Food Log

Breakfast (9:30 AM 4/5)

• very berry yogurt
• coffee

Lunch (12:45 PM 3/6)

• french onion soup
• crusty bread w/pimento & cheese spread

Food Log

Breakfast (8:45 AM 4/5)

• Cabot rasberry yugort
• coffee

Lunch (12 PM 4/6)

• Panera french onion soup
• bread w/pimento and cheese spread (H7)

Snack (3:30 P 5/5)

• 2/3rds of greek salad
  

Dinner (7 PM 5/7)

• Steak & Cheese sandwich w/mayo & mustard

Snack (11 PM 6/7)

• Smartfood Popcorn ~ 3 handfuls
• bowl of lucky charms cereal

Stopping

Next challenge is to stop when full, or better yet recognizing what being full feels like.

Last night I know I ate too much. I was uncomfortably full. I'm a sucker for fried chicken and even after saying I need to stop, I went ahead and ate another piece. At least I was honest with myself about it.

Today I opted to once again have Panera soup and salad (full sizes of each). I ended up dunking the bread in Pimento and Cheese spread (yum, that's a hummer). After finishing off the soup and bread with Pimento and Cheese, I decided to call a halt to eating. Normally I would have eaten the salad because I had ordered it and didn't want it to go to waste. Instead I'll call myself full and store the salad for this evening or even tomorrow.

Food Log

Breakfast (10:40 AM, 3/4)

• Cabot non-fat lemon yougart
• coffee

Lunch (1 PM, 3/6)

• Panera french onion soup
• Panera Caesar salad

Dinner (7:3o PM, 4/7)

• fried chicken ~ 2 tenderloins and 1 thigh
• mashed potatos w/gravy - 2 helpings
• corn ~ 2 helpings
• 1 cup milk
• 1 nutty bar

Snack (10 P 6/6)

• coffee
• cheezits ~ 20 or so pcs
  
• smartfood popcorn ~ 10 pcs
  

Food Log

Breakfast

• none

Lunch (1:30 PM, 3)

• baked potato w/cheese, sour cream, butter & bacon
• water

Dinner (6:30 PM, 5)

• schwan's beef tips ~ 2 helpings
  
• rice ~ 2 helpings
  
• cup of 1% milk
• nutty bar

Bedtime (11:30 PM, 5)

• small glass of OJ
• NOTE: I really wanted to eat here but other than the OJ I didn't. I suspect it was related to some home network problem solving I was doing (lots of thinking) and food is a mindless outlet when I'm pondering a problem. The urge was quite strong.
  

Even When You Don't Feel Like It

I haven't written much lately other than food logs. I've been kinda down in the dumps wondering when I'll be able to see myself (my weigh rather) on the scale. My scale only shows up to 339 lbs. I've got to loose about 10 lbs before it'll show up. I'm awaiting that moment as I try to put on this new process. I've had my successes and slides (it's not failure, it is what it is) but I feel as if I am making progress despite what the scale doesn't say.

I've not been eating breakfast because frankly I'm not a breakfast person. If I'm going to be honest about my eating, I'm just not able to eat much in the morning. However, I do know that a little breakfast is a good thing so I'll wait until I get to a stage 3 or 4 hunger level (where I start to get a little queasy) before attempting to eat and then regardless of time, eat what I feel like eating - today (well yesterday actually but I couldn't find it) was lemon yogurt. I purchased a few more in case I wanted them later in the week.

And walking - I was doing really good there for a while, then we had rain and I got out of the habit. Last night I didn't really feel like walking but I did it anyway and felt the better for it. It's 50 minutes and the exercise is good for me given that I sit most of the day.

On my reading, I'm up to the part about being full and what that feels like. Similar to the hungry angle, it's an experiment to figure out what being full feels like and then what to do about it. The reading also talks about eating just for the heck of it. It's not wrong, just realize that your doing it and perhaps why. I haven't felt successful with the Hummer vs Beckoner aspect. There's too fine a line for me there. Being hungry and full is more directly measurable for me so I'll continue to do that and start rating my fullness before and after meals trying to find that sweet spot (so to speak) where I feel the need to start eating and then stop without overeating.

Food Log

Breakfast

• None

Lunch (1 PM, 5)

• 2 pcs ham
• 1 pc turkey breast
• spoonful green bean casserole
  
• spoonful au gratin potatoes
  
• dinner roll w/margerine
• broccoli cole slaw

Snack (4 PM, 6)

• P & P loaf sandwich w/american cheese, mayo/mustard
• 2 lemon squares

Dinner (9 PM, 6)

• Big Mac
• fries w/ketchup
• diet coke