Weigh In This Week, and Thoughts About Cookies and Booze

At my weigh in on Monday I was down 4lbs, and my waist was 1 1/2 inches smaller. My hips were smaller too. What's up with that? I thought that was only chick-type stuff. Pants are still fitting better, and I had to tighten my duty belt again. I realized it was loose when I was walking around work and found that it was falling down. This morning I ran on the treadmill because it was raining outside. I tried the interval style thing again. I worked my way up to a sprint about 4 times over 40 minutes.

Eating is an interesting thing. I read something the other day that has stuck with me about eating, which was, "We should eat so we are not hungry. We should not eat so that we are full." I didn't pay much attention to what that meant at the time, but the next time I had a meal, I found myself thinking about what that really meant. And I stopped eating when I wasn't hungry anymore. The next day I planned my meals and snacks around how much food would keep me from being hungry. That doesn't mean that I ate bad all day. Dinner was an 8oz grilled New York Strip Steak with a HUGE salad and some brown rice. Lunch was a sandwich with about 6oz of turkey, cheese, etc. Breakfast was my stupid eggs and oatmeal, which I'm actually starting to like. Plus snacks like yogurt, string cheese, and so on. But I made sure to stop eating when I quit being hungry.

A few posts ago I mentioned my rule about cookies. That rule didn't stick around like the others did. I really like cookies. I have found that my will power goes away around cookies. I can put aside booze, I have had one bowl of cereal in the last two months, I haven't had any Hostess crap in years, chips don't call to me (while I do enjoy them occasionally, they don't have near the pull of cookies), crackers, meh. I don't have a bread addiction. Sometimes the fresh baked loaves from Safeway are good with dinner, but rarely. When it comes down to it, cookies are it. All kinds. Oatmeal, chocolate chip, peanut butter, white chocolate/macademia nut, Girl Scout Samoas ( I refuse to call them by the new name), you name it, I LOVE IT!!! They will be my downfall if anything is.