Weight Loss Game Plan

War,travel,sports competitions,and first dates. These are all activities in which it is highly beneficial to have a "game plan". Well, going on a weight loss journey is no different. You totally need to have a game plan to guide you through the many obstacles you are going to face. For so long, my game plan was always the same whenever I would try to lose weight. I would always go to the old and faithful calorie count plan. I would gear up in my "battle gear" and set out to the weight loss war...lol. The calorie count game plan has done wonders for me in the past, but it has also done a bit of harm at the same time.Sure, I saw results, but I always felt like a slave to numbers.Counting calories made me way too obsessive about storing and calculating all the numbers involved.When I stopped counting calories, my weight kept creeping up and without the old mighty calorie count, I always felt lost. Now that I am starting a new weight loss journey, I have decided to use a new game plan. This time around I simply refuse to count calories! Wait a minute! Did I say that I am not going to count calories while trying to lose weight? Yes, that is correct. Then what am I going to do? I have been researching and thinking back to the times in my life where I was at a healthy weight, and the habits I had. Two things that kept sticking in my mind were portion control and hunger. At times in my life when I was my thinnest and in mental bliss about my eating habits, I only ate when I was hungry and I ate smaller meals. It sounds simple enough, but for so many years I have strayed away from those two simple habits. The whole calorie count slave life made me feel like I had to eat those calories whether I was hungry or not, and that one little slip up, and I was bound to be a failure. I can no longer live like this, and refuse to count another calorie. So for me, portion control and exercise are going to be key. I have portion distortion at the moment,lol, so I will be using measuring cups until I feel comfortable confident enough to know when "small is small". I would prefer putting things in measuring cups over counting calories again any day. Note: I am not against anyone that counts calories, because I know it works, and for some it is their saving grace, but as for me, I have to switch up my game plan to one that I feel I can live with. At this point in my life and at the beginning of a new start, I feel this will make me see food in a new light.