Eliana, I read about your idea to go a year on plan, and not look at that scale, except occasionally at the doc's office. While I do depend on my scale, I LOVE your plan. As my weight loss has been very slow, (16 pounds since last December) I have come to the realization that I am making permanent changes, that this way of eating will be my life. (LIke Jersey Girl, I plan to stay on Atkins, on the higher rungs of the carb ladder as time goes on).
It makes me think about a year long commitment, and other one year plans.
Virtually every grief counsellor I know suggests that after being widowed or divorced, you take a year before starting new relationships. A year of anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, getting used to being single again, before you start coupling up.
For us, this makes sense too. If we are changing our way-of-eating to something healthy and sustainable, planning to go through a whole year of ups and downs, seasonal changes, holidays, birthdays etc. is a great plan to teach us to handle each of these things and occasions in a healthy sustainable way.
I am currently on Summer holidays, and up here in cottage country we have a great restaurant that makes the best blueberry pie I have ever had. SO, I decided that while we are here, we would have one supper out, and I would have one piece of pie. Just one, didn't bring the pie home. Yes, I can enjoy a slice of pie once a year. I don't have to go eery day for more. I don't have to have ice cream every day just because I'm on holiday. ANyhow, that was my plan. So far, its working. I had a bump of carbs that day, but have been following plan the rest of the time, and not really having problems with it.
thanks for the suggestion Eliana. BTW, how long has it been for you, and how are you doing with your plan?