20200704 Saturday weighing report

Saturday and Fourth of July weekend!  A good combination.  I weigh myself every Saturday.  It’s important to do that, even if you know you didn’t have a good diet week.  I have skipped sometimes, if I am not feeling well for example. I have found that my weight is unreliable when I am not well.  As it happens, I have been recovering from illness this week and I have no idea what my actual weight is.  Let me explain.

In 2019, when I got sick my weight was all over the place.  The first time it happened I worked hard to keep the calorie count under control, though it was an effort.  Maybe I really wanted the comfort that comes from eating and feeling full, when I was sick and suffering.  But it didn’t do any good, apparently.  After I was better, my weight was exactly the same as before I got sick.  The next time I got sick, I let myself eat whatever and however much.  The same thing happened – after I got better, my weight was the same as when I started.  What is the truth of it?  I am not sure.  

But I am trying hard to get away from the idea that food should be eaten for comfort reasons.  It is better to enjoy the food because you need it physically.  Anyway, what was my weight today? 

The lowest number yet!

This means since starting my diet I have lost more than 90 pounds!  That’s a good milestone.  How many pounds have I lost?

Pounds!!
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What is my weight?? And what reward?

My food intake has been under very good control this last few weeks.  But my weight record has been 241-239-235-235-234, an inconsistent loss.  I blame being sick.  I have this feeling that I should have lost more weight since my intake has been so controlled, but who knows how your body’s energetics change when you are sick.  Anyway, I will find out next week what my “real” weight is.  I have been looking in the mirror hoping that I have lost more than that, but it’s hard to judge small changes in weight.  

This is kind of a milestone, reaching a loss of 90 pounds.  Typically I reward myself for reaching each decade of weight, so I would normally be looking to reward myself at <230 pounds.  There’s also the fact that I have been hanging out above 240 for six months or so.  So it’s notable that I have reached a kind of milestone (under 235#s).  I won’t make a big deal out of this milestone, though.  I will reward myself for getting under 230 pounds, and also when I have lost 100 pounds (under 225).  That’s a lot to lose. 

But this is good.  This is a new low.  A new low every week means I will get to my destination someday.  Remember: you change your mind and become a different person.  Your body is a lagging indicator and has to catch up more slowly.  I also have to remember that it took a long time to gain all this weight.  It’s hard to not be impatient if you look at the scale and your progress.  But you can be happy about how quickly and completely you changed your mind.  The new me is in there.  

Change yourself and change the world.  Change at least the way the world sees you.

-The Doctor

20200703 Daily report and blueberry time

This morning I did some baking and then some stovetop cooking, even though it was going to get to 96 degrees outside today.  More on the cooking later – it was my first time pressure cooking.  On to the baking.  It was Texas blueberry cobbler, which I have never made before but was recommended by one of my throngs of devoted readers.  The chief benefit is that it’s easier than making a pie.  It’s not your typical cobbler but turns out like a cake with pockets of blueberries and blueberry-soaked….cake.   So it is no runny at all, like a pie or cobbler would be.  It also has a stick and a half of butter in the recipe, which is an America’s Test Kitchen adaptation.  So even if the blueberries are marginal in terms of flavor, it’s still a nice lemon butter cake.  I cut it into 10 pieces of 280 calories each.

Texas style blueberry cobbler
Much easier than pie, quicker too.

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 1/10 serving Texas Blueberry Cobbler (280);

  • 280 calories

Lunch – 4oz chili (170); toasted bread (100); ham (100); salami (130); provolone cheese (70);

  • 570 calories 

Dinner – 5oz rice (160); 8oz pork vindaloo (350)

  • 510 calories

Snacking – none so far!

  • 0 calories

Total for the day: 1360 calories (limit 1850)

Yes, I will have a few more calories

1360 calories for the day is pretty low for me.  I will be having something else.  On the other hand, I do have a weighing day tomorrow so not too much!  Part of weight control is being careful about rewards.  You accomplished something – you kept your mind in the right place and kept your calorie intake where you wanted.  You can’t then punish yourself by getting hungry and resentful.  When you are restricting your calorie intake you have to pay a lot attention to your subconscious and its needs.  

