- Decide What Is Important to You
- Take Action
Remember these items from my last post? Hah! Easier said than done.
For me, it was clear – the important things to me at the moment are intuitively eating to weight loss and re-engaging with my non-computer hobbies. Note: I noticed a gap in Colby’s list: she didn’t say “what is important to you that you don’t have yet,” but I believe that is what she meant. I want those two things, but not at the expense of my family or my income, etc.
Anyway, those are the two things I want. So what did I do yesterday? Ate way full at 2 different meals and spent the evening away from my hobbies at an estate planning seminar. Theoretically, if I were following items 1 and 2 above, I would have eaten very light meals and done a hobby yesterday.
This actually doesn’t bother me, though. I recognize that the intuitive eating is more than just “always” eating “right,” because that’s just a diet. It’s building the intuition to eat what I want when I want it, and being in tune enough with my body to know when enough means it’s time to eat less for a while. So yesterday, I ate a fabulous chicken dish at work, and we happened to eat out at dinner. I knew I didn’t want any meat, and didn’t want a heavy meal. My intuitive choices were between a tomato/mozzarella salad and a spaghetti with just olive oil and parmesan. I chose the spaghetti because the mozzarella seemed too heavy, and ate the whole thing.
Today I find it very easy to compensate for that larger-than-average food intake. Breakfast was half normal, and lunch was back to normal, with extra veggies, less fat and fewer starches. All chosen intuitively to make me feel good. I even threw extra food away. I plan to keep that up until I feel the intuitive need for a heavier meal again.
The hobbies? Oh well, you can’t win them all. Let’s see what happens tonight.
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