Well I did survive the challenge with the Olive Garden leftovers, but there were a few other challenges in the past several days that I did not have he same success with. One of of my next goals is to get back to basics. When I say basics, I mean the simple things that have worked for me in the past. The two simplest things I can think of are keeping a food diary and weighing yourself regularly.

I am the kind of person that will shy away from getting on the scale if I think I am not going to like what I see, but this also allows me to deny the fact that eating 3 chocolate chip cookies and not exercising has no negative impact. If you do this only once it probably will not have much of a negative impact, but let this behavior become a habit and I guarantee you will not like what your see. The experts say that the people that weigh themselves regulary are more successful at mantaining their weight loss. Once or twice a week should do it.

Keeping a food diary has a way of putting it all in front of you in black and white. If you 3 chocolate chip cookies you are going to have to look at it in print. These food journal forms can be gotten off the internet. I like the ones that bes that have space for filling in your feelings and several other things that may be going on around you at the time your chose to eat. This forces you to face the emotions that seem to sometimes control what you eat.

These will be my two goals for the week. Keeping an ACCURATE food journal and weighing myself 3 times this week. If I can make these weight loss basics part of my weekly schedule, I should be that much closer to getting the rest of this weight off and keeping it off.