I’ve said this before, but there’s a part of you – call it the subconscious – that has to be treated like someone you care about.  You can’t force that part of you to do things you want, like lose weight, exercise, stop smoking, or improve whatever vice you have.  What works is to stand that relationship on its head.  Normally the conscious willing part of you says something like “eat less!”  and the burden falls on your subconscious self to carry that out.  That part gets resentful fast.  Better for the conscious part to take up the burden and do most of the work.  After all, it is giving the orders!  Using this trick, I have managed to lose a lot of weight and not feel resentful or deprived.  It does take work and discipline.  But the kind of work and discipline is not intuitive or obvious to those of us in an uncontrolled/weight gain mindset.  

There is a thin way of thinking.  Wach people who have stayed thin and you will see how they do it but not what they get out of it – why they are doing it and how they are thinking about it.  That takes a bit more work.  But if you talk to them, you will get important clues.  A thin person is often quite proud of their weight discipline, though I have found many of them are shy/modest or pretend that what they are doing is no big deal.  The best person to talk to is someone who has struggled with their weight and managed to keep it under control.  They know how to think about it and are successful.

You can be successful with weight control too.  Just work out how.  It won’t just happen by itself!

-The Doctor

20200702 Daily report with ice cream perhaps

These days I am having success with a skimpy breakfast plan.  I have a quite small breakfast and a normal lunch, then a snack, and after dinner there are often 300 or more calories left in my budget that I can spend as I like!  The amazing part is that with my focus on hunger as my reason for eating, I am often not even using the whole 1850 calories I budget per day.  On a regular diet I would probably be eating right up to, and a bit over, the limit, and being unhappy about it.  But by setting my mind right first, the 1850 becomes more of a guideline than a goal.  If I get hungry I check my food journal and say “no wonder, I’ve only had 700 calories so far today” or “I shouldn’t be that hungry, I’ve already had 1600.”

Half a pound of chili and some garlic bread - dinner.

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – baked beans (180)

  • 180 calories

Lunch – 5oz cooked rice (160); 12 ounces vegetable curry (330)

  • 490 calories 

Dinner – 8oz chili (340); 60g garlic bread (250)

  • 590 calories

Snacking – pretzels (100); 2x Reese’s PBCs (80); 110g ice cream (250);

  • 510 calories

Total for the day: 1770 calories (limit 1850)

Yes, I decided to have ice cream

But I didn’t have a cone.  And I do like my waffle cone with the right kind of ice cream.  They are 80 calories.  But I didn’t need it today.  To really enjoy it, I would have to be hungrier. 

In preparation for the 4th of July weekend, I bought a pineapple and a watermelon and some blueberries.  With any luck I will make blueberry crumble tomorrow morning.  It will be a hot day, so cooking in the morning is sensible.  And I will have watermelon and pineapple in the refrigerator, ready for the predicted 97 degrees!  I have decided that blueberries and watermelon are essentially calorie free (not 100% true) so I often don’t record eating them.  Plus I don’t have them that often.

Weight control is partly about having things to look forward to.  But at the highest level it is about resetting your view of food and eating.  Instead of thinking like an out of control person who will gain weight, you can learn how thin people think.  There’s lots of emphasis in the diet world on aping some of the behaviors of thin people, but a lot of it won’t work if you don’t have the thinking right.  If you think like a person who has successfully stayed thin through their life, those behaviors will make more sense and you can implement them consistently and with purpose.  Your body, a lagging indicator, will slowly catch up to your change of mind.  Watch thin people and figure it out.  Talk to them and they will tell you all about it.  

My system is complicated.  Not every overweight person is willing to solve their problems by keeping a food journal for the rest of their life, and many people who stay thin don’t do that.  But I have a special situation with my former weight gain.  I feel like my ability to judge how much food is enough, and remember what I have eaten, is unreliable.  The journal evens the odds.  It is my hobby.  

Listen to what the thin people are telling you.  Keep an open mind.

-The Doctor

20200701 Daily report with a $5 Gyro

It is important to have things to look forward to, but that has to be done right.  When I was uncontrolled in my food intake and gaining weight, I looked forward to meals.  Since I had learned to associate feeling full with comfort, completion, fulfillment, I could look forward to all those things at nearly every meal.  But that wasn’t good fulfillment.  I figured out later that those emotional goals associated with food are kind of shallow.  I call them ‘cheap thrills’ now.   

A worthier reason for eating is also a simpler one: because you physically need the food.  It is a worthier reason because it allows for higher goals.  You can fulfill your senses, like with a favorite food, instead of gratifying your emotions.  You can anticipate, not your emotional fulfillment (which should really come from accomplishments and pride in your work well done) but physical fulfillment, which comes no matter how you feel about things.  

