SO FAR SO GOOD…

I am doing this forreal! It has only been two days and I went over my limit a little bit (okay, alotto bit) yesterday but we are totally still on!!!  I jumped on that treadmill last night and I said I am doing this!!! I am still getting atleast one fruit in a day. Today I have had a banana so far, I have an apple sitting on my desk for my 3pm snack. Although I have some walnuts in the fridge at home, and I might just have to snack on those instead… Hmmm. 

I keep thinking about Thanksgiving, and how miserable I was last year. I stuffed my face and I felt horrible afterwards. Not this year. I need to learn that it’s okay to go crazy every once in a while, just not every day. I’m using little habbits I have picked up from all my "I EAT ALL I WANT AND I DON’T GAIN ANY WEIGHT FRIENDS."   We would go out to eat every once in a while and they would eat as much as I would, and they were like 10x thinner than I am!  But now that I think about it, for lunch they would have the oddest meals, like a bowl of cereal, or a pimento cheese sandwich…. Tiny meals that would make me think, "How do they get full by eating that?" Then around 3pm, while I was so sleepy because I ate so much during my lunch break, they would pop in my office asking if I wanted a "Cookie" or I would find them in the kitchen again eating Yogurt…

So really, we don’t eat to achieve that "FULL FEELING." We should be eating enough to keep our stomach satisfied until we have our next little meal, which will satisfy us until our next little meal, and so forth…

This 5 small meals a day thing is letting me guiltlessly  incorporate all my favorite foods and snacks into my daily routine. For example, I would always buy fruit and it would go bad in the fruit stand because I would have "NO CALORIES LEFT" to snack on them during the day.  Or when I wasn’t counting calories, if I thought I needed to add fruits to my diet, I would find myself "FORCING" them down because I was too full from breakfast, or too full from lunch to eat anything else.

Now I just cut my lunch and dinner in half and have room for TWO snacks. I try to make atleast one of them FRUIT.  Sometimes I will bring a couple cookies or a snack size bag of Cheezits to snack on at my desk for my PM snack.

I haven’t noticed any difference yet though. I know I just need to be patient. I decided I am not going to weight myself until November 20, 2010. Two months from today. Hopefully I can stay strong during these next few months and notice a big difference from last year’s Thansgiving Pix and this years.

All those commercials that say "Eat all you want, chocolate, pasta, pizza, and still lose weight!" are actually true… When you eat them in moderation.

You can’t eat half a pizza and expect to lose weight… If you really want some pizza, have a slice to satisfy your craving… And pair it up with a side salad to fill you up- not for the rest of the day, but for your next little meal in 3 hours…

I am really good at convincing myself that this plan will work for me, and that I will train my metabolism to work harder, and shrink my stomach since I am eating smaller portions….

But we won’t know for sure if it will work until November 20, 2010. . . 

And I am anxiously waiting for that day!!!