After reveling in my latest weight loss quandary, I’ve realized something.  Moderation is what I am fighting against (at least that 20% of me).  My whole life has been a series of extremes and I’ve never lived in a state of moderation.  So naturally, my comfort zone is at one extreme or the other.  I think that must be why I can go for several weeks of eating very healthy and exercising very regularly and then BOOM, I let life’s circumstances bring me to a screeching halt and send me into a frenzy of binge eating.

After reading this SparkPeople article (you know how I love them), I realized that there is a lot more to do with moderation than just being in the middle of two extremes.  Moderation in terms of weight loss represents a commitment to living a healthy life, not just temporarily, but for life.  That means that the “diet” never ends and that there will never come a time that I can simply eat whatever I want for the rest of my life.  I’ve proven to myself that I cannot handle that.

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