Letting Food Actually Nourish You

Taking Control of My Weight ~ Day 5

Well, I'm happy to announce I've lost 2 pounds! Pretty amazing since I haven't actually started any pre planned food modification or 'diet'. Seems the very act of observing my eating behavior and evaluating the quality of food I'm consuming has a positive effect on my goal of getting a healthy weight. Here's a few examples.

I had to get back to the store but was hungry yesterday afternoon. So I was making a beeline to the Angle food cake  but had to pass the lovely bowl of fruit I have on the kitchen island. The old me would have been stuffing the cake and feeling proud it was a lower calorie choice than ice cream or cookies. The NEW me
considered the actually energetic value of the choices. I grabbed the apple and headed out the door. So I'm eating and driving and and the little voice in my head said, "You're not letting the apple nourish you." Have to admit that was true. I was chomping and swallowing a very tasty apple while negotiating driving.

So I pulled into a parking lot with a lovely view of some trees and finished my delicious apple slowly and with gratitude. Tasting the tart crisp juicy fruit was satisfying my need for something sweet. My mouth was getting those strong flavors and texture I like so much and my body was getting some actual real food! A win-win!

Conclusion

A lot of my body fat energetically represents non-food calories that my body didn't need or couldn't use. Those old "empty calories" they talk about.

So here's your challenge. Post below the last item you ate that you feel guilty about.
1) Why do you feel guilty?
2) How do you feel about your excess weight.
3) What if anything do those 2 emotions have to do with each other? Be honest. No judgements here.

Day 3 ~ Taking Control of my Weight

Resolution

I can see why so many people fail at achieving weight loss... it's only day three, I'm only 'observing' my eating, not modifying it and I'm ready to quit all this nonsense! Energetic patterns (habits) are really strong and take some real effort to overcome or change. Thank goodness I'm doing this blog because believe me, I'd be happy to stop all this silliness right now and slink back into my old patterns. No one would know, right? Seriously, who's idea was this anyway!? 

There's something to be said for accountability. I can see big sweeping patterns throughout my life that I've constructed to minimize my accountability. I don't like having to 'explain' myself to someone or justify my behavior. As a uber control freak that's understandable. So why am I am publishing a blog for the world to see? While we don't need to be accountable to others, we DO need to be accountable to God and to ourselves. Our physical bodies are reflections of our vibrational patterns. And when I look at the things I CAN control in and on my physical body, I have to say I'm NOT impressed. It's easy to talk about getting old stale energy patterns out of your daily life ~ maybe NOT so easy to do. Step 1 is to identify what's working and what could be fine tuned.

Here is one of my favorite videos that shows clearly how vibrations affect the physical. In the video it show how different patterns form at different frequencies. It is important to note that before the NEW pattern can form the OLD pattern has to break up.


So what is one thing in your life that you would like to change? Post below.

Taking Control of my Weight ~ Day 2 Observation Continues

First, I think a bit of explanation about what you can expect from following this blog. There is a gazillion dollar industry full of diet experts and gurus that can and will tell you the nutrition and physicality of achieving a healthy weight. That's NOT what I'm going to talk about. I'm going to talk about MY experience and MY energy blocks and hopefully you will see something that inspires or enlightens you in your journey. I'll be talking about the ENERGETIC reasons behind unbalanced body. Not the specifics of calories and exercise. That said... Let's pull the curtain back and explore what's REALLY going on.

Dinner last night. (It's important to note that I'm aware I can watch my fave TV shows On Demand later at my convenience.) My resolve crumbled as Grey's Anatomy started and I migrated with my plate to the TV tray that stays up by my recliner. Oh. Wow. I just realized the message of having a TV tray (complete with place mat) permanently out and waiting for me to eat in front of TV. Hmmm... I can take some solace from the name, "TV Tray" in that apparently I'm not the only one that has this behavior. Good! Lessens my guilt ever so slightly. I'd tell you about what dinner encompassed, but let's just say I really didn't pay much attention. But it wasn't all that pretty... and it might have involved some less than healthy Better Cheddar smoked sausages.

Conclusion... Well, I've put in place some mechanisms that make it easy to keep doing what I'm doing, like keeping the TV tray out instead of having to hassle with getting it out, putting a fresh place mat down and missing some of my TV show. Is it bad to eat in front of the TV show? Not necessarily. BUT if I don't want to continue to look and feel like I do, then I can't keep doing what I'm doing. Putting the consumption of food, which is a critical mission to my health, behind a fictional world (TV show) probably won't assist me in achieving the balance I want for my physical body.

Taking Control of my Weight ~ Day 1

Become Aware of what I'm eating and how.
So in order to know what steps to take, I decided I should figure out what I'm doing that is working and what needs to be 'twiqued'. So Awareness is my step 1. Plan is to track and blog about the next few days.

Lunch ~ Thursday 3/26
Not overly hungry, but 'time' to eat. My regular lunch = Lean roast beef on Everything Bagel, ranch dressing on bagel, lettuce, tomato, cheddar cheese. Tortilla chips and a diet coke. Estimated about 750 calories. I'll calculate later.

I really had to fight the urge to eat mindlessly while watching TV or reading news on my smart phone. But good lesson. I'm not paying attention to one of the most IMPORTANT things I do for my life. Eating with purpose. Yikes. OK. so I payed attention to the food. First, it seemed like a lot. I continued eating well past when I felt full, but was compelled to 'finish the food' I had prepared. The beef was very flavorful, I liked the bagel. The salty chips were a great crunch and I like salt. The Diet Coke really seemed very much like a pleasant tasting chemical liquid. It caused a very strong burning sensation in my mouth. Not very refreshing but I liked the sensation it created in my mouth. My other drink of choice is unsweetened Iced Tea. I didn't drink it for lunch but it always seems refreshing to me. I feel full but I would happily down a handful of chocolate candies or munch several Girl Scout cookies. Good thing I don't have either. :-)

Conclusion ~ I have a set of habits and foods that I haven't evaluated or adjusted lately
to better serve the ACTUAL needs of my body, and I like foods that create strong sensations in my mouth.