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Weight Loss Help, Tooth Brushes and 21 Days to a New Habit

Every 2 weeks we splurge and have a cleaning lady come in to do heavier cleaning. While cleaning my bathroom time she moved my toothbrush holder an entire 18" to the right. A near crisis - something was different! Something was moved! My routine had been interfered with!

Even my wife (who never uses my side of the vanity, a well established protocol) noticed that my toothbrush was in a new location and thought it odd - was something wrong she asked?

Wrong? Well not wrong, but different. (change) Why did I move the toothbrush holder to the other side of the sink, she asked. "I didn't", replying like a 4 year caught with her hand in the cookie jar! (guilt) Somebody else did. (blame) "Well, if you didn't do it why don't you just move it back?", she inquired. (personal responsibility)

I laughed myself silly every-time I reached for my toothbrush in its "old" location. What started out as a slight annoyance quickly became a game with myself to see how long it would take me to get used to doing "IT" a different way. After all I am a bright, mature (ouch) man, who's opened minded and not stuck in my ways. (yeah, right)
Piece of cake I thought to myself. (food reference) Something so small, so insignificant and it still took me 13 days to break the old habit and establish a new one. It only took me 60% of the time that the "experts" said it would take me to create a new habit.

Congratulations! Call the press, put me on the cover of Time or Men's Health Magazine, nominate me for Man of the Year. What an accomplishment! (sarcasm)

But wait! How was I doing with the BIG changes in habits that I'm needing to make in order to adjust to my life as a diabetic. An overweight diabetic. (sigh) -An overweight diabetic who would rather eat a bowl of sugar (carbs) than eat a filet mignon (protein).

At 55 years old I needed to change my sedentary, carbohydrate filled lifestyle. I knew something was not quite right even before my doctor gave me the "news" and prescribed medication. I'd have a bowl of ice cream (reduced sugar so I could eat twice as much) in the evening before bed, and maybe wake up at 2:00 am or so for just a quick snack of peanut butter and jelly (reduced sugar, no bread needed -just a spoon) and surprisingly when I woke up in the morning I'd be feeling all fuzzy and groggy. Not well rested at all and sometimes it even felt like I was well - even Hungover.

Hungover. What? I didn't drink alcohol last night. But how can I feel so bad? Why does it feel so much like the morning after a college frat party? Carbohydrates.

I had a hangover alright. From a self-induced carbo-charged, sugar-laced feeding frenzy the night before that not only gave me a serious Buzz but sent my sugar levels to over 250! (normal is 100) I'd feel like crap.

Since, I'd eaten my "snack" at 2:00 am, I was never hungry in the morning. My typical breakfast would be coffee with canned whipped cream (reduced fat). Lunch, I would skip because I was so busy with work - I could grab a quick snack later. (a Snicker's candy bar has nuts so it must be healthy). But by dinner, man o' man was I ravenous!

Well, all the "diet" books say that to maintain my weight I should eat 2,200 calories a day. Mmmmm. Coffee with reduced fat whipped cream - 10 calories. Small Snicker's (with nuts) 400 calories.

Alright, I still have 1790 calories to eat - I better get busy. (justification) And since I couldn't possibly eat 1,790 at dinner (at times I made a good run at it) I'd get to spread it all out over the evening. (grazing)

If I timed it right my grazing would lead me to that double helping of ice cream (reduced fat - no sugar added) to send me off to dreamland with a full stomach.

Habits. They're neither good nor bad. Some are healthy. Some are not. I hope to have more good habits than bad. (optimistic) It takes 21 days to either break a habit or establish a new one.

21 days without an ice cream "night cap". Geez, you'd think I could start with a smaller goal - like world peace or inter-galactic space travel.

Michael

P.S. My wife is supporting me in my change of lifestyle habits. In an effort to inspire and motivate me she printed this quote out and taped it to my mirror (just above my toothbrush holder)

Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks. ~Author Unknown!

Michael P. Williams. A budding author, a humorist, self-declared health nut, lover of wife, daughters, family & friends, guitar-playing, blues-loving Interpreneur. Evangelist for The Diet Solution Program as created by Isabel de los Rios. Learn more: http://www.whydietsdontwork.net. Get the Free Video ~ Do Carbs Make You Fat. You may be surprised about what you hear from Isabel!

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