January 23rd - Noticing Changes Well, up and at 'em I say.  Last night I cooked a bolognese sauce, and for the first time I became aware of a stodgy heavy feeling after dinner (I only had a small serve too).  'Flopsy' felt the same and he would normally have cheese on top of his pasta and butter on his bread, both of which he skipped.  I am marvelling at how quickly your body can start adjusting to the better health.  This only goes to support my thought of yesterday.  Regardless of my weight, my body is already adjusting to the healthier me.  That's not to say I'm not losing weight (weigh-in day today so I'll tell you later) but it gives me that IMMEDIATE feedback that tells me I'm healthy.  And, let me tell you, I'm bloody thrilled about that.  I started getting smaller clothes out of the wardrobe this morning and trying them on to see if they are fitting any better.  I've been wearing my own jeans now for several days and don't have to borrow Flopsy's clothes any more.  So, there's lots of things to be happy about.  I'm still a bit of a depressive person by nature, in that I cry fairly easily, and feel affected by things.  That's also a potential interference with my healthy choices, because I make emotional decisions from time to time.  But last night we had an argument, and it didn't cross my mind to emotionally eat.  So that's progress.  I guess I'm slowly breaking the old associations with eating - reading a book, having a bath, being upset, watching a movie, watching certain TV shows.  I've gone to the movie theatre twice in the last couple of weeks and not eaten anything.  It wasn't that hard for me, especially when I realise that I usually eat the food I buy before the movie starts anyway.  By the time you've watched 15 minutes of crap cinema advertising and another 15 minutes containing all the bits worth watching out of a bunch of movies you now have no need to see - well I've eaten my kit-kat by then. Anyhow, big day today for me.  Well I'm hoping it will be a big day.  I have a bunch of stuff I gotta do.  Bike lesson first (test tomorrow!!!!).  That takes me through to about midday.  This afternoon I want to go through all the paperwork I have lying around my house and work out what to do with all of it. I also want to tidy up my room and the spare room. Then, tonight's my meeting and weigh-in.  Then I gotta come home and tell y'all about it.  Then I figure I better get some rest before my test tomorrow morning.  So - better hop to it.  Chat you later.  Later ... Well I'm back from weigh in and I lost 1.3kgs in the last week.  I'm really pleased about that and just entered it into the progress chart.  I also walked most of the way home from my WW meeting so that's extra brownie points for me.  Anyway, buggered as anything, going to head off to bed. <<Back     Home    Next>>