My Diet, week 10-Summing It Up

I forgot to create this final entry due to vacation. Not really. What I was really doing was worrying about my vacation and my life, and how I would do without the "weight-loss" part of the diet. 
These were my concerns:

• Would I wolf things down?
  I did a little, especially foods I haven't had for three months, like burgers.
• Would I eat the badly combined foods that we all love so much?
  Yup, but I usually fixed the bad combining with legumes.
• Would I resume some of my bad habits?
  A few, but not the obsessive ones (peanut butter cannot live in my house).
• Would I start skipping exercise?
  Strangely, no.
• Would I gain weight?
  Yes and no---gain a pound one day, lose it the next. As long as I quickly resumed the good habits, all was fine.

I lost a total of 12 pounds. At the same time, I gained muscle. Muscle weight is heavier than fat weight, so I lost maybe 14 pounds of fat and put on a couple pounds of muscle. Even pants I bought a few weeks ago are loose on me, while the weight itself is stable. All I can assume is that being in shape compresses body parts, like my thighs. If I maintain this physical condition, I'll have to buy new pants, again. That is both annoying and thrilling.

By using the company gym, I didn't spend money for a gym membership. The convenience was definitely a factor in the frequency of my exercise. I was quite sociable in the gym, took group classes, got the teachers to show me how to tailor exercises for my body and how to use the weight equipment. I met a lot of nice people in the classes. I would certainly miss it if I stopped going, which I haven't.

Looking back, I notice that there was a point where my body made a switch from having to be nagged into exercise to actually wanting to exercise. I'd start to feel restless, which eventually registered with my brain, then I would give my body some exercise. At home, I have not put my dumbells or my exercise ball in a closet. I still use them regularly, though maybe not as vigorously. Yoga is back. I get on the scale every day, but I think sometime soon I will move that to weekly. There seem to be daily gains and losses that balance out at the end of a week. At least, that's my theory. If I'm wrong, I know what to do.

Best Things Last
One of the best things about my diet is that I now know how (and why) to control my weight. It's all here in this blog whenever that skirt starts feeling tight again.