Good morning everyone
I have two really awesome pieces of news to share....the first, and best, is that my son is home!
After almost 6 weeks gone, first to a Lead America program in Washington DC and then half the summer break with his father in NY, he's finally sitting on the couch, having a cup of tea and a big bowl of fresh cut fruit salad (watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple, grapes and fresh blueberries) with me.
The second piece of amazing news is that, after one week in this new way of eating, with
no hunger and
no cravings for bad stuff.....I've lost a jaw-dropping
6 pounds! I know that rate of weight loss won't continue (and probably wouldn't be healthy), but I am blown away. The craziest part is that I am not measuring my fats as strictly as the guidelines say and am being downright generous with the salad dressing, fresh avocado, olives, etc., and I also ate dark chocolate (about 200 calories worth) on the day I wanted it.
Scoote and I were trying to figure out when I stopped using artificial sweeteners and diet sodas....maybe a month, maybe 6 weeks ago...and since then all kinds of crazy food cravings have vanished. Not only do I not crave sweets, but I'm not craving chips and baked stuff either.
Yesterday I was running late for lunch and grabbed 3 big handfuls of the organic baby greens I'm loving these days, a big blob of the homemade chicken salad that I made for Scoote, about half a can of canellini beans, HALF an avocado and slathered it all with my homemade dressing. It was drop dead delicious, and certainly didn't feel like "diet" anything.
Breakfast this morning....Greek yogurt (my new love), the aforementioned fresh fruit salad and coffee.....ahhhhhh. I feel good.