling anybody but myself! Find some of my favorite diet tips here.
Tags: weight creep, weight watching, moderation
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