Showing posts with label successful weight loss strategy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label successful weight loss strategy. Show all posts

Friday, February 28, 2020

WENT TO BED HUNGRY - BUT LET ME EXPLAIN

Typical conversation I have had all my life:
Question: Are you hungry?
Response: I could eat.

Yes, one can 'always' eat... I think the only times in my life I have felt that I could not eat were literally the few times in my life I have dined at a buffett brought myself  almost to the point of puking.  Other than that extreme situation - every other moment in my life - I have been 'hungry.'

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sidebar: true story    Once year not so long ago for my birthday went to all-you-can-eat sushi.  I always get my 'moneys worth' at places like this.  I ate a bit too much too fast and had to run to the bathroom with the desire to puke.  I didn't, but after a few minutes the sick feeling left me and I was able to continue eating.  Was I still hungry?  Uh...no.... But why should a lack of hunger stop a fat pig from eating?
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Of course, this is moronic.  I have never denied being a moron when it comes to food.
For example, last night, after a very slim dinner of a Reduced Fat Turkey Bacon sandwich at Starbucks eaten around 5:30PM, I found myself 'hungry' when I pulled into the town where my hotel was at 8PM.

I kinda asked myself: Am I hungry?
My inner response: Of course, I was.

But I chose to get past the feeling, I had a large glass of water in my hotel, and I focused on doing something else and not thinking about food.  When I woke up on Friday morning, did I rush down to breakfast to finally feed my 'starving self?'  Of course not.  I was not 'starving' the night before.  I did not wake up starving.  I feel a bit hungry.  But this hunger is likely real.  So enough typing... time to go downstairs from my hotel room and grab some breakfast. I'm hungry.

See you tomorrow!


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Sunday, February 16, 2020

ON THE PROGRAM FOR A MONTH AND A HALF

It is now the end of the day, February 15.
I have not swayed from my course.
I have continued to eat well for 1.5 months.
This is a bit of an accomplishment.
Even this short time represents 1/8th of year.
As long as I continue... I will see my weight continue to drop.
Unlike past 'health binges' this has been a far more sustainable plan.
In the past I consumed 1000 calories per day. 
It is true that my weight dropped faster - but when I ended that plan, I had not practiced safe eating.
This time, I am eating well.  I am not starving myself. 
And there is not really a plan to jettison...
I am trying (again) to get into the habit of simply eating well.
Someday, and I don't know when, I will have a cookie and maybe a chocolate bar...
But that day should not come soon.


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I have stayed 'on program' for 1.5 months... That is 1/8th of a year.  I just need to keep on doing  what I am doing.



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