Fighting the Dark Cloud of pudge!!

OK, maybe not earth shattering, but I did lose another 1.5 pounds.  Not that I can claim to have lost millions of pounds, but noting the difficult start I have been having, the grand total of 4.5 pounds is amazingly incredible to me.  AND, I credit it to ….sweet peppers!  Yes, the fact that I can graze on the during the morning has really been helping me.  Ok, one day I tried raddishes, but those were not as filling. 

 Of course, now I have to go to the green grocer and get more peppers!  There is no end to it!

 I hope you are finding your “sweet peppers” too.  Oh, and I did not get the job I interviewed for on Monday.  Well, in all honesty, the women on the panel seems to be a genuinely unhappy person- and who wants to work with that?!  I have my own interview philosophy.  If they are not smart enough to hire me, then they are not smart enough to be my boss!  So, as you can see, I can never lose at the interview game!

 Cheers!
Shari

I have learned two little lessons which I hope will make a BIG impact on me. 

First of all, last week (I know I should have written it then) I discovered that if I take a sweet pepper and slice it up, I can gobble it up over the course of the morning and not feel hungry.  And, for those who follow WW… 0 points!!  Well, not a great revelation perhaps, but I found that carrot sticks, apples, oranges and the like do not do the trick.  The pepper was satisfying and I lost some weight last week - 3 pounds!

Lesson 2.  Today I had to rush, unexpectedly, to the mall after work.  (why?  Because I have a job interview.  And today I had a job interview where I wore my sole pair of dressy pants - who wants to buy clothes when they just gained weight!  I needed another pair of pants <rightnow I really look huge in a skirt!> for the interview.).  Well, in the mall I was starving.  This really worried me as I did not have anything I could eat and you know how susceptible we are to eating BAD things when this happens.  I did, however, break down and go to Godiva where I bought a peach truffle.  Yes A (not several) peach truffle.  Well, I had it - savoured it through a few bites rather than popping it into my mouth - and I was no longer hungry.  Lesson learned?  I did not need two truffles or a chocolate bar to feel satisfied. Sooo, in the future when I am in that situation- if I break down and have chocolate - I know I do not need an entire bar!

 Ok, not exactly “one small step for man one huge leap for mankind” but it was a revelation for me!

Anyone else have any such revelations??

Have a good one!
Shari

I wonder how I can be good all day (which was my problem time before) only to sabotage it at night?  I am starting to think that my body, being used to X number of calories, encourages me to eat (like that little devil on my shoulder!) more calories at night to keep up with the X number.  (Does that make sense?).  I was just thinking that if I was used to getting something every day and suddenly I didn’t get it, I would ask for it too.  Obviously, I must have a talk with my body.

Just a thought…….

 Shari