100th Post (or, All or Nothing)

Yes, this is my 100th post since I started Something to Lose nearly a year ago. And on this momentus occasion, I'm returning to a theme I discussed in my entry from a couple of weeks ago -- the all-or-nothing approach I have toward many things in life, but most particularly diet and exercise and health.

I've struggled with that attitude over the past week. As I mentioned previously, I went with the "all" approach and scheduled every single meal I was going to have over the past week. I placed three separate orders (with Diet Gourmet, Dishalicious, and Greenling) & planned a trip to the grocery store so every meal last week would be ready and waiting with a minimun of effort on my part.

As usual, life got in the way. My Greenling delivery on Friday was missing some of the items I had ordered (nothing untoward going on; they simply didn't have some of the items and credited my account). I had planned my grocery store trip for Monday, but ended up having some kind of stomach bug and stayed in bed almost all day. Then because of Memorial Day, my Diet Gourmet ordered was delivered Tuesday afternoon instead of Monday afternoon.

So ... my beautiful schedule was thrown all out of whack. Some meals I didn't have at all, other meals were missing certain parts, some meals were a day or two later than I had scheduled.

I tried my best to adapt and not go with the "nothing" approach of "Screw this, I'm ordering a pizza!" I would put my success rate at about 75%. I still ate most meals in a complete & healthy way with the food I did have. On two occasions I just skipped a meal (not the best thing to do I know) & and on two occasions I did eat something unhealthy instead. So that's 4 out of 21, which is actually about an 81% success rate. I'm moderately happy with that.

The same issues are already popping up for this week as Dishalicious has decided to take the week off from delivery, but again, I'm going to try to adapt. I do need to learn how to do that!

So there you have it -- I'll report more on how this is working as the weeks progress. I do think Dishalicious is going to be a help to me because it is pretty good food that is well-balanced & healthy, but not really diet food. That makes it much easier for me.