eight. eight tips

8. I love that feeling you get when you are (presumably) losing weight. It’s a slightly empty feeling. Not gnawing hunger - I don’t like that feeling at all - but just a lightness and lack of congestion in the stomach.

I try not to eat after about 7pm. Or 8, depending on how my day is going. And I try and have the right amount to avoid feeling hungry before I go to sleep, but to feel light-of-stomach. That won’t happen if I’ve been stuffing my face all day, even if I stopped mid-afternoon, but as much as I can, I like to feel like that.

I don’t find this difficult. It would have been when I was a teenager, when it didn’t matter how full my tummy was, the idea of eating still held enormous appeal, if not compulsion. But, fortunately, I had the metabolism to match.

5 Responses

  1. I love that slightly empty feeling and must concentrate on making sure that I feel it more often as my scales are showing horrible numbers to me right now.

    Good for you losing weight. I really need to do the same.

    Debs - April 29, 2008 at 3:02 am
  2. Thanks Debs. Yes, I’m not quite game to stand on scales these days. Fitting into favourite old clothes is my guide. And feeling good.

    hilary - April 29, 2008 at 10:30 am
  3. Nicer to use the clothes as a guide for weight loss coz where we might lose weight off our hips we might gain muscle around our bum, which weighs more, so scales sometimes fib ;)

    Jayne - May 1, 2008 at 1:59 pm
  4. Exactly, Jane. They don’t always tell the full story and might deflect us from the result we are really after.

    hilary - May 2, 2008 at 12:15 pm
  5. Hey Hilary, what’s your email address?

    Email me at allconsuming72 at gmail dot com

    kim at allconsuming - May 2, 2008 at 1:59 pm

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