Today I skipped breakfast.  I wasn’t hungry at first, then I had a lot of meetings and time got away from me.  By lunchtime I was very hungry and I hardly tasted the food!  Which was a shame – homemade beef stew with potatoes deserves more savoring.  This is the danger of not monitoring your body.  IF it’s not a priority, you can get into a bad situation.

For example, by dinner time I was also starving – it was after 6PM when I sat down.  Again, I hardly tasted dinner, it seemed like.  That kind of thing is counter productive.  Having gotten yourself ready to enjoy dinner by getting hungry, it’s not good to get too hungry.  You feel cheated afterwards.  You are likely to overeat if you feel deprived or cheated.  And I did have seconds tonight, which I don’t usually.  Having seconds is no good.  First you are too hungry and don’t enjoy the food, and then you are not really hungry anymore and you are just eating out of resentment or feelings of deprivation.  Those are bad reasons to eat.  You will get into bad habits.

Good habits are better for weight control.   I try to pay attention to my body and feed it when it is hungry, with measured amounts of good foods I like.  Going from eating way too much over the weekend, to eating way too little a few days later, is a rollercoaster.  That’s why you can’t make up for a bad diet day by eating less tomorrow.  Resentment will follow, and you physical body also won’t like such extreme changes.   

I will pay more attention.  Weight control has been going well!  That means it needs more attention, not less.  I like the expression “quadruple down on whatever is working in your life.”  Don’t slack off.

-The Doctor