Hey there wonderful people
Yesterday I decided for the 10th time since the beginning of the pandemic to get back on CICO. A bit of background: I'm a 46 year old dad of a 6 y.o. kid, and I've been overweight since my early teens, and obese since the early 20s. I found this sub on 2016 or so, and on late 2017 I decided to give CICO and C25K a shot, and managed to go down from 125kg to 106kg in 18 months, slow and steady. Joined a ton of 5k and 10k races and even a half marathon in August 2019 in which I finished nearly last, but I finished it. In late 2019 I started to fall off the wagon a bit but I was certain I'd get back on track in early 2020, and then covid showed up.
Fast forward to now and I'm pretty much back to square zero. I'm not sure about my weight as I'm afraid to check, but I'm sure it's over 120kg.
Looking my self at the mirror last Friday night I decided to get serious again about calorie tracking. And then today my mother in-law (we're in the isolation bubble with my in-laws to get support while my wife and I work from home) who usually cooks or orders the most tempting food decided to cook my favorite dessert, a typical Brazilian dessert (pudim de leite). It was tough to see that thing tempting me all day.
My main strategy was to pick up a book I've read in 2017, Amy Johnson's "The little book of Big change", and remind me that an urge is just a thought, not an order or a reason to try to "out think" it. It's an habitual thought which is best when it's simply discarded as new thoughts will come, our brain is a constant, random thought generator. It seemed to have helped.
Anyway this post turned out to be a long rambling. In any case here's for day 2 of my journey, I hope I have the strength to stick to it. Have a good week folks!
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