Do You Really STILL Weigh and Measure?
After losing over 50 pounds back in 2000, weight gained over 7 years of non-stop infertility treatments, IVF procedures and one successful pregnancy via ICSI, I’ve been maintaining a slim weight ever since, first fluctuating in the low 130’s. Then, this past September, I decided to get back to my wedding weight, and since November I’ve been fluctuating between 118-122.
I get asked by clients all the time, and with some incredulity and disbelief, if I still weigh and measure my food for portion control? Do I still menu-plan my days?
And with even more incredulity, I ask them if they honestly think I could have successfully maintained a slim, healthy weight all these years by NOT continuing to do all the things I did to lose weight.
Do they think I stay slim by accident? By luck? By some special dispensation from God?
Yes, I do weigh and measure.
Yes, I do menu plan.
Yes, I do prep my meals and snacks.
Yes, I do control 100% of the things I can.
And I can always control my portions when I’m in my own home, either prepping my at-home meals and snacks or prepping food to take with me to the office or on the road. It takes a second to slide a drawer open and take out a measuring spoon or cup or put a food item on my countertop food scale. There is absolutely no excuse for me not to.
When I first did this program in early 2000, I knew that I wasn’t going “on” a diet to only one day go “off” it.
I knew that this program was about CHANGE . . . and that my behavior had to change for my habits to change so that my body would change.
We change to go forward . . . not backward.
I learned long ago from my mom that when it comes to commitment (to anything) you’re either in or you’re out, there is no in-between.
And I learned long ago that being slim is a life management skill. I practice that skill every day.
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For good change to take hold, it’s got to be habit-forming.
It’s got to become a routine part of your day.
It’s got to be something you do automatically, without thinking . . . such as washing your hands before leaving the restroom; or brushing your teeth when you wake and at bedtime.
And as with anything wonderful in life that you want to keep – a loving relationship, a great job, overcoming an addiction, weight loss, a fit body, etc. – don’t you have to work at those things every day? I mean, you can’t go back to old, bad habits and think that the new, good whatever-it-is, will magically continue, right?
I love my life.
I love my body.
I love my health.
I love how I feel.
And I work hard every day to maintain all of it.
And the foundation to all of it is excellent eating habits. . . and being slim.
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