My Daily Food Intake - Monday, March 3 

• Breakfast - Coffee at 6:15 A.M. Ate 2 pieces turkey bacon and half a cinnamon roll (the kind you cook) Drank about 6 ounces 2% milk.
• Snack - Ate a piece of carrot cake less than an hour later. Drank milk with it.
• Lunch - Oh no! It's 10 AM and I'm already filling a plate with about half a rice casserole. Again, I ate until miserable. Couldn't even make a dent in the plate. Drank a Coke with it.
• Snack -
• Dinner -

I Am Really Enjoying This Book on Mindless Eating! 

I bought this because the title just jumped out at me in Barnes and Noble. Reading it, I'm amazed at how often we think we're in control, when we're really not!

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

by Brian Wansink

Amazon Price: $9.60 (as of 07/26/2008)
List Price: $12.00

"Take back the reins when it comes to deciding how much you'e going to eat - at home and on the go. You're going to be shocked at how little you're controlling your own nutritional needs!"

Release Date: 08/28/2007

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Emotions About Weight Issues 

• Other People's Weight Problems - This morning my husband was very cold and moody. I knew something was wrong, asked, but got no answers.
  
  Later he told me he's mad because he's back up to 210 and was 180, angry that he let himself get this out of control. He left to get out of the house.
  
  I don't know what's going on in his head, but what I feel is that he gets mad about his own weight and then looks at me with the same anger because I'm overweight, too. I don't know - because I'm not him. so now I feel anxious, nervous - and worried about how the rest of the day will go.
  
  He tends to do what I used to do on a diet - go full tilt boogie until burnout and quitting until the next time. Only with him, he lasts 1-3 months a pop while I only lasted 1-3 days max.
  
  Here's how it affects me - aside from feeling sorry for him, I start to feel like, "Why aren't I feeling angry at MYself, shouldn't I be pissed off at MYself, too? Is he mad at ME?" (It feels that way - like he's looking at me, and just annoyed with all fat people in general.)
• Other People's Weight Loss Success - Now that my husband's annoyed about his weight, he's going full steam ahead. Eating like a rabbit, as he puts it, working out twice a day - running in the morning for a full hour and then working out at night.
  
  I don't know why but seeing him mix his protein shakes or run in the morning annoys me. I just wish he'd take a more reasonable approach - something he won't burn out on like I have done for so many years.
  
  Why do I care? Why does it bug ME? I know he'll lose everything super fast, get back down to 180 in about 4 weeks, and then he'll burn out and quit and gain it back slowly. It's a cycle.

Fiction, But Such a Good Read for Women With Weight Problems 

She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)

by Wally Lamb

Amazon Price: $7.99 (as of 07/26/2008)
List Price: $7.99

"While my own issues were nothing like the catastrophes she faced, I still enjoyed reading about how she used food to quell her anxiety. We all do this to a certain degree - those of us who battle weight problems."

Release Date: 12/31/1969

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Tip About Missing Meals! 

My dietician, Jennifer Pereira, talked to me about an issue I had about missing meals.

I would sometimes forget breakfast and snack and wind up starving by lunchtime. Should I eat a LOT then or what do I do? I asked.

Her reply helped me Sunday, February 24th. I had woken up late and it was already 1:45 when I was ready for my snack or lunch. So I did what she taught me.

I made the snack and ate it while I was cooking my lunch. That little head start made me only eat a fraction of my lunch. If I hadn't had the snack, I'm sure I would have scarfed the entire lunch.

Another thing she told me when I'm at that uncontrollable hunger phase is to have some water before I eat and then eat slowly. It's working!

Visit My Dietician's Lens on Squidoo! 

Born to Eat Healthy - A Return to Instinctive Eating

Eating has become a seemingly tricky thing. It's ironic to think that we came into this world as babies knowing how to do it perfectly for our bodies, and somewhere along the way, we forgot. It has to be one of the few things we get less good at as...

Do You Feel Abnormal Because of the Way You Eat? 

Logitco I love your lens. There's a lot of frustration and pain when it comes to a goal that seems almost impossible to achieve. My own problems aren't weight focused, but I noticed many parallels between your dissatisfaction with your body and my own with my personal situation. Instead of eating, I played video games... but your mental thought processes were basically the same as mine! I'd get frustrated, play a game, and then get chastise myself for playing the game when I could have been working towards my goals! (More career oriented) My food relationship is excellent being a foodie, but I just wanted to give you a thumbs-up on your lens! Posted May 09, 2008

Evelyn_Saenz What a great lens! 5 stars and favored! The Fair Committee is looking for suggestions for healthy food to be sold at the Wardsboro 4th of July Celebration. Please leave suggestions in the Healthy Food Suggestion Box . Posted May 08, 2008