Decisions decisions....

So it's Friday.  I've made it through 4 days of "real" calorie counting and food restriction.

I used to think that deciding to diet was just in making a decision.  You decided you were going to diet and exercise and life was better for you from that point.  I'd never actually fully committed to that choice.  This time I have.

I've realized it isn't just a choice, one decision.  It's a hundred choices and decisions a hundred times a day.  It's a choice and a decision every time you look at a menu, at every meal and at every craving or oppurtunity where food is available.  You don't just tell  yourself once, you tell yourself over and over and over again through out the day and through out the week.   You need to have your goal at the top of your mind at every minute of every day.

I have way more respect right now for people who have quit smoking.  That is a choice they made one day and a decision they have been faced with a hundred times a day since.  They have the added difficulty of it actually being an addicition and still they have been able to turn their back on it.

I think there are some food addictions.  I think there is also an emotional mental addicition to food.  However, hunger is still hunger and I can choose to fill it with a healtheir alternative containing less calories rather than my normal diet.   I am still able to satisfy myself in a way smokers can not. My hat is off to anyone who has made that choice and has succeeded.