4/8/11

Breakfast: scrambled egg with onion, 1 blackberry pecan pancake
Snack: apple with almond butter
Lunch: green salad, 4 leftover meatballs

It's just 1:30, and I'm feeling like maybe I'm hungry again. As I said before, I am trying to re-set my brain to make sure I am actually physically hungry before I eat. So, I'm waiting for snack time (2:45 at the earliest). I had an epiphany this morning that I have been in "grazing" mode for so long that I actually haven't let my body get physically hungry many times in the past year and a half. As a result of that, several times in the past few days, I've thought, "Hey! I'm hungry!" and I experience automatic mild indignation followed by STRONG impulse to pop something in my mouth. It occurred to me that hungry is kind of a natural feeling, and that I could probably remain in that hunger state for 15 to 30 minutes before eating something. It's usually not long until a meal or snack time. I'm hoping that building the new habits of mindfulness and God-centeredness will eventually replace the habit of "Pop goes the cracker!"