cindylynnwho- Журнал, 29 мар 08

You can see my picture better now because MillaLite lightened it for me. Thanks again, ML! My new thumbnail was really hard to see before.

I already posted today but wanted to post again to remind myself of a couple more things:

Put thought into preparing a healthy variety of delicious foods. I have gotten into a boring rut. It helps, but also doesn't help, that I am a member of a community supported agriculture group. This means that they send me local organic produce every week. Its a wonderful deal, good for the environment amd delicious, and sometimes I am forced to try new things that I wouldn't have otherwise tried, and am pleasantly surprised. But othertimes I feel stuck with things that I don't particularly like and don't want to waste them.

I want to get a little magnetized menu planner to plan out healthy delicious meals. I saw one at the dollar store and was thinking of getting it but wasn't sure if I would use it. Now I am sure. I will have to go back. I can find ways to use these unappealing vegatables if I only plan more. Plus, planning will help me in other ways-- remembering to use up about-to-spoil food, or food that I am just not using out of habit, remembering to try recipes I want to try, and remembering to soak beans or nuts for the night or thaw fish.

For some reason, when I really put my mind to putting self-love and effort and creativity into the preparation of my meals, I lose weight a lot faster. This is in part because the satisfaction I get from such carefully prepared food leaves me wanting to eat less. But the difference in the speed of my weight loss is so great that I think there is something more... an intangible, psychological, happiness factor. A combination of reduced cortisol and positive beliefs about eating perhaps. What do you think?