Here goes nothing...

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The crazy diet started today.

I planned for it. I kept it away from Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I made sure our house and the people in it were ready.

I treated myself to a vanilla latte on the way to work yesterday and savoured it, knowing it was my last for a while.

I bought lots of veggies and fruit that work with the diet.

I have been planning meals in my head for days.

I forgot to look at the calendar to see what else was happening.

Specifically:

• a work lunch where there is very little choice in food
• an all weekend Guide meeting with more choice, but still difficult as I’m only looking after meal preparation for one meal
• another work lunch where there is very little choice (and no option to brown bag)
• a baby shower that I’m hosting (more food choice, but really, why do I do it to myself?!?!?!)
• Hallowe’en (oh wait, no, that factored into my plan…)

The hardest part is that the first three things are on days 1, 2, 3 and 5 of the diet. The hardest days anyway. But I’ll be okay. The people at my Guide meeting are used to the crazy diet and no one seems too upset when I bring my own food. And the baby shower, well, it is just after the initial two week tough period, so while I’m still restricted on what I can eat, I’ll have many more choices than if it was tomorrow.

Nothing like making a tough challenge more challenging. But the results will be worth it. Getting rid of the fatigue makes everything else go so much better as well!