I’m experimenting with portion sizes at the moment. Right now, I’m not sure how little food satisfies me, so I waited for breakfast this morning until I knew I had to eat something. Then I ate one Ritz cracker.
That went into me like a puff of smoke. The only impact it had on my hunger was about 30 seconds of chewing, swallowing and feeling it enter my stomach. Then I went to shower and knew I’d want to eat something else later after I was ready for work.
When I went downstairs, I went all the way down to the basement to look in the pantry as well as change the laundry. There’s a ton of food in our pantry, and we’re actually trying to eat some of it down. Looking around, I noticed how much chocolate was there, next to the staples like flour and sugar. But I didn’t want chocolate, I wanted fruit.
It didn’t matter much which fruit I chose, so I grabbed a can of peaches. After I got back to the kitchen, I discovered that pineapple was already open, so I ate that instead. Actually, I didn’t even eat more than about half a cup. And that was breakfast.
I chose that portion size because it ended hunger without stuffing me, and I knew I wanted to enjoy my lunch, which was a pasta dish. The end result? I got busy at work and that portion size held me nicely til lunch.
Lunch was deliberately larger, but I chose to balance the pasta and meat with a salad. Lately I’ve moved to basalmic dressing instead of a creamy salad dressing, and haven’t missed it, like I expected I would.
No plans for dinner tonight, but if I can skip it, I will. Skipping dinner is another experience I’d like to try.
My positives:
- My dreams are pretty cool. Today I dreamed of guys softly crashing tiny planes onto a highway. I stopped my car and took a La-Z-Boy chair further along Highway I-75.
- I had a great work attitude this morning, and can sense that it will continue this afternoon.
- I feel strong, even in my legs
- Ethan Hawke just said, “Follow your bliss,” and that sounds like a pretty good philosophy to me
- I’d still like to write a screenplay. Maybe planes will crash-land onto a highway.
[…] 2007 by livingrainbowcolor After that few days, I began to wonder if my portion sizes would stay so small. Today I notice that they are pretty much back to normal. Yesterday I ate quite normally at lunch, […]