60 days on the Bright Line Eating Plan. 16 pounds released. 39% of the way towards my goal. 25 pounds to go!
The scale is only one measurement of the changes my body is making. The more important ones include 60 days with no flour, no sugar and no processed foods in my body. I am noticing a significant decrease in brain fog and mood swings. Few of the clothes I was wearing when I started fit now. Down two sizes in pants and one size in shirts.
I like knowing what I am going to eat each day. I have broken my bad habit of skipping meals and then eating what ever I could put my hands on. I no longer snack between meals. Grocery shopping is much easier as I buy the same things every week. Eating out is getting easier but I still prefer to eat at home. Cravings have gone away. My taste buds continue to evolve and I am enjoying trying new to me vegetables and expanding what I like. My BMI has dropped to below the overweight category.
Still feeling like this is a plan I can stay on the rest of my life. When I get to goal weight I will add more food, one additional food at a time each week until I find the quantity that will maintain my weight at goal. After I stabilize my weight and no longer need to add food I then start adding in exercise. It may be that I will need to add food to compensate for the additional exercise I add in.
If I continue losing as I have been I should reach goal weight some time this summer and by fall be eating the way I will the rest of my life. Looking forward to the freedom that will bring to me.
I haven’t broken my Bright Lines yet. I did take some medication one day that had sugar in it and learned I don’t want to use that medication again. Other than that I have had no flour, no sugar, no eating between meals and I either weigh and measure every meal or use the one plate method. Still feeling a bit like an alcoholic and don’t trust myself to eat just one bite of a food not on my plan. I don’t want to fall off the wagon and go down a path not good for me.
I get hungry occasionally but have learned my stomach is not the best judge of true hunger. Usually when I get hungry I am either thirsty or upset and uneasy with something. Luckily there is always another meal coming soon and I am learning to ignore the old habit of eating when hungry. I have yet to be hungry between dinner and breakfast so I never go hungry very long.
Feeling a deep peace and contentment with life these days that I contribute to Bright Line Eating. I know the inner work I have been doing plays a big part in it too but being off flour and sugar has helped a great deal.
Grateful I found this plan and it is working for me.