Eating Healthy & Losing Weight - Part 2

I was inspired by Kim at http://homesteadersheart.blogspot.com/ to turn a new leaf in the new year with my health and eating habits. As I've thought about it over the last few days and tried to make some small, beginning changes, I've decided the best approach for me is going to be Paul McKenna's approach. He was on TLC last spring here in the U.S. with a mini-series called "I Can Make You Thin" and when I stuck with his program, it worked.

What's different with this plan is that it teaches you how to eat. That may sound overly simplistic, but we in the Western world are so conditioned to eating wrong that we don't even realize that we're doing it. One of our biggest faults is eating by sight. We feel guilty if we don't "clean our plate" and end up eating more food than our bodies need. If you sit down with a plate of food that, looking at it, you think is a "normal" portion, but eat one bite at a time with your eyes closed, you will find that your body (stomach) sends a clear signal that it's full before you "clean your plate!"

The biggest feature in this plan is that no food is excluded. For health reasons I am obviously not going to exist on a diet of doughnuts just because I love them. But I am allowed to have one if I want to. By allowing me to choose any food I want when I am hungry, I am eliminating the inevitable craving for "forbidden" foods that so often leads to binging and falling off the wagon.

My personal battle will be with "picking." Eating out of boredom. I find I do that a LOT late in the day, and when I'm in the kitchen preparing dinner. Must. Stop.

So, I'll update here once a week to post on my progress. Feel free to comment as I would love the encouragement!

Eating Healthy & Losing Weight

I found this post this morning on a fellow blogger's site, and thought it would be a good idea to follow along!

Homesteaders Heart: Eating Healthy & Losing Weight- Let's take baby steps!



Kim is always full of great ideas for practical living and this promises to be no different. I'm excited to have something reasonable to attain to as far as my health and weight in the new year.


Now, if I could just motivate myself to get to that Decluttering Project...!