Weigh in #1 (the real weigh in #1)

Hmmmm... For restarting my diet and then slipping this weekend, I've actually come out slightly ahead. According to my very "scientific" scale (which I'm sure you all have in your bathrooms), I'm down one pound to 244 lbs. Not impressive, but at least going in the right direction.

I'm still kind of recovering from my sugar binge this weekend where my body isn't really happy with my slip up and now I've got to get it back to where it likes me again. I noticed while I was eating the chocolate that it didn't really feel all that good to eat it (not like it did in the past). Plus I had some serious heartburn that night (which could be from a number of things - including dinner that was served). But for me, it felt it was from the overindulgence of chocolate.

I guess what's more important in how I'm feeling today. I had a bowl of Kashi cereal for breakfast and I'm feeling much better and that the rest of day will get better with the quality of food I'm planning for today.

So here are my photos from the actual real first weight in. Last week's post was labeled this, but it was really the baseline with no diet change. These are the first photos from my efforts and from here on out I'll number them as such.

Still, not pretty and not much has changed (I'm looking forward to the time lapse sometime this summer). I do feel less bloated that before where I don't feel my stomach bulging out as far nor do I feel so "toxic" if a person can feel that way.

There is a lot of difficulty in our lives to combat bad food choices. Especially when family is involved. So many bad habits have come from the types of comfort food that I've found myself enjoying over the years (well, almost my entire life). And when I'm in an environment that has only those for choices, then I'm finding less and less will power. Plus this event happened in the very first weekend of my new program so I wasn't really setting myself up for success.

But as I posted last night, it's not the fact that I slipped - I need to forgive myself of letting myself down - but to brush it aside and learn from it so I can plan for these types of events in the future.

My wife and I were talking about this as I'm writing this and one thing that she brought up was how easy it is to keep on binging once the "guard" is dropped and that first handful of candy is eaten that how unconsciously additional portions are just eaten. Without any thought at all to what we're doing.

It takes quite a bit of discipline to be only have a taste and leave it at that and that I hope that over time it isn't such a battle to be around all of those old comfort foods.