It’s like two steps forward, one back. I had a really rough week food-wise, and I think I probably gained a pound. Then today I hiked for six hours, so now I can barely walk but maybe I lost what I gained this week. Anyway, I’ve been feeling like I need a diet coach to send these updates to, but too afraid to annoy and bore my family and friends with it, so you are my diet coach, if anyone is actually reading this. I got this amazing book, the Beck Diet Solution, and have realized that it’s really not just about counting calories but about changing my habits, my way of thinking about food. And though I lost some weight in the first three weeks of the book, it takes at least two months to change a habit, and some of the old habits are sneaking back in. Lately I haven’t been binging except for two days this week… which I really have to give myself credit for nipping in the bud, and also I have to give myself credit for a lot of self-restraint, but I do have trouble overeating when I go out to dinner with friends and it’s family style dinner. Anyway, I think I can lose two pounds this week or so if I really follow the book. Including this part about planning meals… which seems really especially restrictive and antisocial. I already eat the same breakfast every day. Now I should add lunch to that too… the same thing. What I have to be careful with is if I feel I have failed at dinner, I sometimes keep eating afterward, as if I’ve given up entirely. I need to make sure not to eat after dinner.