Think thin, feel thin?
Comments(1) I’m not sure if it’s a completely psychological thing or what, but I think it works. After I made a bit of a “fresh start” yesterday, I kid you not, I look in the mirror, and feel thinner. And..the little things you do make a huge, HUGE difference. For example: I just finished dinner…which was a 1/2 c of whole wheat elbows…3 oz chix breast, and roughly 1/8c marinara (I absolutely loathe an abundance of sauce….I use just enough to keep it wet….and I come from Italian blood…go figure.) I grabbed the closest bowl I had at my disposal, which happened to be my Harry Potter cereal bowl (kids sized, obviously.) Folks, let me tell you…my pasta looked gigantic….it hardly fit in the bowl. Aesthetically pleasing, you ask? Why yes, yes it was. And am I satisfied? Absolutely. Sadly, I’ve come to the realization that a large portion of weight loss is mind games. If the food is in a small bowl, it looks like a lot…while had I put it in a salad bowl, or on a dinner plate, I would have felt completely jipped…you know what I mean? The mind is an interesting thing.
So far, calorie counting is going very well for me. I’ve never counted calories before. When I lost the 100, I was counting servings of food groups, which in itself, was calorie controlled…but I never would have admitted that at the time. After tracking my food intake for just one day, I realized truly how much I overeat. I’m shooting for no more than 1900 cals a day, and after yesterday, discovered that I eat at least 3,000 a day normally…and never EVER would have guessed that much. Insane, isn’t it? I hate tracking things, (half the reason WW didn’t work for me)…absolutely despise writing every morsel to pass through my lips down on paper, but my god, what a difference it makes. Seriously folks, give it a shot. What a difference!
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