Plan Ahead to Successfully Lose Weight

Learning to eat a balanced diet isn't as difficult as learning not to overeat. That's because our culture is not taught to "deny" oneself. If we like it, we eat more. If the plate in the restaurant comes piled with food we eat it. Many diets talk about asking for a box when your food arrives and then scooping at least half of it into the take-home box before you start eating.

Why do I bring this up? We're going out for Mexican food tonight. I've already started making a plan, like don't eat the chips and order veggie fajitas. Depending on what else I have during the day would dictate whether or not to have the tortillas or not. It all goes back to balance. My new Momentum Weight Loss program is helping me learn to balance what I'm eating (thankfully without counting calories). It's liberating.

I've got all kinds of writing projects going and normally I'd let the stress or time crunch affect my weight loss goals, but so far I've stayed motivated. I tried out my new heart-rate monitor while exercising yesterday but need to learn how to get through the different modes on the watch so I better understand what I'm doing. The bottom line is, I exercised for 32 minutes yesterday! A stressful day--an exciting day--and a no cookies or chip day!