New focus

This had become a bit of a weight loss blog, but I originally started writing here to address my binge eating problem. Even though now I have gone back to about a 2,500 calorie/day diet, it’s still very important for me to follow the structure I had imposed on myself and to avoid the temptation to eat large quantities of food in one sitting. It’s entirely possible that even with the slight backslide I experienced in February, that by resuming normal eating habits around November or so I may well have set myself up for this brilliantly. For one thing, I am starting at 190 lbs instead of the 220 I was at last summer. It’s even possible that my change in diet made me more fertile.

Plain and simple, though, it was through m own carelessness that this happened, and while I’m not exactly prepared, I’m not exactly upset, either. Hubby is a bit more disoriented, but we’re getting there.

I still believe that natural family planning (which we’ve been using since 2005) is a very safe and effective way to get pregnant or avoid getting pregnant. It’s just very important that if the latter is your goal to check for ovulation signs BEFORE you wind up in the frisky, not after! And at least my knowledge of my cycle tipped me off that I could be pregnant even before a test could. In that respect, I was both pregnant and not pregnant until I got a confirmation of one thing or the other, a situation which we laughingly called Schroedinger’s Baby.

So anyhow, this blog is still about learning to eat right again. And it’s even more important now that I’ve got someone else along for the ride. My goal is to come out on the other side in even better health, and when you consider that I was eating some 6,000 calories a day up until last October, I think the odds are pretty good that I will.