Day 3 - That's the Way the Cookie Crumbles!

Usually when I break down and eat cookies it's because I haven't eaten enough during the day.  At night I have found myself starving...well okay, not starving but hungry...so I grab the first thing I can find that appeals to me and it's usually something sweet.  Cookies standing up and stuffed down fast are what my stomach knows and loves.

Today was a different story.  When I started my journey...a short three days ago...I ridded my house of food that I really didn't want to eat.  I figured I'd face a SWEETS dilemma sometime down the road, but I didn't expect it to happen so soon.  Of course I was wrong.  Go figure!

Just before noon my friend came over for lunch and brought all kinds of good things for a gigantic salad.  And cookies.  My first plan was to eat the salad and not eat a cookie.  I prepared the salad with the tenderness of a mother handling a newborn baby. I dressed it till it glistened.  Then I sat down and slowly chewed and swallowed one bite after another until I wasn't hungry anymore.

I put on a pot of coffee and savoured the scent of the roasted beans.   The steaming coffee made me remember the cup of coffee I had with Keith on Sunday. Someone handed him a piece of birthday cake.  "Are you going to eat that?" I asked.

"I don't deprive myself of anything," Keith told me.  "I just don't eat cake all the time."  Funny how some conversations are just meant to be. A wise dietitian had said the same words to me on more than one occasion. I thought of her too.

I handed my friend a cookie and took one for myself.  A steaming mug of coffee, a good friend, and a fudge cookie.  What a great way to have a special lunch.  I'm feeling fine!

Day 2 - Scales? What Scales!?

You know what occurred to me?  I forgot to weigh myself yesterday on the first day of my journey.  I feel like celebrating until the cows come home!  I feel like kissing my dogs.  Shoot, I'll even call my husband to my office and give him a kiss. You want to know why?  I'll tell you!  It's because I must truly not be dieting.  I always weigh myself the minute I get out of bed when I start a diet.  Then if I pass the bathroom with the scale I weigh myself again...and again...and again.

This morning I woke up and thought about peaches and strawberries.  I thought about eating.  Frankly, I'm scaring myself. I FORGOT THE SCALES!  I did remember you though.  You've got to hold up your end of the bargain I told myself. You're pulling other people along for this ride.

Here's the other interesting thing I do before embarking on a diet.  I stuff myself.  I order a pizza and ask for it to be cut into four pieces because I'll get too
 full if I eat six.  I think that's pretty funny but the joke's usually on me.  Actually, it's always on me.

Right now it's 10:30 something or other at night and I've eaten breakfast, lunch, and dinner.  I felt the urge to go downstairs to the kitchen to get something else but you know what?  I'm really not hungry.  I've entered all my food on fitday.com and I've had a very balanced day.

Let's make a toast.  Here's to a day of kind mindful eating and here's to you too!  Thanks for traveling the celeryandcarrots path with me.

Day One – Food Is My Friend and So Is fitday.com

I have decided that food is not my enemy. No such thing as a giant cookie that’s going to grab me by the neck and choke me until I die. Turnips won’t force themselves down my throat either. I can have a relationship with food that’s easy and kind. Now if that isn’t SWEET I don’t know what is! I can eat what I want when I want as long as I keep tabs on what I’m doing and eat mindfully.

  I am going to track my journey with food and healthy lifestyle changes on a site called fitday.com. I looked over several other similar sites and this one seemed to be really user-friendly. I want to find a network of people to travel this year-long journey with me. I’m especially hoping that my relative by marriage, good friend, and fitness guru will join me on this endeavour. His name is Keith Oliver. I want Keith to tell his story and help all of us.