Day# 19 - Things Are Looking Down:-)

AM Timshel

Finally, I am seeing progress once again! What am I doing differently? I know, by this point you expect me to say, "nothing," however I am to disappoint you in that I have started doing something uniquely different. I went all the way back to when I first started using this method I have been calling a live-it. I realized that when I started I was not avidly consuming those extra calories that I was gathering up in my daily collection of exercises. 
That's it. 
I literally went back to the square one that began even before I began to write about my experience, and it's working! The trick of the moment is to just not let myself get below the 1200 calorie mark in Net calories, and to be really aware of not letting myself act as though I had already lost the weight. Even as I write this it sounds a bit complicated, and I'm making every effort to be a clear as possible. 
Let me try again: 

• My current calorie goal is 1640 per day.
• When I exercise for a total of 448 which I managed to do today I end up with 2088.
• Yes I could and have been feeling free to eat a total of 2088 and fully expect to lose weight.
• For the last six days I've been eating as close to the 1640 as possible.
• When I do this, at the end of the day I am left with a net of 1192
• A single almond brings my total total to 1200. 
• If I go over a little bit that's fine.
• As long as I'm not suffering to lose weight, I'm good...
• Down by six tenths of a pound today! 

Yep, I'm good!:-)  

Live Your Life Lose The Weight

Weight control is at best something that you do as a part of the way you live life. At worst it's something that you do to get rid of those extra pounds as fast as humanly possible with the knowledge that ultimately you cannot live that way following those rules, or taking those particular pills, or drinking that magic shake forever. If I Can Lose It... is all about living it, not suffering, and knowing that the way you already live is truly the way that works.