Today is a day of shuffling numbers and plans around.

Originally I was planning on going onto transition this coming Thursday, calculating that then I would be roughly where I want to be with the weight. But surprise, surprise, I am now already less than 1/2 pound away from the goal number! Knowing that I am having 2 trips in October, one an extended weekend with a marriage and the second marriage a normal length weekend I knew that my milk days can not be on the weekends! I had always computed that I will be doing “5 days veggies/protein, 2 days milk” and that had been my stable assumption the past few weeks. For these reasons I always thought that I will be starting this coming Thursday with transition beginning with the 5 days veggies/protein and was beginning to fear that I’ll go way too much below my goal weight because I did not want to begin transition tomorrow, Sunday, as else my future milk days would fall onto Fridays and Saturdays, just the days I will be at parties and other social gatherings.

Funny how ‘blind’ one can get to a simple solution. I can just as well begin the first transition week with milk days! So my first transition day will be Tuesday with the first milk day. Looking at the remainder of the year, having milk days being Tuesday and Wednesday fits perfectly with Thanksgiving, family birthdays and Christmas, even New Year. Next year I’ll shift it as of January 1 to be always Monday/Tuesday my milk days (as needed), as usually I do most ‘damage’ on the weekends with all the family gatherings.

Yepee! Only 3 days longer on the basic program.