It never feels like the right time to start a diet. There’s always something going on that it seems wiser to wait until after before getting started on the obsessive deprivation — I mean, healthy portion control. Sometimes, there’s just so much going on that you just have to dive in and hope for the best. One year, I started Weight Watchers the Saturday before Thanksgiving and managed to lose weight too.
This has been an extremely stressful work week for me. More stressful than usual. It’s just been one of those weeks where everything seemed to be happening at once. I had several projects that were “going live” as we say in the IT world and one project that should have been in testing mode, but there’s been nothing but problems with the connections and the people I have to work with on the Vendor side. Sometimes, I am so surprised at the new levels of moronic stupidity I encounter with Vendor Interface people. These are people who represent themselves as having experience interfacing their applications with other applications at hospitals nationwide and most of them are older than me, so I assume they’re more experienced and yet, I always feel as if I’m dealing with someone who has the same knowledge about interfaces as my mother, who I suspect is slightly computer-phobic.
But I digress.
My Diet2Go food arrived Wednesday night, so I “officially” started my “diet” on Thursday. Of course, that was the most chaotic and stressful day of the work week, filled with co-worker thoughtlessness, Vendor stupidity, inexplicable co-worker moronic stunts, a go-live gone really wrong,and a day gone on too long. The fact is that even one of my co-workers commented to me that he was surprised I hadn’t blown a gasket at some point.
The thing is I didn’t realize until the next day that it never even occurred to me to head over to the vending machine or to the desk of the woman selling candy for her kids’ football and cheerleading programs. I didn’t stop by my favorite pastry shop for a diversion. I actually ate only the food I’d planned to eat, no binging. I even cut my caffeine down to 12oz.
So, I’m thinking for the first day, it wast a success.
And no one died.
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Sounds like a success to me! Congrats! I’m struggling with my weight too, so I know how hard it can be. Definitely celebrate the little things!
Add me to the struggling list. Dilbertesque moments make me crazy under the best of circumstances, add in a new diet and I think I’d have gone completely off the deep end.
You’re doing great so far. One day at a time.
Way to go! Despite the bad moments last week that you know about, I was able to maintain and not go up, so, I’m calling that a win. I just imagine if I ha been able o stick to my gameplan. I should be on it solid this week. Keep up the good work.
K
I am really trying not to obsess. I’m on day 5 and I’ve already started obsessing a little about the scale. I may have to take it down to the basement. However, I have managed to cut my caffeine down to 12oz a day, though it hasn’t helped my sleep any.