1 post tagged “the incredible shrinking woman”
I've been on many diets before; I've even been on Weight Watchers before. This time, though, there's just a different feel to it somehow. I've never been so aware of my hunger. And let me tell you, mama is HONGRY. I don't mean to imply that this is a bad thing, by any means. No, I think that it's actually helping me stay on point. It reminds me that I'm making progress and keeps me on track.
That being said, I kinda feel like I have a new friend that goes along with me everywhere I go. Sometimes it drifts away, but it always returns, like a witch's familiar. I tuck it up beside me when I drift off to sleep, with dinner a distant rumble in my tummy. I shove it aside (not now, busy!) at work, despite it's persistant tugs for attention. When I do deign to answer it's call, it always feels like too little, too late. Everything that goes into my mouth is promptly decimated with cries of more, more, more! I picture razor sharp teeth springing out of the walls of my stomach like magic and reducing any nutritional material to neutrons in five seconds flat. It's like I have a puppy with pica living in my gullet, always looking upwards with an eager, panting grin.
I don't know why this change has come about, but it's taken some getting used to. Now that I'm a little ways into this whole thing, I feel like I'm getting betterat at listening when I need to, and ignoring it when I need to. Bored doesn't = hungry after all. Heeeeey! Maybe I'm actually...learning good eating habits! Weird.