Another winner

No updates last few days, and not for negative reasons. Hit the scales another 2 kg lighter last week, 101 kgs now. This was another shock to me, after losing 2 kgs the week before, I honestly expected very little. But I'll admit by Thursday/Friday last week, I was definitely feeling the lost weight. Cheat day was normal bad stuff, good day overall. Went to 3 different venues for my bad food, and ate reasonably bad only. My only real regrets for that week was too much alcohol. This week has already been solid though with no drinks in the first two nights.

It's worth pointing out the standard diet week. After cheat day, you usually feel a bit average, body feels bigger again, cravings are around a little more. By about Tuesday, you start to wonder whether weight will come off this week at all, as the body feels the same as after cheat day. Then the last couple of days are weight freefall. You wake up feeling light and good. The cheat day is also looming now, as is the weekend, so your spirits are nice and high. Come Saturday morning, you weigh in lighter (hopefully), and have a full cheat day ahead, so that's about the peak feeling.

The diet is going very well, but I'm going to throw some curve balls in here. It's now time to adventure slightly outside the parameters. You see I want to keep doing this long term, but want something a little more realistic. I can't keep avoiding pastas, rice, sauces forever. But I also don't want to go back to bad food or snacking out all the time. I'm trying some things out, but it will be like this now. If any of the negative foods outweigh the positives, and are needed to fill up, I'm doing something wrong. A point would be a pasta dish or rice dish. If I need a huge serving of rice or pasta, I'm not getting enough good food. In fact I'll probably not have these meals much anyway, and rice may be subtituted fully for beans. The point is in the long term I want myself, and my family to move away from using rice/pasta/bread/cereals as fillers for meals. It means you aren't getting enough meat and vegetables if you need it. Slight addition for flavouring is fine. I don't expect this to stick for the kids 100%, but hopefully for myself and wife it should be a good combination.

For this week, I've been good so far, with exception of having sausage meat (little too fatty) and taco shells. Even then, had heaps of salad and vegetables, so these are acceptable meals to me. Next couple of days have cheat lunches at work, but nothing too bad. Rest of the diet week should be as normal by normal standards. Saturday is a party at our house, so perfect for a cheat day, Sunday is quiet at this point.

My new goal with life long diets in general is to stay below 100kgs in the future. I know I'm still 1-1.5 kgs off that now, which is good because it still gives me something to achieve. And even though I'm loosening the diet rules a little, I think some common sense will keep my weight below that point.

I will try this out anyway, and see how it goes.