Day four – Another Day, Another Pound

Today was a repeat of yesterday in the sense that my hunger was virtually non existent. I would even take it a step above and say it was even less today than yesterday. My meals of the day where fruit in the morning, a small salad in the afternoon, some dates afterwards( which I usually consider a treat and eat a ton but today only had about four dates when I didn’t have the urge to eat anymore, this is unusual) and than for dinner a medium salad. The dinner salad was a shock for me, because in the last three days, I’ve been eating a huge salad, but today I just wasn’t very hungry.

Also, the metal workout I have been giving myself has paid off today. I didn’t have as many temptations or cravings at all. It was quite refreshing. I even spent the day out in the street, where there was a saturation of food ads and restaurants. I quickly was able to redirect my mind away from them. I have found something that is helping me do this. I have decided to get a dog. And with the excitement of this new member of my family, I have been spending quite a bit of time thinking about the dog I am going to get and what I will do with it. So, there has been a lot less time focused on food, which normally would consume my thoughts. It seems since I am not able to get pleasure from eating, I have my mind focused on how to replace food with other things . This is kind of interesting in the fact that I am actually getting into more activities and relationships I would of not truly thought to be in before. It’s a quest to replace the pleasure of eating with other things that is making my life more interesting, colorful, and fulfilling. My food addiction was taking away from my ability to live fully. It took away my energy, it took away my thoughts, and it made me less likely to venture into new activities. You don’t truly become aware of how severe this is until you go through this type of detox.

One thing I would like to bring up is that yesterday I noticed that there are many young teenagers who are overweight. The reason I noticed this was because I went to sign up for some community courses at a high school and looked at the students that where there and was in shock that most where over weight. This was not the case when I went to school about 20 years ago. The overweight students where the exception, now they are the norm. It saddens me. There truly is an epidemic in this country with obesity. I hope that more people become aware of this and seek the truth as to why this is so.

My weight today is: 124.6 lbs.