New food attitude
After many long years love affair with food 
i have noticed a shift in attitude that i had dreamed of and never thought possible. More simple foods that i would never have given the time of day to have become a craving. Granted it is forced-- but i feel the mind change slowly coming about. Food is become more a way to sustain life than a focus of my life.
Of course i focus on what kinds of food and the sugar and protein content. But it is more of a nutritional focus and not a delicious focus. I found myself eating a spoon full of peanut butter and relishing in it. And i crave just plain cottage cheese at times. Funny to me. Exciting to see the mental change but something that just sort of struck me tonight.
I am still trying to explain to my husband why a "night out" to me is no longer going to dinner. 
I am helping him to grasp that i am trying to change the focus of my life.
Even when i have parties now i try very hard to make dinner an after thought instead of the whole purpose to having people over. And better yet i have even asked people over for activities that involve NO FOOD AT ALL (who would have thunk it!) Amazing how little things like that help me to take the focus of the food. Just wanted to share cause i was kinda happy about the difference in attitude i am seeing and trying hard to nurture.
I still have to find something to handle the oral gratification and the hand to mouth that i am used to... and as handy as it would be i DO NOT want to start smoking. 
Thanks for letting me share my little happy thought today. Makes me happy that maybe i won't always think like a fat girl. I am a firm believer that you are what you think. Or at least we act like what we think we are.
One step closer to eating to live and not living to eat!
Paula
i have noticed a shift in attitude that i had dreamed of and never thought possible. More simple foods that i would never have given the time of day to have become a craving. Granted it is forced-- but i feel the mind change slowly coming about. Food is become more a way to sustain life than a focus of my life.
Of course i focus on what kinds of food and the sugar and protein content. But it is more of a nutritional focus and not a delicious focus. I found myself eating a spoon full of peanut butter and relishing in it. And i crave just plain cottage cheese at times. Funny to me. Exciting to see the mental change but something that just sort of struck me tonight.
I am still trying to explain to my husband why a "night out" to me is no longer going to dinner. I am helping him to grasp that i am trying to change the focus of my life.
Even when i have parties now i try very hard to make dinner an after thought instead of the whole purpose to having people over. And better yet i have even asked people over for activities that involve NO FOOD AT ALL (who would have thunk it!) Amazing how little things like that help me to take the focus of the food. Just wanted to share cause i was kinda happy about the difference in attitude i am seeing and trying hard to nurture.
I still have to find something to handle the oral gratification and the hand to mouth that i am used to... and as handy as it would be i DO NOT want to start smoking.
Thanks for letting me share my little happy thought today. Makes me happy that maybe i won't always think like a fat girl. I am a firm believer that you are what you think. Or at least we act like what we think we are.
One step closer to eating to live and not living to eat!
Paula 
I was just thinking the same thing today. I wear my timer around my neck to make sure I eat protein and drink water all day long. I am eating to be healthy not to satisfy an obsessive craving
I can relate with you and you put it in writing so eliquently (sp?)
for my hand to mouth I always have a bottle of water with me
Thanks for sharing.
joni.6.27.2005
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