Day Eight

I did three sets of eight kinds of crunches at the gym, weight-lifted, and did sixty-eight minutes on the elliptical.  I am still trying to get up to ninety minutes from when I hurt my knee and have never made it that far. Sometimes my knees get stiff if I overdo it, so I have to work up gradually, and, honestly, sometimes I have not had the time to do much for a while, so then I start building from a lower number again.  I think it has been a long time since I did sixty-eight minutes.  I was very tired afterward, and, having not eaten a real dinner the night before, VERY hungry.

I came home to shower and felt ravenous.  Like, if a chocolate cake had been before me at that moment, who knows?

I showered and weighed--down two pounds from yesterday--seven in all.  Not at all bad for one week's effort.  And then I drank a little water, went downstairs to bring the rest of the dyed eggs up from the overflow refrigerator, and prepared two of those.  I also made some oatmeal with blueberries and cream in it.  Not the store-bought packets with SUGAR and flecks of fruit in them, but real honest-to-goodness whole oats, real heavy cream, and real blueberries.  Try it.  If you let it simmer a little while, the berries get big and juicy like they are going to burst open.  One of the things I try to do is eat food that is in its natural state, and not processed.  I am not a fanatic, but, let's face it--a whole egg or tomato or real strawberry is going to be much better for you than something with twenty ingredients you cannot even pronounce. I try to eat whole grains instead of white rice or white flour whenever possible.

I had more leftover spaghetti for lunch.  I am not going hungry.  I am just eating good foods in reasonable amounts.  I am honoring my needs by eating the right things when I am hungry.  I am probably eating between five and eight times a day, in small portions.  Just not overeating, and just not eating sugar.  It's actually not that hard, and I am no longer questioning all the time whether or not I can really do this.  I AM doing it!

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