Crafts and Life

Lunch – Jacket potato with egg mayonnaise

Dinner – Veggie pasta Bolognese

Supper/snack – cheese sandwich

Drinks – No added sugar Vimto, tea with milk x 5, red wine

Weight – 22 st 6.75 lbs (yay just under the half stone – but having wine later, oops!)

Still lots of pain, need to get a full length photo taken soon as I seem to have stopped that!

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.