Thurday is Like Friday Eve

Weighed in at 141.8 this morning. I'd be super happy to start next week under 140.

Yesterday was awful. I felt terrible emotionally and physically. I think it was lack of food. I had a 50 calorie vegetable soup and a 0 calorie soda and that was all until 4:00. BUT by then, I was too grumpy, irritable, and lethargic to move. Probably dehydrated, too.

LISTEN TO YOUR BODY! It talks at you.

I think it is really vital to listen and respond to your body. I feel like I am getting better at it (besides yesterday). I can't even tell you how much more mellow I feel with my current diet. Cutting out a lot of the sugar highs and lows has made me feel much more patient and consistent, which is good because the monkeys in my class make me a little crazy.

And I thought I'd be really hungry without those three to six or eleven servings of carbs per day. I think of carbs as the "fill up your tummy" foods, especially warm, fluffy, fresh bread.

Then, I wondered, how much food can your stomach hold??

So I asked the Internet god, Goggle. And google thus showeth unto me: this. And the answer is a gallonish. (Interesting side note: a children's stomach is about as big as their fist. Don't make kids eat too much and give them really high quality food.)

Truly, I don't feel hungry much at all. Yesterday, I did, but I let myself be distracted rather than foraging for food.. "Hungry" is your stomach's signal that it is ready to digest s'more food. But if you hold out, your stomach goes foraging on its own. Into your fat cells (I hope).

I don't think "satisfied" comes from filling up your tummy with carbs. I think it might come from fat. And internet god says your brain really really loves fat. We need a 1:1 balance of omega 3 and 6. The American diet throws that off by like 20:1. Eat more fish, they say. And less sugar.

Perhaps I'll add my fish oil pills back into my vitamin regimen.

And maybe more exercise. I did great with week one; kinda slacking back on week two. I counted "playing guitar" for an hour at 2 calories a minute. I'm gonna try getting up for a short walk in the morning before my "morning constitutional." Morning runs would be nice, but I'm too sleepy for all that. A walk. Hmmm. Maybe.