June 3, 2011- The Grocery Store

Well, my mind is clear, and yes I am forging ahead with the weight loss plan. This means I have to go to the grocery store. Now the choices are simple because I picked a pretty restricted plan. I need meat, fish, eggs, cottage cheese, oat bran, and diet soda. My brain is already thinking of potential deviations. So I also bought almonds and walnuts as a possible desperate snack. Since nothing else could be considered at the moment, I was in and out of the store in 15 minutes flat.

I am off work for a few days so this is a perfect time to try and be a perfect follower of a new diet. You all know that logic. If I remove all tempations and move to another planet my weaknesses will never follow me! Of course I nibbled on handfuls of nuts today but otherwise stuck to the diet. Took my dogs to the park and felt pretty good.  I forgot to mention that the Dukan diet requires 20 minutes of exercise per day in the beginning. So we'll see how that goes on day three.  My refrigerator is stocked with plenty of allowed foods and I have not touched my normal crackers and cheese nor have I had anything but water, coffee, tea, diet soda and more tea to drink. I'm not getting on a scale yet. Later will be time to obsess about that. I think my brother has my scale under his bed, not that he needs lose any weight.

A little note from my past. When I was cleaning out my dresser this weekend I found a weight loss log written by my mother ten years ago. She managed to lose 30 pounds in nine months, and proceeded to keep it off until she passed away some years later. At that time she had closets full of new clothes that she had bought after that dramatic weight loss. I will say my mother and her mother before her fought many battles over weight only to win the fight very late in life.  I have determined that I will not wait that long and get to my optimum weight now and forever more. How's that for determination!  As they say, "life is what happens when you're making other plans", but no more excuses. This is now and I am on a mission.