I Need More Fiber

• When I get the growl, I've been eating a lot of fried foods, fried chicken, fried corn nuggets, honey butter biscuits, candy, soda, lemonade, soda, fried chicken, soda, pizza, soda, etc. 
• I haven't had a vegetable in almost two months. 
• No wonder I am, shall I say, "blocked"
• I probably should be drinking a bit more water too
• Everything is permissible, but not everything is beneficial
• Yesterday morning, well, at noon, when I got the growl, here are some "higher fiber" options I chose:

Collard greens

Red Onion

2 egg whites, 1 yolk

1 frozen, mini-taco from Trader Joes

1/8 of a plantain that I cooked in coconut oil

Here's what my cooked food looked like on my small portion plate

I wanted you to see the size of my plate compared to a regular sized "healthy portions" plate

On the Border

It's so nice to be able to eat WHATEVER I want when I'm hungry. That is such a blessing from God.

Normally, I would have consumed two or three baskets of chips, a whole fried Chimichanga, 2 large margaritas and an order of beef Empanadas.

But tonight, my dinner was just:

3 tortilla chips, broken up like Gwen says to do
1 Empanada
A glass of pineapple juice (only drank a few sips between bites)

I prayed before I ate and asked God to slow me down so I would not eat too quickly and that I would stop when satisfied. 

 I took 3 chips from the basket

 I broke each chip into small pieces, dipped them in salsa, put a bit of salt on each one and enjoyed my 3 chips. 

My order of empandas came out, I picked out the prettiest one and ate it. I was satisfied when I was done and knew that I didn't need to eat anymore. 

Asked for a "to go" box for the remaining 4 to eat another one when the next hunger hits. Also took my juice out in a "to go" cup. 

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Today's Food

10:00AM: 1 cup of Korean Pho today for breakfast with 2 TBS of white rice

2:00PM: 1 large Nectarine and 1/2 of a dinner roll

6:00PM: On the Border

I spent hours watching All Access and did some bible reading and worked in my Weigh Down Revolution Workbook. 

Now, I'm heading out to the movies. Goodnight!! 

Today's Food

So, Gwen says that the heavier you are, the LESS often your body will get hungry because it knows it has LOTS of fat to burn and it may get hungry once, maybe twice per day. She is correct. At 340 pounds, I find that I may get TRULY hungry, once, maybe twice per day.

I have been drinking protein shakes with fruit for my first meal of the day because I found a protein shake that I love (long time ago) and because I am lazy and it's easy to just throw almond milk, bananas and protein powder in my Nutribullet.

For dinner, I eat whatever the heck I want, but ONLY enough to take away the growl. Here is what I consumed today:

1.  2:00pm is when hunger first hit: 1 Protein shake: 25 grams of protein powder scoop, 1/2 banana, 1 cup almond milk, 1 cup water. With 1/2 peach and 2 chile spiced mango slices from Trader Joe's
2. 8:30pm is when hunger hit again: 1/2 of a quesadilla half (shown below) - some random quesadilla from Trader Joe's
3. It is 9:24pm right now and I feel the growl coming on again. I will probably eat the other 1/2 before going to bed or watching some t.v. 

HOW CAN YOU SURVIVE ON SO LITTLE FOOD? 

 Exactly what I thought, but it takes so little to actually satisfy me. I've been overfeeding myself for years!! 

Update #1: Full growl right now at 9:29pm and I just ate the little left over portion on my plate above. I will sit for a bit and see if the growl comes back and then will take a few bites of the other 1/2. I will eat slowly to make sure to not eat past satisfaction. I don't like feeling stuffed.

Update #2: I was VERY hungry and ended up eating the other 1/2 like I said I would. 

Weigh Down (Re-start)

So, one of the main reasons I wanted to create this blog is to show people the size of plates and spoons I am using based on Gwen's recommendations. I also want to show you all my sample portion sizes!!

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SAMPLE PORTION SIZES

 Breakfast: Protein shake with strawberries, raspberries and cherries.

 Lunch: 2 Mango slices from Trader Joe's

Dinner and Dessert: Salmon, Cream Cheese on Dinner Roll half
Dessert: 1/4 cup of Frozen Yogurt

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2 Breakfast: Strawberry protein shake, 1 cup of almond milk, 1 cup of strawberries and banana

 Lunch: 1/2 dinner roll, 2 tbs of almond butter

Dinner: Panda Express Chow Mien and Honey Walnut Shrimp

Left - Full portion / Right - My small portion

 Dessert: I was hungry enough to eat only one shortbread cookie after my dinner. I sat in Starbucks for almost 3 hours and got hungry again, so I ate this other one. SOOO YUMMY!!

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AFTER I GOT HOME LAST NIGHT, I FAILED A DESERT OF TESTING TEST. 

Doritos - True Hunger when I ate these
Panda Express - True Hunger when I started but NOT when I finished. I felt stuffed.

OLD WAY OF THINKING: "Well, since I've blown it, I might as well finish it all!!"

Fortune Cookie: 100% Disobedient eating
M&Ms: 100% Disobedient eating
Mango Slices: 100% Disobedient eating of 4 small slices

I no longer need to purchase food to eat later when I am hungry. That's why I had the M&Ms in the house, but that set me up for failure.