Day 2, Nathaly: 1/2 snacks make me happy

Here I am, 10:30pm on the evening of day 2 and I'm, surprisingly, not hungry.

I've been hungry 8 times today, but I only cheated twice. Once by finishing my slice of toast along with lunch and a second time by having a couple chunks of cheese & crackers off a friend's late afternoon snack. Pretty good, I think, especially since 1/2 a slice of buttered toast (delicious locally made 7-grain, may I add) is a pretty meager breakfast. I tried to do stymie the urge to jump on a hobbit-like portion of second breakfast by eating 1/2 of a Saturn peach (I love local VT foods in the summer!), but even that couldn't keep me from snarfing the rest of the slice of toast as a supplement to my kind of pathetic-looking 1/2 slice of pizza.

The goat cheese wasn't an indulgence based on hunger, but rather caused by that lifelong urge to never throw away food, so I've been good about only serving myself the correct amounts of food right from the outset and trying my best to eat slowly to stretch out the lovely experience of eating for as long as possible. I snarfed dinner a little too quickly, but it was 8:30pm by the time we managed to get rid of our guests and get to the exercises.

Anyways, a pretty good day overall, I think. The 1/2 snacks thing definitely helped get me through the time between lunch and dinner. And that reminds me of a victory -- no maple creemee on my way home from the office! I'm trying my best to reduce my sugar and sodium intake, as per Patrick's suggestions; taming my sweet tooth will be a huge part of this journey.

OK -- Thanks SO much to the all you PCP community folks who are out there lending your virtual support and being such great examples -- such a boost! Thanks y'all!