ugg, BB, sorry to hear about
ugg, BB, sorry to hear about your bug. I had one about a month ago and it sucked.
Here's my own required weekly update. Since I don't weigh myself often, on purpose, I'll talk about my main method: MINDFUL EATING.
Though you can if you would like take "mindful" in the Buddhist sense (and occasionally I do), on a much more practical level I am simply trying to be aware of what I am eating, and eat for enjoyment and to answer hunger, rather than out of habit. And to make it even simpler, the way I try to execute this is simply by sitting down and not doing anything else while I eat.
This sounds trivial but I swear when I can do this I probably eat 30-40% less calories, and enjoy it 100% more. For example, I cannot tell you how delicious the turkey sandwiches I had yesterday were. Who knows why, but my house was blessed (and I don't say that lightly; I'm an atheist 0
) with the most fantastic tasting turkey of ALL TIME: moist, fatty, jammed with flavor, and supposedly, raised in a kindly way. I've never tasted anything like it. Sitting there with the TV and the laptop turned off, and the Wall Street Journal exiled to the other end of the table, I relished every cell of muscle and skin, and my mind got quiet and receptive. I'm not claiming anything profound happened, but I definitely got full on one sandwich (then had another one for dinner). I felt extreme gratitude for the turkey.
At other times during the last week I failed, most notably "sniping" treats as I walked by the kitchen counter, just because they were there, not because I was really hungry. But if I can force myself to sit with the treat I realize how absurd it is just to eat this thing simply because it's available.
I feel like I'm discovering a lot about eating these days, and for once I have a strategy I can live with long term. I'm curious to see how the numbers turn out at the end of this little challenge.