Abracadabra!

For me this time is a little different.  The 40 pounds I lost this time kind of snuck up on me.  I had been creating better habits but not really paying attention.  I finally bought a scale that would work for me and the initial results were so slow I gave up again.  For a while I went back to my old habits and then gradually started controlling myself more.  I was shocked when two months later 40 pounds had disappeared.  I guess I am a magician. 

My perspective has also changed a great deal.  What I realized is I lost weight with out being straight up obnoxious about what I would eat.  On the 4th of July cookout I ate the crappy but delicious food that was their.  Just not a bunch of it.  Now I know I can't use that knowledge as a license to eat whatever whenever  but it is nice to not make what you are eating become part of the event every time.  Slow and steady.  This is going to work out just fine.  In the past it needed to be gone with a snap and I had no room to be flexible with food.