I hate the phrase “it’s a lifestyle change”!  I really do.  I hear it all the time from people when talking about weight loss.  Today, however I realized (again) that I really do have to change my life.  I recently learned to be aware of how my dieting can affect those around me – making others uncomfortable; for instance refusing to eat a the dinner rolls because they are ‘too many carbs’ while at dinner with someone 50lbs heavier than me, who just ate their third roll – might make my dinner companion feel ashamed. I bring it up because today when everyone wanted to go to a Mexican restaurant for lunch – I didn’t make a big deal about my diet.

I avoided the chips and salsa without saying a word about it – I even found a semi-healthy food choice on the menu (it wasn’t a national chain, so my food journal is a best guess).  After lunch, we went to the grandparents to play a board game called Fast Track – that’s where the temptation came – a plate full of confections that still make my mouth water.  I ate a half a piece of fudge, a small piece of a treat that resembled a rice crispy treat, and a chocolate liquor candy.  Its sounds worse than it actually was – all pieces were actually much smaller than a whole piece.  I put the closest thing I could find in my food journal – and I most likely under-estimated how much I ate.

Anyway – I realized today that I really have to change my life.  I can’t eat the foods I used to be able to eat.  Pizza is most likely off the list forever – as well as oatmeal creme pies.  Its going to be a long road…

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