how to lose weight

my thoughts this evening on how i'm losing weight, and my theories on how to do it:

1. cultivate a mindset that a lot of the food that is out there is BAD. read up on the list of chemical additives in your food, and get to know what they can do to the body. sure, they say they are safe becuase they are in small quantities, but add up all the foods they are in, and it's not small quantities anymore.

2. when you look at that burger, mac and cheese, chocolate bar, honey mustard chicken salad, donut, refried beans, etc, look at the list of ingredients. try to pronounce them. if you followed step one, some of them will be familiar, and you appetite for that food may well decrease. never mind the calories, look at the fake stuff: the additives, the hydrogenated oils, the flavor enhancers, the preservatives.... fake stuff. chemicals, or chemically produced.

3. if, after seriously considering what you are about to put into your body, and you still decide you want it (note: YOU still want it, not your cravings still want it!)... then eat it. after all, you're body is a complex creation of God, and can handle SOME junk, lol. deprivation is like, dude, the bestest way to instigate those cravings, y'know?

4. ask God if He wants you to eat it. if He says no, obey Him. if He says you may, then be wise, but not legalistic. if He says, girl, today is a feast day and just enjoy My bounty, then eat! and don't fret about it! and if the enemy comes in and tries to make you feel guilty, stomp his head!

5. forget to eat. keep yourself busy, and when you are really hungry enough that it's dragging your attention from what you're doing, it's time to eat. grab a nectarine or a banana, make some toast and cheese, get that bluberry bran muffin with real butter you drool over from tim's.... eat real food, eat enough to kill the hunger, and don't linger. for example, i get so busy typing or whatever that i'll often forget to eat until mom comes up with a tray! i missed dinner tonight becuase i was so busy, i had a glass of milk to put something in my tummy before i headed out the door, and that did me for the evening, until i got home and snacked on sugar snap peas, baby tomatoes, and a piece of mum's yummy apple crisp, and another glass of milk. real food.

6. eating on the run? think ahead as to what you WILL eat, what will keep you from getting hungry again in a short time, and what you are willing to put in your body. if i'm out and about and really need to pick something up to eat, my wise choice is a cheese croissant from tim's, heated up. becuase i can eat only one (sometimes two) and it keeps me running for a good long time, and the fat and cheese in it far outways the crappy carbs in it, so my blood sugar doesn't go crazy. yeah, it's got who knows what kind of fat, but our bodies can handle some junk (see step 3)... and it's not every day. and it's better than a donut (which are yucky anyway! lol ~ see step 2). so for me, that's a wise choice. becuase, to be honest, if i tell myself that i must get a salad..... i wont. raw veggies just don't sit well on my stomach. and if i make myself eat a salad, i'll probably wind up feeling so danged yucky that i add a danged donut to the danged salad becuase by then i'm danged irritable that i feel so danged deprived because of a danged legalistic rule that says "i shouldn't have a danged croissant, i MUST get a danged salad".... and decide i'm gonna danged well get a danged donut, so danged there!