I am just SO EXCITED! Day 6 of the summer diet

and I get to step on the scale at the doctor’s office to see just how much my hard work will be rewarded! I feel better–I feel thin. I have flexed and posed and felt my flatter stomach all week long waiting for this moment. I take off my flip flops and step triumphantly on the scale, staring straight ahead of me while the numbers flip around. I don’t like to watch the numbers flip around–it is more suspenseful for me than when the scale messes with the contestants on The Biggest Loser! I take a deep breath and stare down near my bright pink painted toe nails. Um–weird. I step off the scale for a second and then back on, this time watching the numbers climb to make sure the scale is not broken or some how reacting to some magnetic pull I must have in my legs that was not previously in my body before- I must have had some sort of supplement this week that could have done that–after all do we REALLY know what is in that brown colored capsule?

The scale stops at preciously the same spot it had stopped just moments before–only 2 pounds less than what it had showed me last week. What the HELL!?!? I should have lost 10lbs this week! This is so unreasonable! I ate PERFECTLY for 6 whole days now and THIS is all I have lost??

Do you ever feel like that? You diet for a week or two and you cannot understand why the fat did not fall off your body as fast as the girl at the drive through can offer us fries with our order. Again, we feel like Veruca Salt as we demand our goose who can lay a golden egg. Only we don’t want a golden egg–we want that damn magic pill! We, society as a whole, is so accustomed to having what we want when we want it that we have become lazy and skewed to the aspect of hard work and slow results equal long term success.

Now, if I had more than 20lbs to lose I would have seen a larger jump on the scale this week–I know this. I mean I lost 10% of my goal already–sweet! Yet for some reason even I still think that if I diet for 6 days it will undue the larger portions I consumed for 6 months time. Like a savings account with incredible interest rate. I deposit 6 days worth of lower calorie meals and expect my money to be able to by me a nice boat by the end of the week. Imagine going to the bank and complaining about the lack of accrued interest on our savings account after only 6 days–6 weeks–hell even 6 months! Loan payments–we cannot pay a loan off in 6 payments–we take years to pay off loans. Sure we hate it and grumble each time we write the check, seal the envelope and lick the stamp, month after month. However, isn’t there a sense of satisfaction behind each payment? Each step closer to owning our own home, or vehicle or college degree

Think of your diet as a loan you are paying off. You were loaned higher calorie meals, loaned lazy nights in front of the TV and now it is time to start paying off that debt you created. Each day is a payment made, but you know the debt is bigger than a week–it may be years worth of work. I have been at this for almost 6 years myself. Of course each winter I add muscle to my body intentionally and then shed off the added fat I gain on that bulk–but it is still a loan I take out.

Next week I am hoping for another 2 pounds gone–I will have this debt paid off before August! WOOT!

I look forward to paying it off and enjoying the skinny scene again for a while