That is, enjoy the food, rather than how eating a lot of it makes you feel.

Big Greek Cafe $5 Gyro Wednesdays!!!!

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – pancakes (150)

  • 150 calories

Lunch – Big Greek Cafe Famous $5 Gyro Wednesdays (600);

  • 600 calories 

Dinner – 5oz cooked white rice (160); 12 ounces curry (330);

  • 490 calories

Snacking – pretzels (250); cheese (80); snickers ice cream bar (180);

  • 510 calories

Total for the day: 1750 calories (limit 1850)

Erratum and datum

On Saturday I said I reached a new low weight of 235.2 pounds, but I was wrong.  The previous Saturday’s weight was also 235.2 pounds – look at the picture.  So I didn’t lose any weight that week, possibly.  I mean, it doesn’t count much since I was a bit ill and had a lot of water weight changes at that time, but I did claim it was a new low.  It wasn’t.  Will I be all better Saturday, in terms of water weight?  We shall see.  My calorie counts have been great and under control for this week and last week.  But we shall see.  That’s what Saturdays are for.  

Like I have said many times, since starting the weight control lifestyle, feeling full has gotten to be uncomfortable for me.  That is completely opposed to my old incentive, when I was gaining weight.  Feeling full was the goal!  That is no longer the goal.  I am seeing the world in a new way, like I imagine a thin person does.  It is working out, and I tell myself that my body is a lagging indicator.  That means my weight is slowly catching up.  

I have also been thinking about dieting and what a waste of time it is.  I have lost a lot of weight without going on a diet.  I can’t make those work, it’s the feeling of deprivation and my reasons for eating that were the problems.  I imagine there are lots of people who feel this way.  Maybe you would reply that I am on a diet – defined as losing weight by eating less food.  But I define a diet differently: an attempt to force yourself to eat less food, while staying exactly the same person on the inside, who gained that extra weight in the first place.  You see, you will gain the weight back again once you stop forcing yourself.  A diet is contrary to your being.  Weight control is an attempt to redefine your being.  Your body catches up to your mind. 

Change your mind, change your body!  Never the other way around.  

-The Doctor

20200360 Daily report, now with free retort!

My improved heat resistance continues to surprise me.  I used to break out into a sweat just going outside in the hot summer weather.  That was when I weighed a lot more.  Now, I have a whole week (and maybe a whole summer) of very hot weather ahead, including days in the 90s.  What will it be like once I weigh 40 pounds less?

That brings up the whole business of fitness.  Being thin and having your weight under control is one thing.  But you can’t stop there.  Some level of physical fitness is important also. 

Lunch meat sandwich with pickles and mustard - watch out for the bread!

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 60g toast (140); hummus (100); olive tapenade (50);

  • 290 calories

Lunch – 120g bread (280); ham (100); cheese (70); salami (130);

  • 580 calories 

Dinner – 6 ounces cooked spaghetti (300); 

  • 300 calories

Snacking – tea with half and half (80); pretzels (150); chocolate (130);

  • 360 calories

Total for the day: 1530 calories (limit 1850)

Wizards and wonders

Terry Pratchett once wrote that if you were the kind of person who keeps adding pickles and chutneys and condiments to your sandwich and don’t even notice when the meat slips out and falls on the floor, you might be of the wizardly kind of mind.  He knew a lot about wizards, since he invented so many of them and filled his books with them.  That’s not me though, as you can see from the picture above.  Anyway, I’ve noticed that the most calories on your sandwich can easily come from your bread.  I do like some pickles and condiments, though.  In my mind those things are “free” even though they do have calories at some level and those can add up. 

For example, my BLT wrap has a fair amount of lettuce and a few tomatoes, and a bit of horseradish sauce.  I don’t normally count them with the bacon and the wrap, or just put 10-20 calories in my record without really measuring or counting.  There are limits to how far I will go for weight control!  And my sandwich today had pickles, mustard, and horseradish sauce.  When I make hamburgers or pork burgers it is the same – I don’t count the lettuce, onion, tomato, or horseradish mayo.  I do count it when it seems like a lot.  When I make Spanish tortilla (eggs onions and potatoes cooked in olive oil) I count the tablespoon of mayo I put on the side.  That’s 110 calories!  At least, if you use good mayo.  

