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.