4th Monday

Here are the #'s for my 4th Monday weigh in:

257 (-13# to date)
44% fat
43% water

I seriously have no idea why the fat% isn't moving yet but I think it will by next Monday...it has to. I am adding muscle and water so the fat% has to be getting smaller it's just not showing up yet.

A month in and I am very happy with where I'm at. I do get aggravated that I can't go faster or do more but logically I realize it's a gradual process and things are going good.

I got a bit nervous a few days ago just because I was never hungry that day. I thought about not being hungry most days and how un-diet like that is. I'm not feeling deprived of junk foods and I spend zero time starving because "I'm on a diet". I guess I'm not on a diet but my food choices have changed so dramatically that my body and food are having to get to know each other again.

It's just very strange to be loosing weight without going hungry and feeling deprived 24x7. Add to that getting exercise, getting stronger, healthier overall. All of that without the typical "diet"...it is sort of strange getting used to for people that have been conditioned to believe the standard diet system(s). It takes some getting used to and time to mentally accept that we don't have to suffer to eat healthy.

Even loosing this weight last time I had to suffer hundreds of meals I hated and spent every day from 8pm or so until I fell asleep starving. Hunger pains with growling stomach because I believed you should never eat carbs after 5pm or anything really but carbs for sure. So I got to where being really hungry at 9pm or so equated to me doing a good job on my diet. If I wasn't hungry than I would have too much food to burn at night instead of fat. I believed all sorts of things. :(

Now I believe we should just eat the healthiest cleanest foods we can.

In a nutshell that is my food plan right now, I guess I could add to eat 4-5 meals a day every 3-4 hours making sure you eat breakfast but that is as far as I'm willing to define it at the moment. Eventually I will structure more details into my new food belief system (as I come to believe them based on trial and error) but I'm going to intentionally keep it as simple as possible.

My food belief system

#1) Eat healthy foods several times per day and drink plenty of water.
#2) to be continued....