I’m not going to eat between meals and I’m not going to take seconds.  AND I’ll walk at least 3 mile, take my fiber supplement and drink 2 liter of water.

I also weighed myself today.  I don’t know if it was magic or Mister but, the scale re-appeared yesterday afternoon. So how could I resist? It was pretty much all good news — I weigh almost exactly (actually a little less than) what I weighed the last time I did this.  And that was sometime before Thanksgiving!

So I guess enough of my Eat4Today goals powered my eating through the holiday and the terrible-horrible-no-good-winter that my weight DIDN’T balloon out of control after all.

Here’s the thing.  I started this ‘don’t eat between means & don’t take seconds & walk at least 3 mile & drink 2 liters of water’ thing in July of 2005.  And by January 2006 when I started this blog, I’d lost 30 pounds — and, all these years later, I’ve never gained back that 30 pounds.

(I hope this isn’t too much information) My weight since starting Eat4Today HAS fluctuated pretty dramatically & that’s kind of got me down.  But, I think it’s a pretty fantastic feat that after nearly 5 years, I haven’t come close to regaining all the weight I lost. In the past – without the nagging reminder to NOT eat between meals & not take seconds – I would have regained all that weight AND more.  And more.

That’s the difference a rule makes.