Day 12 - Learning to Feel Hunger
I weighed myself this morning and lost another 1/2 a pound. Every little bit helps.
Realized this morning I am actually learning and changing things about myself...
On the Weight Watcher's plan I am doing, hunger is the key issue. They give you a scale of 1-5 to gauge how hungry you are, and when to start eating and when to stop eating. Since in the
past, I kept eating all the time regardless of whether or not I was full. So this is a transition. Like Saturday Night we went out to have Mexican food, and I actually pushed my plate away with food still on it!! My food was delicious and in the past I would have said "I'm full but this is so good I can't stop eating it." to now learning to say to myself "Your hunger has ended. You are full, stop eating and push the plate away."This morning I came in and everyone is eating stuff left from the Board meeting last night, and I wanted to eat because everyone else was eating, but I wasn't hungry, so I went back to my desk. A few minutes ago, my stomach started growling and Okay - I'm registering actual physical symptoms on the hunger scale, so now I can eat. So I went to the fridge and got myself some fat free cottage cheese and mixed it with some fat free yogurt and fruit. Yum. Completely bypassed the buffet table of cookies that is set up.
Every time I make the right choice, I get so happy with myself, but I am mentally rehearsing (a thing from class) this weekend when I go to the Ranger conference and they are selling Krispy
Kremes and I am hungry and I don't have my cottage cheese in the fridge. How will I handle it? How can I avoid being in that position? and I realize I don't have to make that choice once, but keep making that choice every day until I hit my goal weight. I am not going to beat myself up if I choose to have a donut this weekend, but by the same token, I have at least thought it out and said "Buy some Weight Watcher's Muffins or bars and take them in your purse." so I have an escape route should I choose to use it. That's progress for me.
posted by Tamilu at 11:49 AM
1 Comments:
I might be the only one in the world, but I'm not actually a big fan of those Krispy Kreme donuts. I swear! I the texture, so like them just fine when they are plain. But it's that glaze that I don't like. It just taste funny to me. And not a good funny. So I always ask for a plain one. Although I'm sure I would like it if they'd make one dipped in cinammon sugar. I think I remember seing those on their Web site, but they never have them at the Krispy Kreme around here.
Anyhoo... Look at me, writing a short novel about donuts. LOL!
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