Wow---an actual original idea about weight loss. Thanks again 300poundsdown! There's an article from Psychology today http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/choke/201107/training-the-brain-avoid-temptation that talks about how stronger executive function in the brain (like memory) helps with impulse control. OKAY! I need to take luminosity more seriously. My memory is getting weaker by the minute--might be time to actually do something about it.
In the meantime---today is ice-cream diet day. Happily, it's one of those days where it feels as though I have plenty of calories (I don't, only 1200). But I was careful about dinner. Both dinner and breakfast have very few calories so I have a reasonably hefty lunch AND amazingly two snacks. Good snacks too. Popcorn and then blueberries and brie cheese. One thing that will be helpful about today is the timing of the bowl of butter pecan ice-cream. Normally, I like to have desserts--well, food in general, at the end of the day. It signals that the work of the day is over and that I'm relaxing. But today, I have harp lesson unusually late at 8:30. It would be better if I ate the ice-cream earlier. If I do that then the ice-cream will be just what it is--ice-cream. Yummy, but that's all. That's an emotion that I need to practice.
The other emotion I need to practice is patience. My brain is fine with the fact that my sweater is still too tight. My emotions on the other hand are complaining loud and clear--after all, I've been good for what? FIVE whole days now! I feel great and have lost that bloated feeling. But my clothes are still tight! What's the problem??? Sometimes it would be so nice to be a vulcan.
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