Good start to week 3

First two days of this week and happy to say right back on schedule. No snacks, no drinks the first two days, and very solid eating for that two days. I've also put away the scales for now. Again, no point to it. Whether I lose weight or not, I am on the diet now. I know it's great to see kgs fall off, but I don't want to be tied to that.

But I'm just glad to get through with no cheating so far. Of course, I was saying "don't cheat" to my 6yo son, and he asked what that meant. My wife said "it means do the right thing", but I corrected her and said it means "don't break the rules." Think about it. Boxing is a sport with rules. To do the right thing would probably mean don't punch that guy at all. But to obey the rules, you can punch the guy, but you can't kick him. I think schools have about the easiest example of black and white cheating. You sit an exam, you don't get outside help from anyone during the exam. Very simple. Yet the right thing would always be to seek help if you didn't know the answer, rather than try to do something you don't understand yourself.

But diet cheating is trickiest, especially slow carb diet. It allows some things that might be considered bad on other diets, because of their fat content, yet they are allowed in SCD? ie eggs and meat. Meat has plenty of fat, but can you eat a sausage which has more fat? It's not recommended you have the high fat foods, but not completely locked out either. It becomes sort of self regulated, as in I'll do my SCD different to the next person. So I may be cheating with a couple of my choices by someones regulation, whereas they might be cheating by my regulations.

I think this does make it tougher, becuase when a craving kicks into overdrive, your mind can overrule a normal regulation, which technically is not really cheating if you allowed the overrule. ie, I might say I'll do 6 good days and 1 bad, but even on the good days, I'll occasionally have a little something nice. This could be within the boundaries of your diet, therefore you aren't cheating. And I would say you'd still lose weight being 95% good and 5% bad.

For now however, I want to keep pretty close to a strict SCD. The exceptions I'll allow are a couple of extra Friday night drinks, perhaps even a small snack on those nights. However, with a Sun-Thu of solid diet, Friday solid with a couple of extra drinks, and Saturday complete cheat day, I think I'm in pretty good shape overall. I'm not yet fully looking forward to cheat day, really just trying to keep a low profile for the week, and I'll probably get more excited about it by Friday.

I should think of one thing I'd like cheat day, to get myself working towards that. I guess CCs + salsa would be one nice thing I'd like to allow myself.