Reboot Day 9 Weight: 175.4 Temp: 98.2

Ugh! Do you see that number up there??? It went UP! That's sad, sad news. I thought with me not eating any solid food yesterday it would have went down. I was really struggling yesterday with not caving. I feel a little more determined today to not cave just to make those numbers start on the decline again. I felt like I was watching porn last night on the Food Network. My mouth was watering for some of the burgers and sandwiches featured on Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives. Maybe I gained because I was envisioning myself eating those cheesy, greasy, foods. Dieting, it seems to me, is a lot of mind over matter. My roommate thinks that I should have a cheat day somewhere in the middle as a reward of some kind but I worry that if I cheat once, I'd be like an addict getting a taste of their favoirte drug of choice. In a way, food has become somewhat of an addiction in America and I don't think that we've come to realize that as a nation just yet. What makes it harder is being outside around lunchtime and smelling the delicious foods. When I came home last night there was speghetti on the stove. It was so difficult to not want to just start devouring the food. I've never even been a huge fan for speghetti but at that moment I was it's number one groupie. I just keep telling myself, "Just get through this one week. One week. That's all it is. If you can get through this one, you'll be able to do the next one." I know at the end of this week I'll have reached my halfway point. I just hope I'll be strong until then.