So far this has not stopped me losing weight.  I have guessed that as you get thinner and thinner, it gets to be more and more effort to maintain your weight.  I wonder if there will come a point when I am counting olives and salsa and marinara sauce and ketchup on a sandwich.  I kind of hope not. 

My pressure cooker has arrived!  I have plans for it.  Keep watching!

-The Doctor. 

20200629 Daily report – hot weather edition

Well!  According to my website’s software, my blog’s readability is low.  This is because the writing is too complex.  I apologize to my reader.  I won’t make that mistake again!  Until tomorrow, when I forget.  

I made chili for dinner.  Usually I do the all the big cooking on the weekends, but yesterday I decided I had cooked enough with the vegetable curry.  I was feeling a bit lazy.  Actually, I only tasted the chili.  It didn’t seem appealing to me.  My guess is I have picked up an intestinal bug – other members of the Doctor family have been complaining also.  And I had that unusual weighing on Saturday.  But it didn’t keep them from eating it!  Just me.

They ate it as fast as I made it!

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – 2x servings of raisin bran crunch with milk  (250)

  • 500 calories

Lunch – tea (80); 2x toast (100) 3T hummus (35); 2T olive tapenade (25);

  • 430 calories 

Dinner – bread (150); pancakes (150); chili (50);

  • 350 calories

Snacking – pretzels (150); chocolate (110); ice cream (350);

  • 610 calories

Total for the day: 1890 calories (limit 1850)

Sunday weighing, hot weather

Saturday my weight loss was minimal.  I wondered if it was a fluke.  On Sunday I weighed myself again.  I was just making sure that my Saturday weight was real.  Apparently it isn’t!  I weighed 237.6 on Sunday.  That’s a swing of more than two pounds in one day.  So I am pretty sure my stomach is out of order.  

In the last year, whenever I got sick I just indulged myself and ate pretty much as much as I wanted to feel happy.  Then I went back to my weight control discipline once I got better.  Maybe that way, I got the idea that dieting while sick didn’t do much for my weight.  Now, I am trying more to get away from eating for reasons other than physical hunger/need.  So this weekend and today I tried to keep my reasons for eating simple and direct.  I did change the kinds of foods I was eating.  Some things just seemed more appealing.  And I pretty much have been keeping to my calorie count.  

It was another hot-ish day (88, humid) and I had to go out in the afternoon – the hottest part.  When I weighed a lot more, it was very uncomfortable to be in the hot weather and I felt hot all the time.  Even indoors, it took a long time to get cool.  Since I have gotten more disciplined, even though I am 40+ pounds away from my goal, the heat bothers me less.  I wonder what it will be like once I am even thinner!  It will take until next summer to find out.  Even if I lose 2 pounds per week, it will take 20 weeks to get there.  There is no guarantee I can keep that pace up.  That means it might take even longer.  

Something to look forward to!  Make sure you have something you are looking forward to.

-The Doctor

20200628 Daily report – late night

It’s pretty late in the day for me to be starting a post, but it was a busy day.  Part of that busyness was preparing for the week to come.  I cook on the weekend, mostly dinners for the rest of the week.  I also have a menu of things I can cook quickly, to fill in any gaps.  Today, I made a vegetable curry.  It takes a lot of time to prep and cook it well, but it is a family favorite.  Look at all the prep work!  And there’s more: you can’t see the potatoes because they are hidden under the onions, and I didn’t bring the garlic cloves over, either.  The ginger was all finely grated, and the spices dry-toasted in a skillet.  These ingredients are just for the flavor building – more goes into the final dish: peas, and cream.

And then the resulting dish takes a fair amount of technique to build flavor – vegetable-only dishes need that extra work.  

Prep work for the first few steps
Worth it. Family favorites are.

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – Pancakes (200); pizza (300);

  • 500 calories

Lunch – 2x Kirkland bratwurst (280); half whole wheat wrap (55);

  • 615 calories 

Dinner – 5oz white rice (160); 12oz vegetable curry (330);

  • 490 calories

Snacking – kale and beans (50); pretzels (200)

  • 250 calories

Total for the day: 1855 calories (limit 1850)

Preparing and planning for control

My lifestyle is an attempt to control my food intake and my body’s weight.  The bargain I have made with myself, and have been able to keep, is that the food has to be worthwhile.  If I am going to be saving my calories for mealtimes, then I have to do the work to make sure the meal is worth the wait and worth looking forward to.  It’s much better than trying to force myself to eat less or to avoid certain foods, which feels like deprivation to me.  And nobody reacts that well to force over the medium and long term.  This way, it feels like I am taking care of myself, by doing a lot of work to make sure I will be happy with the food.  

