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So I am done with Day 2. It went pretty well. Although I am craving these Brach's cinnamon starlight mints. They are the best. I would eat a couple of them, so I wouldn't eat cookies, candy, or ice cream. I ate them while I was on Weight Watchers. I added the candy to my daily point value...how healthy is that...lol But I miss eating them, but I know this is for the best and that craving is fleeting so instead I grapped a piece of fruit, like frozen grapes and the cravings go away. Simple you think? It's all a mind game. I am psyching myself out. I am determined to lose the weight, so I am not tempted.

It is so funny, it seems like everybody around me has been eating all kinds of junk food, fried foods, chocolate, breads. Everything that I am not eating right now. At first I was a little upset. Thinking that that they were not being supportive, but you know whatever. It's  making me realize just how much temptaion I can handle.

I have also been feeling as if I am eating soooooooo much food. Eating 4-5 small meals a day is wild. The concept of eating more to lose weight is so foreign. I have definitely heard of it before, but actually utilizing it for myself was out of the question. My concept was always starve yourself and work out a little. Or work out and eat whatever you want. Neither of those worked, because by the time I was finishing starving myself for the day, that night I was in the fridge grapping anything and everything, because I was just that hungry. Horrible I know, but that's how it was. And working out everyday and eating what you wanted did not help me lose anything. Although I really didn't gain that much either. I really only maintained the weight that I wanted to lose. So that didn't work either.

So I defintely have to change my mindset. Especially since I am eating smaller portions, and eating until I am comfortably full and not stuffed. Which means that I don't eat everything on my plate. Yes...I said it leave food on my plate. Right, if you were raised like myself. You were taught to eat everything on your plate, because kids in Africa were starving. So that made me feel guilty. So now it's difficult, but I'm getting the hang of it. I hate wasting food, but I hate being fat even more...so being fat wins that fight.

So everything is going good. I am working out an hour or more EVERYDAY...yes riding my bike everyday. So we are on a roll. Let's see how Day 3 ends...