Twenty days in. Sometimes it feels like I’ve been doing this awhile. Sometimes it seems like it’s gone by pretty fast so far. Right now it feels a bit more like the latter, and that before I know it I’ll be at the end of the first month. I’m 2/9 of the way through this, that’s pretty significant.

I will say, the closer I get to this 30 day mark, when I am allowed to have a cheat day, the more I feel like I really won’t need it. I think I’d really like to be able to say I did the whole 90 days without any cheats, in fact. Now, I won’t change my rules or my commitments until after this 90 day period is over, but, the cheat days were always optional with the hope that I might not use them.

I’ve already started to think about what I might do after the 90 days have passed though. For one, I think in the short term, I might continue this a bit longer. I’m thinking maybe take it through Thanksgiving- that being the first day I’ll eat off diet. I’m looking forward to those mashed potatoes. Beyond that, it will somewhat depend on where I stand weight / health-wise. But, I do need to make sure that I eat differently in the future than the method of eating which got me here. I’m still a few pounds over the weight I told myself I’d never let myself be again several years ago. I never got back to my heaviest weight – but I let myself get too close to that before I got serious about this again.

So, the longer-term plan will be one of two things. 1- I could just follow the rules for keto. There’s a lot of things I could eat on keto that I’m not letting myself eat right now. Cheese being the one I most want to have. But, there are definite downsides to keto… with no cheat days, that means beer is basically out. Speaking of, 20 days is probably the longest I’ve gone without a beer in years. Anyway, 2- I could do slow carb again. Now, slow carb would also introduce a lot of things that I am not letting myself have currently. And on top of that, one day a week I could indulge in whatever I want. Whichever one I chose, it probably wouldn’t be a forever thing, but it would be a gradual step toward trying to find what my new normal will be.

Anyway, I won’t go on about anything the happened today – turns out I had plenty so say today.

Twenty-One tomorrow!