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Walking the Walk: The verdict

Posted on Oct 7th 2008 8:00AM by Bethany Sanders
It's time to decide -- is this a healthy habit that can be realistically worked into day-to-day life?

  • Piece of cake! I can definitely work this into my daily routine.
  • Not my cup of tea. This is harder than I imagined. Still, I plan to stick with it and do my best.
  • Nuts! This seems nearly impossible to keep up. But I'll definitely do it whenever possible.

Counting calories is not my cup of tea. If I wasn't working so hard at weight loss, I wouldn't do it. It's tedious and boring, honestly. BUT, and this is a pretty big but, it definitely helped me stay on track this week. Not only was I able to stick to my goal and lose 2.5 pounds(!), but it also taught me about making good food choices. I know which foods give me more volume for fewer calories, and by eyeballing my portions (I'm not a measure-your-food kind of girl), I'm learning more about appropriate portion sizes.

So until I hit my goal weight, I'll be counting calories. But I suspect that as time goes on, it will be far more of a mental thing and less look-it-up and write it down tactic.

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