It is late.  I’m going to bed, but I am going to bed well satisfied with my plan for the week and the cooking I did today.

-The Doctor

20200627 Saturday weighing – just barely edition

Well, I had a surprise!  First, for the non surprise part, I had a good week for weight control, with no day over my calorie limit and several days under it.  My average daily calorie intake for the week – 1793.  Second, I did have a big drop in weight during the last two weeks, from 239.6 to 235.4.  This leads me to a puzzle, because when I got on the scale today, I was at a new low – just barely:

Technically, less than last week...

Still, we commemorate victories on this blog, even little ones that I can’t explain.  Since starting my weight control approach in 2019, I have lost: 

Pounds!!
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Chicken and egg

Why did I lost four pounds in one week, recorded last week, and only 0.2 pounds this week, recorded today?  If anything, my calorie intake was less this week than last week!  I have had this happen before, and it usually straightens itself out in a week or two, at the most.  My guess is that the 4-pound loss was a fluke, and this week’s weight is real.  But we will find out next week.  

This is strange, though, because my weight does fluctuate.  And you hear stories about people, like Mr. Rogers, who weighed himself daily and apparently weighed the same amount every day.  I wonder if truly thin people don’t fluctuate much (he weighed something like 143 pounds).  Maybe it just means “most of the time”.   I plan to find out, but I recognize it will take some time.  No, I am not trying to achieve 143 pounds!  More like 180-190.  Even that will take time.  

Looking at the diet news stories, I see that one woman attributed her loss of 80 pounds to low calorie foods and 0 calorie soda.  We’ve talked about zero calorie drinks before, so I’m glad to see that it doesn’t keep people from losing weight!  The important part of her story, though, is what she said: “food became my refuge.”  Apparently she had a rough year or two and she started gaining weight around that time.  I have been looking for quotes involving this insight.  If you are completely honest, and examine your reasons for eating, you may find, like me, that your reasons are not always physical, but emotional.  You can get to a place where you eat until you feel completely full, for every meal, and do that as a kind of emotional fulfillment.  Then you might lose the connection to physical hunger entirely.  Once that happens, you are eating because it’s mealtime and because you are not completely full.  

A person who stays thin and keeps control over their body’s weight keeps that connection simple.  You eat because you are empty, and eat just enough so you are no longer physically hungry.  To a person who stays thin, that is their whole reason for eating – to stay thin.  

For a person who is gaining weight (out of control), the point of eating is to feel full, for comfort, or for “refuge” as the lady above put it.  With that mindset, stopping eating before you are completely full feels like abuse!  Think about it, you are basically denying yourself comfort and refuge by stopping.  

Once you have your mind straight, eating less doesn’t feel like deprivation.  Then, you can do it.

-The Doctor

 

20200626 Daily report with meats and sweets

I was looking at my food journal for 2020, and I don’t eat as much meat as I thought.  There’s a fair amount of vegetable dishes, rice, noodles, pizza, and some stews and soups flavored with meat.  But it’s rare for me to have meat as the main part of the meal.  My BLT is as much, or more, LETTUCE and TOMATO than bacon.  The Big Greek Cafe gyro does have a fair amount of meat.  But look at Wednesday.  I had the gyro, and I had a ham and cheese sandwich for breakfast, and for dinner I had a vegetable taco salad with beans and cheese, sour cream, tomato, salsa, on a tortilla. 

I noticed my meat pattern because when I woke up today, I did get hungry at all until 11AM.  When I looked in my journal – yes, Thursday I had brats for lunch and meat mania platter for dinner.  The calories were under control but it was a lot of meat in one day!  I am not used to it.

Meat for dinner! Spare ribs.

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – tea (80)

  • 80 calories

Lunch – Leftover meat mania platter from yesterday with meatball (80); sausage (150); and chicken (100); plus some chicken pieces from Costco (100);

  • 430 calories 

Dinner – 250 grams baby back rib meat, not counting the bones (500); 

  • 500 calories

Snacking – pretzels (120) and cheese (80); 2x Reese’s PBCs (80); Snickers ice cream bar (180); 

  • 540 calories

Total for the day: 1570 calories (limit 1850)

Am I done?

