1 . I was confused while I was eating lunch in a restaurant the other day. I was sitting there looking at what I’d ___and wondered if anyone else could see the ___in my mind. I’m about to ___a lot of fat and wash it down with a diet soda.

What can I say? I’m trying to lose some weight. ___. I do things like that all the time, which is probably why the pounds are ___so slowly. I spent half an hour on the treadmill (跑步机) and I ___myself with potato chips. I ___that I will no longer eat them again, so I just eat a lot at this time. I make it all the way through the entire day doing everything absolutely right, and then at bedtime, “just one chip won’t ___it “turns into “where did that entire bag of potato chips go?”

Of course, I ___do well with my weight loss program, Once I put together two full weeks of eating properly and exercising ____. I was starting to feel a (an) ____. I could bend over to tie my shoes more easily. But just as it was about to become a ____. I entered a period of long, late nights filled with ____deadlines. I sat in front of my computer, eating snacks and drinking sodas to help me stay ____. Within a few days, the habit of a sensible eating and exercising was a ____.

Unfortunate but ____. I was too tired to get on the treadmill. ____, I had work to do, for which I needed all the energy I could ____. So I started skipping exercise sessions. And ____I started doing so, it became easier to skip them.

There are always reasons not to do the things that we really should do. Every reason is just another ____.