Evaluating weight loss progress

This week I lost 0.2kgs, taking me back down to 74.4, where I was two weeks ago. That’s not the fantastic result I was looking for this week, so it’s time to evaluate my progress.

Things that I’ve been doing wrong:

• I eat figs off the tree in my backyard and don’t count them
• I lose the plot on the weekend and tell myself that it’s OK because I can still lose weight just being good during the week.
• I nibble little bits of cheese in the evening and don’t count it - (I’ve fixed that this week by buying individually wrapped portions instead of a block)
• I eat biscuits out of my desk drawer at work - (I’ve fixed that by asking a colleague to keep them in her desk until I need them for a planned snack)
• I’ve been drinking more than I need to on the weekends.
• I haven’t been weighing my portions.

Things I’m doing right

• I’ve been very consistent with planning my week and sticking to my planned meals.
• I’ve been reasonably consistant with my exercise.
• I’ve been researching new ways to build strategies to help me resist unplanned eating.

Overall, I think what’s going on is that when I first started dieting, I could get away with a few little cheats. But now I’ve reached a point where my weight is lower and I need to be more careful and eliminate those little cheats if I want to continue to lose weight and not plateau.