[One Small Bowl] Does It Fit?

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i took note yesterday: In the film sabotage, a small boy is petting a pigeon and remarking how fat he is. The woman next to him says " you'd be fat too if you ate corn and bread all day " . lol BG was 102 this morning. Husband reminded me that it took 2 weeks last December to get my BG's back down after leaving ketosis in the early part of December. It is really humbling to realize that the body doesn't recover as quickly as it use to. May be tomorrow I will hit under 100 and work my way back to the 80's. Meals yesterday: 6am bowl: scrambled eggs in butter with a dash of cream 9am bowl: liver pate (1/3 bowl) 12pm bowl: ground beef, cabbage, onion, bell pepper 5pm bowl: ground beef, cabbage, onion, bell pepper 11pm bowl: liver pate (1/3 bowl) Liquids: cup of coffee with cream (forgot the coconut oil) 1/2 gallon of water coconut oil with cocoa and stevia about 3T (yummy!) cup of coffee with cream I seem to be the hungriest in the morning. A sharp hunger when I wake up. Then again around 9-10 am. After that, I am not as hungry and eat mostly to break up the day. I am moving more into eating when I get the notion to, and not by the clock or mealtime. This will be short lived I think, I will have to see how it goes at my daughter's house whether I can keep this up or not. With all the children, schedules may work better than intuition. But it is making me think that I could go longer on such a small bowl of food if I just let it happen naturally, without thinking too much on it. lol. I notice my thoughts turn to food more at the beginning and the end of the day. I haven't lost any more weight so far, but I aim to get out of the house today and hopefully get some much needed walking to refresh my housebound spirit. Fingers crossed that I get the commission done today and can hit the post office by this afternoon. I need groceries, I need walking....I especially need a change of scenery! I had to smile this morning. I was hungry, I had 3 eggs left in the carton. So I think, I WANT 3 eggs instead of my usual two. This was a mind decision, not a body one. I scramble up 3 eggs (with a slight mental justification that, hey, I am not making any bacon to go with it) (lol..????) and as it cooked up, I suddenly realize that the 3 egg mass was not going to fit in my bowl. lol. So now what? A perfect example of the differences between mind-hunger and body-hunger. My mind always thinks it knows the right amount of food I want to eat, so different that what I need to eat. I took the spatula and cut a precise 2/3 piece of the omelet and it fit with perfection into the bowl. The last bit when into a container and into the fridge. I will simply add it to another meal of some sort. I would have never done this in the past. What, a few more bites? What the heck, I would have just eaten it. I let my mind soak up the idea, that if I am still hungry, if I still " want " it, I can certainly have it. I reassured myself that it makes no difference when I eat it, now or later. What is the most important, is whether the food I put into my bowl satisfied me, not the amount. It did. In fact, until I started writing here in my journal, I had already forgotten the incident. Interesting. --

Posted By One Small Bowl to One Small Bowl at 3/31/2011 06:59:00 AM