I have been slacking off.

It all starts where it always does - I’ve not been keeping my food diary for the past 8 days. I am such a bad girl. It’s always fine for about a week, and then…. one little bite becomes two. No accountability, no visibility.

Slowly the old habits reassert themselves.

Today I noticed that I ate all of every meal. I haven’t done that in several weeks. It comes on so slowly. If I mess up one meal I generally get back on it for the next. But this weekend I paid less attention, and then today, none at all.

I don’t see what choice I have other than to get more serious with myself. There is “no stress weight loss” and then there is “no weight loss at all”. I still think I can do it low stress, but I need to do it with a little bit more attention. Last September I had come up with a scoring system for each day that was a kind of checklist. I think I’m going to dig that out and re-work it for my current plans, and commit to tracking it for the month of February.

On the menu front, I ate a serving of the lentil soup for lunch, and made the celery root puree for dinner (with roast beef, as planned). I was the only one to like the celery root, as it turns out. My DH’s plans to travel have been put off for a few days, so a week of me and veggies will be less do-able but we’ll see where it takes me. I also made a pear and chocolate crumble for dessert. We had pears starting to get too old, and my DH found the recipe when flipping through one of my new cooking magazines, so…. Definitely not diet. It was too sweet, not really worth the calories or the trouble. I like pears natural better.