Celebrate Good Times, Come on!

I lost 4 Ibs! Therefore I weigh 275 and I have 131 to lose - hurrah! I realise the first week is a bit early to be celebrating this much but considering I'm only concentrating on the food portion of losing weight and not the excercise, I'm really surprised and happy with the result. To be fair, also, I weighed myself at a different time of day (before was about 5 in the morning - I don't think I could replicate that now) but I think I've still lost some weight despite that. What a good start to get off to! Here's a few things I've learnt this week:

• Having someone else doing the same diet (he's doing it as well after my own request) really helps.
• Doing a flexible diet where you can eat what you like in moderation is awesome!
• It's also not as difficult as I thought (my final realisation in this list is the main reason for this).
• Acceptance is key. I'm gonna eat rubbish and eat too much sometimes. But if I can accept it and carry on and not beat myself up for it, it's not as difficult as it could be (like last night when I ate one too many cupcakes. I don't care, I really bloody enjoyed it and I'd worked hard on this all wekk so I think I deserved it).
• One tiny cupcake is almost the same amount of calories as a massive bag of Sainsbury's own Cinema-Style popcorn! I think I'll stick to the popcorn in future.
• It's all my choice.

That last one is the main, clearing, identifier in my mind. It is absolutely my choice what I eat and how much excercise I do. Like my doctor said, it's my choice to take my anti-depressant tablets or not. But equally, I'm the one who has to live with the consequences of that. I have to live with being fat, I have to live with being unhappy, I have to live with being jobless. No one else. Or I could choose to do something about it. And I have. I've chosen to eat less and more healthily. I'm choosing to take the tablets that'll help me deal with things better. I haven't yet chosen to look for a job because I've chosen to deal with the above things first.

P.S. I also just chose to eat another cupcake. I told him to move them so I didn't choose to eat any more haha!