Well, so that went on without too much happening for a few weeks before I got up the courage to start making more changes in the way I was eating. Remember, its still early days but I feel the changes I already made were doing me some good. My weight had dropped some and over the next few weeks that rate of weight loss slowed down. But I wasn't so bothered as it was going in the right direction, which was NOT up! So what did I do next?
I had a long hard look at what I was eating and I didn't really like what I saw!
Lunches were a big problem for me because I spent my lunch break in a burger joint mainly or some other fast food restaurant that served up high calorie, high fat food that just was not good for me. I knew it and I just kept on going to the same eating places cause I just couldn't help it. Or could i?
You know, will power is a strange beast. Some things you can make yourself do that another person can't, while other folks seem to be able to do stuff easily that you think is almost impossible. Take those lunches. A few of the guys in the office just didn't eat that stuff at all. They stayed in the building where we have a small kitchen and heated the meals they brought to work with them. One of the guys was actually eating a diet from Nutrisystem! How could they do that and I could not?
I decided that I could and so I went to work one Monday with a meal my wife prepared the night before and put in the fridge for me to take in the morning. It was a simple meatloaf, potatoes and vegetable plate that I put in the microwave for two minutes and then sat down with the other guys who were visibly smirking at the fat guy NOT going to McDonalds, to eat my meal. I loved it. I mean it tasted great, I took my time over it and really tasted it probably more than I had ever done before. I was amazed. I got talking to the guys and they accepted I was trying to do something about my size and after the round of jokes, they got serious and said they'd do whatever it took to support me through "hamburger cold turkey"
I got through another four weeks like this and took a real meal to work every day. I met the guys in the kitchen and we got talking more on other stuff and I really started to enjoy my lunch breaks more than I had ever done just shoveling hamburgers down my throat with other fat guys in the burger joints.
Well, after that four weeks of real food for lunch, it was time for the moment of truth. When I next got on the scales, to my surprise and joy, I was below 200 and in fact was 192 pounds! This was a really nice thing to see cause I wasn't sure I had lost as much as that, although I had already gotten back into pants a size smaller as the bigger ones were now too big. Great!
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