I lost 3lbs!!

I'm feeling rather pleased with myself. It's getting harder to stick to healthy eating (or should I say got harder) 10 months in. My early enthusiasm and drive was all used up. But I did it. And I embraced hunger too. I know people say you don't have to be hungry to lose weight, and I'd agree with that, but at the same time, its actually good to allow yourself to experience hunger from time to time ... I hadn't for years before I started this diet in January!!

So Yay!!! Hopefully this is that start of me being back on a diet, and long may it continue :)

I've just realised ...

that to get to the "healthy" BMI of 25, I'd actually have to lose 8 stone in total rather than the planned 6. Seeing as I'm struggling to get past 3 stone at the moment, 8 stone seems rather overly ambitious!! Plus I can't imagine there'd be anything left of me at that weight! Well actually that's not true. 8 stone would take me to 10st 12 and I can actually remember being 10st 10 in my teens, although maybe I'm a little taller now? Maybe not. I'm leaving my target at 6 stone for now, but it's given me food for thought.

And I resisted the urge to eat more the other day. Hopefully I'm on track for a loss this week. :D

Hungry's good, right?

I'm just trying to beat it into my thick skull that being hungry is good. I've really tried to get back to being good on my diet and I've had some successes. A large bag of onion rings (the maize snacks) over the weekend wasn't one of them. But today I've had my cereal for breakfast, a big salad with Feta cheese(light) and 2 plums so far but I'm still hungry. So, do I attack my emergency Ryvita to avoid a crisis moment at the vending machine, or do I keep telling myself ... "hungry is good, hungry is good, hungry is good ..." ??