[i Mouse on a Diet] The Change Over is Beginning

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I changed the name of the blog and the background for unconnected reasons. First, I use Live Writer for writing on the blogs I have because I can write when I am offline. The Live Writer imports the basic look of the blog's design template and doesn't always get it right. The Twilight theme made half my writing page dark, so I couldn't see half the text. I spent most of yesterday trying out various templates and found this one to be the easiest for me to " see " my offline writing. Then I thought seriously about the title, because I want to make some very different changes for the next year of my weight loss journey. I want to move away from using physical tools to control my eating to a better thought process to change how I think about food and my body. My husband gave me a little glass mouse in a martini glass, which delights me so, as I love to drink and I love mice. So I thought, how appropriate this little icon would be to represent my change over in both my eating and drinking and having fun while doing it. Now that Ib is home, it feels different. While we are still a bit in the " party mode " with our delayed Christmas, it is not about overeating. We eat three meals a day, we eat low carb, we move on to other things after eating, all as it should be. I was thinking last night that I could move on to a better level of eating correctly instead of sitting here feeling helpless and afraid of trusting myself to eat right. I thought about this as I went through all my diet books, all my mindful eating books, and I thought about how much of this diet stuff is already crammed into my brain and how much I yearn to know how to work it into mindful eating. I am still struck by a comment made by this woman I listen to on podcast, about mindful eating and she did not go into intuitive eating, relying food decisions on hunger alone, but by routine and comfort, by eating three meals a day.....exactly what I do anyways. She said to lose weight you learn what to eat to feel strong hunger at each meal time and to maintain weight, have a healthy normal hunger before each meal. That really struck me as true no matter how one looked at it. I should be hungry before a meal, if I am not, I am eating too much. How simple is that? I also noticed that my appetite dramatically reduced itself once I got the carbs back down. I noticed my mood improved, my sense of wellbeing. I have written about this so many times, yet it continues to amaze me and never fails to humble my thought process about eating. More than half my battle with eating is wrapped up in whatever my carbohydrate intake is. Again, it is as simple as that. Yesterday we had the leftovers I had made for our Christmas party, sausage stuffed mushrooms, garlic and black bean covered meatballs, deviled eggs with caviar, little smokies in mustard sauce and we both forgot to eat the low carb cheesecake. No kidding. Husband lit the first fire we have had in our fireplace, the whole evening was perfect and so warm and inviting. The good feelings permeated the meal, the ambiance took care of our " needs " and food was enjoyed but became secondary. I think that is what it is suppose to be about. I sensed peace within, and did not feel anxiety about how much to eat. There is a key here that I think is extremely important for me to grasp. Today, I am gathering up my mindful eating books, buying fresh keto sticks and more BG testing strips and I am going to use those tests as my guidance for what is going on in my body and use the mindfulness techniques as my guide to correct my thinking. I will lose the rest of my weight in 2011, that is about 75 more pounds. --

Posted By i Mouse to i Mouse on a Diet at 12/29/2010 07:04:00 AM