Eat to live, not live to eat!

I went for my nightly walk with my husband and I told him that I get so bored with eating. It used to be such an event, now I just have to make sure I'm getting in enough protein and once my 30 min after my meal is up, water water water. It really is a new way of life and I have found that I have so much more time to do the other things in my life that I thought I didn't have the time for. I knit him a new winter hat in one day. I'm really coming to terms with the dependance that I had on food in the past. It isn't all that exciting to me anymore. It is quite liberating!! My mind is catching up with a lot of my 'healthy' friends. Anyone else feeling the same way? Kell

Well at first all I could think about was food. not so much the food I left behind but eating in general. Making sure I ate this, at this time, etc.... Now I am at the point were I am not focusing on food and I am now thinking about other things. I know I say this a lot but it reminds me of when I first had my daughter. When she was a newborn I felt like I couldn't go any where or go out long because I might forget something or run out of something. As she got older it got easier to know what I needed and know what I had to bring with me. Same goes for this new style of eating. I know now what I can eat, what I can tolerate. So I am not obsessing over it as much the extra time I have is spent with my almost 2 year old but I wouldn't have it any other way. Shannon