3 Weeks Down and a Life Time to Go!

This scale thing has gotten out of control! While learning to eat correctly, the right amounts, the right items and the right foods, due to my type A personality, I have become obsessive-compulsive! (Not that it is new to me!) But the worst part of it is that I jump on any scale I can find to see if I lost any weight in the hours following my last scale-visit.
The truth is, loosing weight is a wonderful feeling! I can’t wait to start each day and see what the scale has to say: Of course, there are days when the scale and I aren’t speaking! But for the most part, it is a pleasant surprise. I gauge my weigh-in time just before I eat or drink anything, right before I step into the shower. Then I make sure I stand just right on the scale: A little to the front with the right foot, a little to the back with the left foot. That seems to give the best and lowest reading.
At the UniqueU Medical Weight Loss Center this week, I was just ounces away from hitting my 20-pound weight loss. After just three weeks, I can definitely tell in my face and belly, and my legs seem to be getting smaller too. My clothes are feeling so much looser and I can fit into lots of clothes that I have either never worn or haven’t worn in a long time! I love it!
The longer I am on this program the easier it gets. I have now learned what to order when I eat out, what curbs my wants, and how to get through the evening when I want to munch a bunch. In reality, I am never really “hungry” except when I wake in the morning. I want to snack, but only out of habit. I want to eat, but then I think that I have lost almost 20 pounds and I am certainly not going to blow it on a snack!
I am working out every morning at the gym and why would I go to all that effort if I was just going to waste my workout on snacks. I know the logic of the whole diet, exercise and loose weight thing has always worked, but food has somehow over ruled the reasoning. I love food! The difference is that now I eat to live, instead of living to eat.
Being the food-centered society that we have become, changing our habits to not meet in restaurants, not include food at every gathering, or not having a houseful of snacks is a change for most of us. We include food as part of every event! Being part of an event is not a bad thing, but when it takes over the reason for the event, well, maybe we should take another look at what we are doing!
The UniqueU Medical Weight Loss Program has shown me a new way of dieting. It provides the information, the supplements and the medical “crutches” which makes it such a workable program for everyone.
Almost 20 pounds after three weeks is monumental! I can’t wait to get down to the next level!
Here is my new photo as well. See my cheekbones? They weren’t there three weeks ago!