Making progress

Okay, so I have some bad news... I broke down on Monday and ate wheat. It was pizza night at our house and we bought out pizza from my favorite pizza place. Do I consider myself a failure? Absolutely not. Just because I broke down once doesn't mean I didn't improve at all. You see, I only ate wheat for one meal out of the day and the next day I didn't eat any wheat at all. So in four days I only ate wheat once at one meal compared to most of my life where I ate wheat everyday for every meal and then dessert. It's like someone saying they have a goal of losing 30 pounds in 6 months and they only end up losing 20 pounds. Did they fail? No, they're much better off than if they didn't try. Same here. Anyways, I'm still doing this.
So here's a little more about me and why I'm doing this. I'm an average sized person, not skinny but not fat. I'm a size medium on everything. I don't have a desire to be rail thin and unhealthy but I've wanted to lose just a little bit of weight for awhile, say 5 to 10 pounds. But I can never seem to lose it no matter how much I exercise. I haven't tampered around too much with my diet because I felt that I had a healthy diet for the most part but now I'm starting to see that if you don't got a good diet, exercise can only help so much. So I'm trying to find a good diet. However, I'm not doing this without educating myself during this journey. I've been reading up on why wheat is supposedly not good. I think i'm keeping a healthy dose of skepticism because I know data can be misinterpreted or construed to get the desired results if somebody is determined to believe in something. But I am still keeping an open mind by actually doing this experiment. The book I'm reading is called "Wheat Belly" and I'll be sharing some of the stuff i'm learning from it in my later posts. Till then.