Crafts and Life

Breakfast

Lunch – Veggie Lincolnshire sausages on a hot dog roll with brown sauce

Dinner – Lentil Ragu and Wholewheat Pasta

Snacks – Marmalade sandwich

Supper – Ryvita and cheese

Drinks – 500 ml water x 1, tea with milk x 4, rose wine

Up at gone 11.00 again (albeit slightly earlier than yesterday!) so again no breakfast (need to get back into the habit of getting up and having sensible meals again), usual pint of water and tea to start the day :D, lunch was had at about 13.00 and a 2nd tea at 13.45 :D, third mug of tea at 15.30, marmalade sarnie had at 16.00 as I felt peckish! Final brew at 17.30, having wine later as it is a Bank Holiday! Hmm seriously tasty Lentil Ragu eaten (well started) at 19.10!

Weight – 22 st 5.75 lbs (I so want to get below 22 st as my first goal!)

DAY SEVENTEEN

Key Theme: HOPE

PLATEAUS/ WAITING

One of the goals of this program is to distract the chronic dieter. A major side effect of traditional dieting is a terrible preoccupation with eating and weight, do’s and don’ts. This adds to the dieter’s defeat because, coupled with chronic hunger, waiting and watching for weight loss to happen creates a restlessness and impatience. “I’m suffering, I’m struggling, and I’m following all the rules. C’mon, where’s my reward?” And the reward— weight loss— does come. And it goes. The rewards of this program are immediate although the weight loss is not. For me the next best thing to getting thin was the freedom to think about other things, even while I was still overweight. I let my body decide when to eat and how much and I just stuck with keeping the food quality consistently high. This way, I was able to concentrate on my life, my work, my family and friends.

“The secret of patience is doing something else in the meanwhile.” Apples of Gold

Food for Thought: Am I distracted?

Antonello, Jean. Naturally Thin: Lasting Weight Loss without Dieting . Heartland Book Company. Kindle Edition.