Successful dinner!

I can't believe how much just writing things down is helping! Everyone always says that by writing things down you're inclined to eat less because you don't want to admit how much you're eating. That doesn't work for me---maybe because I know that that's what it's supposed to be doing, so I'm obstinate and rebel. Besides, it doesn't bother me to acknowledge that I've eaten three pieces of cake. But what IS helping is actually physically seeing everything I'm eating---I can SEE that I'm having plenty, and since I'm not managing calories or anything else just now, I feel safer to not have to eat everything. That's the intuitive eating approach--but without the compulsive over-thinking that I was trying when I was really trying to do intuitive eating. I'm not reflecting on my level of fullness at every bite, or worrying about whether or not I really need that snack. I'm just enjoying the learning and it's having a really good effect on me!!!

Yesterday's breakfast:
2 strips of bacon, large glass of milk (the usual size is 8 oz), lite bagel with garden veggie cream cheese.

Exercise: walk to work and a REALLY good kettlebell workout. I'm proud of that workout. She strapped us to heart rate monitors and mine was right up there with the rest of the class--also, I was able to complete every repetition of every move and keep right up with the 20-somethings in the class. Great job--me!!

Snack: raw yam sticks

Lunch: pizza pocket, about 70 goldfish (55 is a serving), a "salad" made with a whole can of black beans, 1 tomato and about 1/3 cup of feta cheese with balsamic vinegar. I ate the whole thing and was still not overfull. This made me wonder about healthy fats. I don't think I'm getting enough. That blackbean salad should have had some olive oil, but I forgot. I'm a little afraid of adding extra fat to things because I already overeat on fatty foods, but not necessarily good fatty foods.

2 mini dark chocolates.

Dinner: Fancy omelette with fried potatoes.  The omelette was two eggs and two egg whites with mushrooms, onions, red peppers, ham and cheese--that was mixed with the eggs, then inside the fold was two strips of bacon, some avocado and more cheese. In other words, not light. I aiming to copy a good restaurant omelette and I think I succeeded. Here's the exciting part--I stopped eating halfway through!!!  Dinner has always been the most difficult meal for me to handle, but I realized that the omelette was huge and that I would be perfectly fine with half and also be able to take half for lunch the next day. So I stopped and it wasn't that big of a deal.

Dessert: 2 chocolate chip cookies. Knowing that I wanted and could have the cookies helped me to stop at dinner. Is it good to stop eating good food so I can eat junk? Welllll.......yes, I think so. It's never to "save room for, " because there is ALWAYS room for cookies. What I stopped was eating hundred of more calories for dinner in addition to the cookies which I would have had anyway.