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!
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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