BIG ONE!!

Today I hit my first milestone.  I hit the 25 pound loss!  I have lost 25 pounds in two months.  It may not sound like much when I have so much to lose, but is is a tremendous achievement for me.

This blog will be all about food.  Simply because I love food.  One of the hardest things to change is a habit. It can be done and I know that now.  I have way too many bad habits, but I have started to put an end to many of them.

I love food.  All fat people love food.  Even skinny people love food but they have learned how to eat what they love without becoming a weight watchers before picture.  The problem with me is that I don't have that gene or discipline or whatever you want to call it that can be satisfied with one bite of something. I have friends that do that. They eat one bite and are completely ok with not eating the rest.  One bite for me is just the start of the race to the finish.

But what I want to speak to today is how I am eating right now that has enabled me to lose twenty-five pounds.  I have heard for years that eating 6-8 small meals a day is the way to weight loss.  I just couldn't understand, my brain could not comprehend, how that works. How could eating 8 times a day make you lose weight?  Then suddenly, it hit me.  I looked at what I was eating and split it up into small meals.  I ate my breakfast at 8 and 10.  Then my lunch at 12 and 2 or some sort of fruit if my lunch wasn't big enough to make two small meals.  Then dinner around 5 and I'd finish with the rest of the dinner at 7 or another piece of fruit.  In between the two dinner meals I'd do my cardio.   Suddenly, I was losing weight.  It was slow but as I started ramping up the cardio to 30 minutes it went faster.  What I slowly began to realize was that I was pretty much full all day.  I began to notice that what I used to eat, I could no longer eat.  My portions were getting smaller simply because I just couldn't eat all that food any more.  I had become one of THOSE people. "Oh, no I can't eat that much!"  "Can someone split this with me, I can't eat it all."  My brain was turning me into a skinny person.

How had I not known this all along?  I won't say it has been easy; but my tastes are changing.  I am changing.  I am learning that I can still eat a lot of what I want.  I am learning how to cook differently and eat differently.    I have a lot still to learn, but each day is one more day that I am getting closer to being, physically, who I want to be.

Next blog I will talk about how wonderful vegetarian meals are.  I'm not a vegetarian by any means, but I have learned how much I love eating vegetables.

See you next time!

Diva