2nd Monday Weigh in

Here are the 2nd Monday stats:

262 #'s Loss to date -8 #
43 BF -2%
41 BW +1%

With weeks to go before I will beat my goal of 260 by 04/01/08 there is no real pressure to make that goal but the weekly weigh in keeps me aware of my "day to day".

The only significant thing to report right now is that I am becoming aware that my attitudes about food are changing. I am thinking about things differently and that is turning out to be a VERY good thing. On restrictive diets I always crave those things I can't have like Pizza and eating healthy is sometimes a chore...something I begrudgingly force myself to do in order to loose weight. Now that my focus is on being healthy things are different. Right now I don't feel deprived at all and I don't want any Pizza. I'm sure I will eat some sooner or later but right now it's not what I feel like doing because the timing is not right.

I'm not sure if I can properly describe this but my focus has shifted away from the food as (the thing I want to eat) to food as (the thing that can get me the protein, carbs, specific nutrients, etc) at the times I want them. It sounds really clinical that way but it's not once it gets on the plate and I'll keep posting food examples of what I'm eating because building a menu is pretty important.

I was reading a guys website..I think is name sounds something like Berandi and his big thing is that you must make your house a safe place for nutrition. The rest of the world has enough nutritional land mines waiting for you so stocking good food and having a bunch of options on how to use it is essential. At least that is my version of what the guy whos name I just butchered said.

My Body water % BTW is damn near impossible to bring up to 45% but I am having a floating good time trying to do it. :) I'm positive drinking this good clean water is healthy so it's all good but for now the +1% is all I can get.

EDIT: apologies to Dr. Berardi for calling him Berandi... :) Here is a link.