I’m beginning to think that my fat-loss is so slow, because I’m not feeling the hunger. And why not?
The most obvious answer to my slow fat-loss is that I’m eating and drinking too much. However, my calorie count is lower than recommended. My fat count is low. My total calorie to fat calorie ratio is well below what’s recommended. I’m moving around a lot – up and down, down and up, walking, climbing, stretching, dancing.
So what’s going on?
Because I eat, I think I’m hungry. When I go to eat again, I think I must be hungry. But am I?
Maybe I’m thinking too much. Maybe I’m thinking about the weight so much that I’m putting my brain into chaos. Steve’s doctor told him to stop recording all of his stats regarding the lowering of his blood pressure. There’s a point when it becomes obsessive and obstructive. Steve agreed, and now Steve’s telling me the same thing.
You know what’s good for you. All your life you’ve focused on good health and maintained that health. So you have a little weight. We’re old, sure we’ll slim down, but not by record-keeping.
I wonder why everybody tells you to keep records of everything you do to change your behavior? It changes for the short-term, but long term I believe now that we need more physical recognition of ourselves, rather than viewing ourselves through the intellectual process.
If I don’t feel the hunger pangs, then I shouldn’t be hungry. During those five weeks I said I didn’t suffer or feel deprived. I ate and drank that which prevented hunger pangs. Even though intellectually I knew I should be feeling something to signal myself to get ready for a meal, I didn’t follow that rule of the body.
Preparing yourself for a meal isn’t the same as eating immediately upon thinking about it.
I believe that, for me at least, I have to feel the hunger if I’m going to lose the fat.
Instant gratification has become a norm in our society. Advertisements are in part responsible for making you think you’re hungry when you’re not – yet. Ever see some food on television and immediately want it, even though you weren’t hungry? It’s playing with the hunger receptors in your brain.
It’s impossible to remove yourself from the influence of advertisement – it’s everywhere, all the time.
Entertainment. Food and drink is the entertainment.
Because of that alone, never mind all the other factors, it’s going to be a challenge to not eat when you’re not hungry.
Wait for the hunger pangs. Hunger pangs don’t kill; you’re not dying.
Fifteen minutes. Can you wait an hour? Do people really eat more after they abstain? I don’t think, for me at least, that it averages out to be more. Filling my stomach past capacity hurts, and I’ll back off.
Still, even though I’m doing most things right, I still have that gut. Frankly, being out of the 60’s helps (160’s). I’m not that bad off when I weigh in the 150’s. I’m out of danger. When I get up into the 60’s I’m out-of-bounds and I feel it.
My new goal: In five weeks from Friday 10 August 2018, using the GREEN DIET, that wasn’t so green the first two weeks, I want to be out of the 50’s. A hundred and forty-something. It can be 149.5, but out of the 150’s.
I have three weeks from tomorrow to accomplish that. This time there will be no maybes.
I know myself. I’ll dance around something for a while, before doing it. I do the same thing when I prepare to paint a picture. I don’t even know I’m preparing, till one day I paint and I couldn’t have done it the way I did it without the dance preceding the event.
In hind sight I recognize that familiar dance. It’s always the same.
Well, it’s the same here too.
When I zero in, it’s over.
Bye-bye 50’s.
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