The first one was as I was eating a nectarine with my coffee. I realised that I had stood at the pantry door and chosen between eating an apricot or a nectarine. I hadn't chosen and deliberated between a piece of fruit and a biscuit, but two pieces of fruit! The biscuit hadn't even entered into the equation. Amazing!
The second thing was that instead of food controlling my every movement, I'm learning to control my food. I went to town on business a few days back and got home around lunch time. My tummy was grumbling and old habits would have seen me come in the door, thinking I was dying because I was hungry, enter the pantry and eat whatever I could to erase the rumbling tummy. Almost in a frenzy-type-state I'd crawl out of the binging exercise and wonder what I'd done... This day however, I'd been to the supermarket on my way home and purchased a few things and at the same time I'd purchased a pre-packaged weight watcher meal. It needed 30 minutes of cooking time in the oven. Believe me, the old me, wouldn't have waited. But this new me, who is seriously starting to surprise me, did wait. The first thing I did when I walked inside was turn the oven on. Then I bought in the groceries and unpacked them. By that time the oven had warmed up and in went the meal. I had 30 minutes to kill, so I went and did some work (I work from home) and next thing I knew the oven timer is going off and lunch was ready. And I realised that it hadn't taken a great deal of effort to do this, in fact, it was almost easy.
The third thing is that there can be chocolate and other sweet type things in the house and I don't have to eat them. I don't have to miss out on anything if I choose a low fat, but yet still yummy version, of the same item. For example, my partner loves vanilla icrecream. I love chocolate icecream and cookies and cream icrecream, both of which weight watchers has a version of, and they're much lighter in points values. I always have some in the freezer so when my partner indulges, I can too.
I also have a favourite mini fruit cake muffin recipe. I have them frozen in the freezer and pull out a container when needed. I pretty much have one of these a day. At 1 point each, I enjoy it with my evening cup of tea. So some nights I have dinner, then icrecream, then a fruit mini muffin. Doesn't feel like I'm missing out on anything does it?!
I guess though, even with all these revelations happening to me lately, I still know that at any minute I could loose it. Perhaps simply being aware of it is enough to help me help myself from losing it? Understand that?
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