Friday, January 20, 2012

CITY Study and my mantra 'I am on a diet starting Monday'

As a side task to the Engine 2 diet I was in the process of going through a weight loss study called the CITY Study (http://www.dukecitystudy.org/). Today was the day where I would find out what group I was in.
1. Cell phone intervention group (a group where you get a cell phone paid for you and applications to help you lose weight)
2. Personal Contact Group (a group where there were scheduled group sessions to get information that the cell phone application would have given you, but you recieved them face to face and not in a support group setting)
3. The Control Group - you get nothing other than having semi-annual checkups and at the end of the 24 month study, would receive a weight loss coach.

Unfortunately I was selected for the 'Control Group'. I can say I was alittle worried is I were to be selected to one of the other groups as the 'Engine 2 Diet' might have thrown off their results for this CITY cell phone application.

I 'celebrated' this news by going to Little Caesars and purchasing one of their $5 quick and easy take out pizzas. Again, this is one of the things that is wrong with America. The easy of fast food and the temptations. While I realized that this could be one of my last chances to get a pizza which is one of my most favorite foods in the world, I do also realize I am treating this Engine 2 diet as an excuse to eat poorly.

My mantra has always been 'my diet will start on Monday' which always allowed me to eat poorly on the weekends. While this diet technically does start on Monday (another appeal to the challenge), I am going to start making better choices starting Sunday this time ;-)

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