I took another break from journalling yesterday and just ate according to what my body seemed to want. That included a piece of cheese mid-morning and peanut butter on crackers mid-afternoon. I would normally have eaten an orange or a banana at those times but I went with what I wanted rather than what I “should have”. Permission to not be perfect rules during hormone week.
This morning, I decided to journal it all in retrospect and found that, by listening to my body, I ate smaller portions more frequently and ended up eating just within the weight loss range. I ate only 78% of my 5-a-day fruit and veg but other than that I was really pleased with the outcome.
Now – if my house had had any junk food at all, the outcome would have been different. But I suppose that’s another measure of how far we’ve come in our family eating habits. There was a time when, after dinner, we’d get that wicked co-dependent glint in our eyes and someone would be on a junk food run before you could say “how many points in a giant Cadbury Fruit and Nut bar?” But it didn’t even cross our minds yesterday as we snuggled down on the sofa for the evening.
Oh dear – that’s kind of depressing. It reminds of my first ever Weight Watchers leaders. And I sort of hated them. But that’s another story.
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