Day 73 - Habits

We are trying to get the house set up for Christmas and I still need to clean two rooms.  But I decided that today no matter what I was going to try and do 10 miles.  Of course if T gets tired we will probably do less.  I just can't imagine doing a walk without her.  I know that TH (no not TSH that is what they test for my when they are testing my thyroid) goes with me, but the last three weekends we have both backed out.

It is part of the problem with trying to change bad habits in this house.  We let each other do things we know we shouldn't, but with another person saying lets be lazy it isn't all on you then.  It is giving permission to keep the status quo.  It is something both TH and I have to work at.  As much as I would like to say it was all his fault, I know we share the blame.  What we probably need to do is make a plan for a while and stick to it.  And I love planning.

And yes I believe now that being overweight is a bad habit.  No matter how you slice it overweight people eat too much.  You hear all the time how thinner people hardly eat, well as we all know now they do eat, it just isn't how much overweight people eat, but if you added up their calories you would find that they are eating within the recommend range.  At group the facilitator told us we probably were all consuming between 4000 to 6000 calories a day.  Who knows, but we do know that we were consuming more then1200 calories...

I know now that I can't count calories as I go.  I have to know what calories I have before I even begin the day. Basically I need to know exactly what I am going to have for the day and not deviate from that.

The facilitator told us to write down all these things that are going through our head during this process, and as we go forward in the program to go back and read these things when things might get confusing for us.  I think it is a good idea, but probably not very interesting for those reading this little blog.  - Sorry about that.