Today is weigh-in day, and – drumroll, please – I stayed the same again!
You have no idea how miraculous this is, actually. A weekend of restaurant eating, followed by a cookie-making/dinner party Monday night and homemade persimmon pudding (Oh. My. God! How delicious!) last night – sorry for the food porn, but this week of eating followed by a maintenance weigh-in illustrates so perfectly what the Fat2Fit guys talk about on their podcasts: Eating the number of calories you need – even if it looks like an outrageously high number – doesn't lead to weight gain.
I'm astonished.
I'm glad I had a couple months of closely tracking my food intake, because I now have a pretty good idea of what that number is without being obsessive about it. I think I'll try to journal a couple days a week for a while, just to keep myself honest.
In the meantime, I'm not restricting but not overindulging. I'm sampling, tasting and even (in the case of the persimmon pudding) digging in with abandon.
I'm enjoying – something I haven't done with holiday food in a very long time.
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I'm glad it's going so well! That persimmon pudding sounds delicious.
I'm not counting or tracking anything now. It's useful in some circumstances, but right now I feel like *I know* how much to eat, the challenge is in *doing* it.
Hooray for enjoying holiday foods!
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