1570 calories for the day is not a lot, and I have to be careful that I don’t start feeling deprived or resentful, by eating too little and not meeting my physical needs.  That’s not good for the weight control mindset.  To fix that, I may have more tea later.  I had some for breakfast, and I count the half and half I put in my tea: 80 calories.  So it may end up as 1650 calories for the day.  Still, not a lot of calories.  Either way, my average calories per day this week will be under 1800.  Oh, I didn’t try to count the barbecue sauce that came on the ribs I had tonight – that would add a few calories.  

Anyway, with all this meat in my system I also feel the need for sweets afterward.  I keep all kinds in the house, so I that don’t feel like I am punishing myself.  Many people say that when you are trying to lose weight you should remove temptation from the house.  But I have ice cream, bar chocolate, peanut butter cups, other candy bars, etc., lying around.  It doesn’t bother me, since I have managed to convince myself that I am not deprived.  So there is not much temptation there.  A lot of temptation is born of resentment.

What I do find difficult is the slow pace of weight loss.  You can practice weight control all week and not look any different at the end of it.  I had lost almost 70 pounds before any of my friends or acquaintances noticed or mentioned it.  I shouldn’t complain, since it clearly took a long time for my weight to increase all that way.  

I just bought a cookbook for pressure cooker meals.  You’ll be seeing a few of those recipes soon!

-The Doctor

20200625 Daily report restaurantation

Weight control is a worthwhile goal and like all good things, it takes some effort to get there.  And you have to maintain it – it is a lifestyle.  Remember that every person you see who has maintained a thin weight has to work to get there.  There is no naturally thin person…excepting people with medical conditions.  This isn’t to say there aren’t people in the world who don’t get enough to eat.  But let’s keep the focus on us, and our common problem: a lack of weight control and chronic overweight.  Being in control of your weight doesn’t make you a better person.  But it does mean you are paying attention to your body and you are in control of its weight.  So far as you have a reputation in the world, some of it is how you appear to others.   Yes, you can choose how you are going to appear.  It takes some control, but not in the way you think.

My lunch has the appearance of sausages

My food intake and calorie count

Breakfast – Costco half cheese pizza slice (380)

  • 380 calories

Lunch – 2x Kirkland bratwurst (280); half a whole wheat wrap (55)

  • 615 calories 

Dinner – Meat Mania platter at Mama Lucia’s restaurant (600); garlic bread (100);

  • 700 calories

Snacking – pretzels (120); 

  • 120 calories

Total for the day: 1815 calories (limit 1850)

Can't force it

You can’t make yourself do things.  Everybody knows this.  You can’t stop smoking, or drinking.  You can’t make yourself go to the gym, or lose weight.  OK, you can stop procrastinating (tomorrow).  Yet people do manage to lose weight, sometimes a lot of weight.  Some manage to keep control afterwards.  I have thought a lot about the differences between thin people (in control) and overweight people (out of control).  You can see differences in behavior.  But you can’t easily make yourself act like a thin person, at least, not without understanding their thinking and being able to adopt it for yourself.

Part of it is the deprivation.  Someone like me who was out of control, was unable to successfully diet because I used willpower to force myself to eat less food.  Part of me felt deprived and unhappy, even though I was doing exactly as I said I wanted!  I could never diet for more than a few weeks, using force.

Today, I had pizza, bratwurst sausages, and an Italian meat platter (meatballs, sausages, chicken, roasted vegetables) for dinner.  And I didn’t feel even a little deprived, and my calorie intake was under control, and when I get on the scale Saturday I will be amazed if I haven’t lost 1-2 pounds from last week.  The point is: I didn’t need to use any force because I didn’t feel deprived.  I ate exactly what I wanted AND I stayed within a calorie budget.  

Part of a secret is that the thin person’s goal for eating is to stay thin and in control of their body.  They are always watching to make sure they don’t eat too much.  They know their body and they know how it feels when they have had to much, and their goal is to make sure that doesn’t happen.  You will find that satisfying physical hunger only takes a few bites of food.  Everything after that is inertia – keeping on eating because the first bites were nice and it’s on your plate.  An overweight or out of control eater, like I used to be, is much more concerned that they feel full.  You can train yourself to eat quite a lot before you get a full feeling.  If you do that for every meal, the consequences are obvious.  

How is this miracle achieved, of changing your goal for eating, and taking deprivation out of the equation?  Ah, keep reading.

-The Doctor

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