MindLESS Eaters

Guess what?!

Today I am calling you out, due to some recent knowledge I acquired through my own acnoledgement today. I think you should make a plan for tomorow of exactly what you are going to eat, and make a schedule of it. So, like me, eat every 2.5 hours and have it scheduled so there is no room for error in your "food day." Write it down.

I promise you that if you do this you will realize two things.
1. You eat all day long.
2. You let food cue your hunger, and not hunger cue your hunger.
oh ya and 3. You aren't hungry every time you eat.

So today, if I were not on a scheduled meal plan and time schedule this is what I would have added to my consumption and it is only 2pm.

breakfast:bites of kids honey bunches of oats. left over banana (1/2) baby didn't eat.
cake pop when I opened fridge to put milk away
rice cake when I put cereal away

cookie when I stopped at Maverick to get soda (oh ya, defintily had another one or two a those even though I still haven't hit 127)
(but next week Big Jon said it is gone so ya, I am drinking it this week yo!)

Atleast 2 oreos from 4 year olds little baggie, atleast 5 nutter butters out of 2 year olds.

taco with hubby at lunch, extra cheese when I did the dishes

bite of cheese tortilla and atleast 2 strawberry's of 4 year olds. Atleast 2 spoonfulls of whipped cream.

cake pop when 4 year old had one.

(please do not mind my kids have had a lot of crap today. We are recovering from bithday still.)

Dude. Do you understand that I am NOT hungry? My current meal plan leaves me more than satisfied. I do not feel a hunger pain. These are just random thoughts I have as I go through out my day that I KNOW I WOULD have eaten had a not been on a plan.

I really do wonder how many extra calories that would equal. I don't want to figure it out, too lazy. But more than I should have for a day FOR SURE.

A facebook girl I follow, the fighter diet says that one shouldn't be trusted to trust their hunger cues. Rather, they should trust their schedule. I thought that was a little extreme....

Until today when I really thought about how many times I THOUGHT about eating something that wasn't on my plan.

That's a lot.

How many times a day do you think or eat something that you aren't hungry for, or doesn't even taste good. I have talked with people who have said that they have actually eaten and 5 seconds later when asked what they had didn't remember.

Not good. Not good at all. I am learning. Teach yourself too. Try this out tomorow and tell me how it goes.