Healthy eating forever is paying off. Yesterday, I almost slipped "off the wagon." I got home late again from the client's office and it is a 1 hour trip by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit system) and then half hour drive to my house. I was starving! I didn't pack enough healthy snacks in my big bag. All the way home I kept on thinking about stopping for fast food because it was late, and so on.
However, I kept on thinking about the nice pot of stew I made the night before and how good it would taste when I got home. I knew I would grab the first thing I could eat when I got home, so I set up a plan in my mind to avoid eating junk food. First, I would drink a glass of water. Then take out a handful of mixed nuts to eat. Then I began heating up the stew. The water and nuts helped curve my appetite. The stew tasted terrific.
Happily, I didn't gain any weight. Even though I ate 4 small sugar free cookies. At this point in my weight loss it is just a test for me to see what it takes to lose the last two pounds of my goal weight. Whether I lose them or not shouldn't make a difference in my health goals. The important thing is to keep OFF what I have already lost.
Next goal---EXERCISE! EXERCISE! EXERCISE! (I have a lot of loose skin that needs to be firmed up. :-)
Happy and Healthy (even though the economy stinks),
Joan Clout-Kruse
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