Day 3 of the Rest of My Life

Woke up extremely late for work! I must of been exhausted to not even hear my alarm go off. I rolled out of bed at 5:30 and ran - put my clothes on grabbed my toiletries and out the door. I grabbed the fruit salad my roomie made and the pesto salad from a couple days ago.

I ate the fruit salad in the car asking myself the whole time, "Do I taste the fruit?" At moments yes and others no. I mean I was driving and I was running late for work.

I had to wash-up once I got to work. Then when I thought I had a moment - I ate the pesto salad before my next student athlete showed up. I definitely didn't get to enjoy the flavors of the pesto salad. I was rushed to train the next kid. Then I was off to a meeting and I am starving.

I'm like is this headache because I'm hungry or thirsty? I waited to eat until I met up with Sean for lunch in Lambertville and we had Lily's by the Canal. It was awesome outdoor atmosphere. They even put paintings up on the outdoor walls. I split a flat bread pizza with Sean and had half of his angus burger. Then we both split this seven layer cake! It was delicious with chocolate mouse! It was also huge. I didn't think that we would get cake that big!

Glad to see I was able to make it to day 3. Let's see where we become with Day 4.

Day 2 of the Rest of My Life

Another work day and I start it off with a bowl of Raisin Bran. Do I taste the texture of the bran, the chewy goodness of the raisin? Nope. I just get it down cause I know I need to eat. I should eat. I'm breaking the fast!

I nibble on some grapes and a couple of raspberries during camp. I eat the grapes mindlessly, not savoring the juiciness sweetness of each green goodness plucked away from the stem.

I go to a lunch meeting where we attend a sushi restaurant. I get a eel dish that comes with miso soup and a side of spicy tuna roll. I am eating because I'm nervous and slightly eating slowly to extend the conversation. The conversation lasts for 2 hours.

I then try to go home to grab a bite but Route 1 is awful! I forgot what rush hour traffic was like considering I never travel in it. So, I turn around and head back to work. I go to the U Store and grab a Odewalla bar for 210 calories. I guess this is a good thing considering I burned some calories on the Elliptical/Stepper Machine. I get a hunger headache which I know is bad but my stomach wasn't telling me I was/am hungry.

I get home and it's 9:00 pm. I've had two servings of Orzo Greek Salad and a brownie. I think I'm satisfied but the headache hasn't gone away. Listening to the body is a crazy thing. How do you know what you're listening for? Is it really a growl? A rumbling of the tum tum? Or is all that just what you're body is doing because it's expecting you to eat at a certain time.

I swear recently, I can get my stomach to growl on command. I think about food and it's going to start to grumble.

Let's see how I do with Day 3!

Day 1 of the Rest of My Life

My goals in writing this blog is to be more in touch with my food choices. While I love healthy foods - I might be eating an abundance of the good for you choices. I also enjoy the not so healthy for you foods such as cookies, brownies, chocolate, etc. What can I say? I am a fat kid at heart. I know it. My parents know it. I have been able to get away with it by being physically active but now is the time to balance the physical with what I'm putting into my body.

Let me give you an example of my healthy choice gone overboard. I love strawberries and will be buy a 2 lb container for $2.99 at Wegmans. Did I say will buy? I mean I have bought at least one 2 lb container every week for the past two weeks. I clean and wash the strawberries and slice them into a nice container. In the moments of cutting the strawberries I am eating every third strawberry I cut. In reality, I could easily devour 2 lbs of strawberries in one sitting.

Now to figure out how much I should eat I've been working on this knowing when I'm hungry and when I'm full. We will say that zero is starving and 10 is Thanksgiving Day full. I'm suppose to eat when I'm a 3 and stop when I'm a 7. I'm trying to figure out what is a 3 and what's a 7.

So today I had the conversation with myself about my cereal. I woke up this morning at 4:45 am. I get ready for work and as I'm walking out the door I have a bowl of Raisin Bran with milk in my hand. Every morning I wake up and grab a bowl of cereal to eat with while driving. I know this isn't the safest thing to do but it's the one way to make sure I have something to eat before the start of work.

I asked myself when I arrived at work. Were you hungry when you ate the Raisin Bran? Not exactly but I thought the whole point of breakfast was to break the fast? Did I want Raisin Bran? Not really. Do I remember what the Raisin Bran tasted like? Not at all because I was in a rush gobbling it down. Now will I make the same choice tomorrow? We shall see.

There was only one point in the day where I really felt a twinge of hunger and that was during the middle of squash camp. So I housed a handful of grapes not even tasting their sweet juiciness. Then I became disappointed because I didn't mindfully eat them.

I want to be able to describe the foods and their sensations in hopes that I will be able to be in the moment while eating.

We'll see how my 3 to 7 goes tomorrow.