Day Five: Momentum

Momentum is a very important subject when it comes to anything in life, especially weight watchers. Its totally in your head, but by day 5 of this, saying no to a certain food feels more like a rule that someone else gave me than a rule I gave myself. They say that you have to have self control, but SELF control is something that's really hard, and you don't want to be doing something that's hard for the rest of your life -you have to find a way to make it easy on yourself. And building momentum is the best way to do that. Your loyalty is to the chart on your wall rather than what you see when you look down at your belly. Having something that's rolling on it's own is the best way to create that feeling for yourself. For me, its the work I did in the recent past. It's seeing how many points I've eaten everyday for the past week right in front of me. I don't need to make myself feel like I let myself down, I just stay within my points so I don't let the chart down.

This is why it's very important to stay perfectly within your points each week. Because a little slip up, and you lose the momentum... And I hope you realize by now I mean mental momentum, not physical. It won't actually stunt your weight loss if you accidentally eat 36 extras one week, but it will (if you're me) totally stunt your mental momentum. AND THAT WAS MY BIGGEST PROBLEM THIS WHOLE TIME. You see, at first, whenever I went over my 35 extra, I would give up and fall off of weight watchers. Then I realized that I needed to be easier on myself, so I continued to stay on even if I ate like 65 extra that week. Of course that was really smart of me because when I fall off, I probably eat more like 300 extra a week. So I wasn't gaining weight all year, but I wasn't losing any. So as I enter this new phase of my weight watchers journey -you know, the starting fresh phase, I will both stay in my points every week, AND not fall off. Imagine that.

And I feel the same right now as I did a couple days ago: Bored and can't think of anything else in the world I want to do besides eat... But somehow it's WAY easier to ignore today, because I have 4 days of success behind me. AND IT'S ONLY DAY 5 PEOPLE!!! That's so nothing. And yet, the science of momentum is so strong that it already has an effect after only 5 days. And right now, I'm excited about this, because I finally believe that I can do it. And by Christmas I'll probably be 130 pounds.

Advise of the day: Somehow figure out how do get through 4 days, and then ride the momentum forever.

POINTS EATEN TODAY: 27