Feeling Better

Hi All,
   I'm back and feeling better. It doesn't seem like a lot to take off 2 day's but when you don't feel well it's a ton.
The last 4 day's haven't been easy. For the most part I really didn't eat much but toast (whole wheat), tea and some soup. Most of the time I felt like I was starving. Tuesday night I did go overboard. I was so hungry I could eat my own arm (maybe not my own arm but someones). instead of the usual toast and tea I had 2 large plates of spaghetti. What a mistake, I spent the rest of the evening paying for it along with most of the overnight. It's not like I don't know any better. This isn't the first time I've been sick and done the exact same thing. It must be like everything else we do, we fall back into those comfortable habits all the time. This is why I'm calling this whole process a life style change and no just a diet. Soon or later I'm going to want to fall back into those old habits of mine. As this week proved to me (even though I was sick), their are factors that effect us and drive us back into our old comfort zones. We need to recognize the patterns and avoid or change them. Recognition is the key to this process. All be it a very difficult one. This week because i was under the weather I didn't recognize the behavior until it was to late. We like to think that we will recognize all of these factors at the beginning. This is not true, as I have begun to figure out. We start with a plan, we know what we want to accomplish and we think that we have planned for all contingencies. Not true, like every thing in live we can't know all the challenges on the road ahead. If we didn't when ever we came to that fork in the road we would have always taken the right path. Did you always take the right path, make the right decision or have you had to make corrections along the way? I know that I haven't been that lucky to always make the right choices. We need to keep are eyes open and take of the autopilot. Just because we think we know what we are doing doesn't mean we now what all the obstacles will be.

    I'm not sure how to take this week cause I don't know what the end result will be yet on Sunday. If I've lost any additional weight is it a good thing or a bad thing. I mean I spent most of the week starving. If I gain weight, would that be normal for someone who hasn't eaten most of the week and then started back up again. How does the body react to something like that. Does it know that you were sick and progress as it should or does it take what ever it can to store fat because it doesn't know when the next real meal is coming. O.K. I know that I was sick, I know that the body knows that it was sick because it was fighting of the illness inside. It's those instinctual reactions that we and are bodies make I'm not sure about. The best example I can think of is the reaction of flight or fight. We see things happening around us and most people make an immediate decision to run or stay and fight. Let me put it this way, I'm in the house one night and wake up to it on fire. My instinct without thinking is to run, run my ass off and get out of there. On the other hand the fire department shows up and they are trained to control their natural emotions and the situation and run into the fire. It's a bit of an extreme example I know but I wonder if that is the same process with our bodies. The body does make all kinds of decisions that we never even think about consciencely. I guess at this point I'm over thinking it because I don't know what to expect this Sunday when I step on that scale fr the third time. I should probably take my own advice and wait for the results of the week and then make my plan for next week from that point on. I'll leave you with those thoughts for today, so

Have a good one, keep strong and don't let little setbacks keep you from you goals!

Thanx,
Looper