#2 Eating what you want / a summary

Today I have some time. Between writing random stuff about the joy of having left another couple pounds along the way or writing another rule, I decided the rule would have been less inconclusive. I hope to manage to be concise without forgetting anything.

Therefore, here’s the second, wonderful rule: What to eat [everything!]

Notice: start reading and following this rule only after you’ve used the first for at least a few day, or even better a week. It’s easier to assimilate the concepts one at a time.

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How to /

1 • Before eating, during the meals or between meals, drink 1 or 2 glasses of water and wait. Especially if you’re between meals, this helps recognizing if you were really hungry or just thirsty (the signals sometimes get mixed), or even if it was a nervous hunger. In that case a glass of water and breathing help you to calm down. 

2 • You can eat anything you want to eat. Except obviously in case of allergies, spoiled foods, with dubious ingredients or anything that common sense advises against (like a light bulb).

White 74

I like the idea of starting from white.

New page, new chance. No room for preconceptions, ideas hammered into too-young skulls or biblical apples. No original sin to drag along.

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The word Diet accompanied me for a long part of my life: from about 10 minutes after the word Fat was connected to my person [A/N: by my mother]. Shorter or longer , cleansing and flagellating diets: the mere sound of diet had, more often than not, the power to cause me so much anxiety that I would eat more as a reflex.

And that’s when… enough. White. No more fear. Diet doesn’t mean anything any more.
I started to look around, articulate my thoughts and look into my head for an answer. And after 2 weeks of zero diet the scale mark's negative, mood mark's positive. This way seems the right one, and a couple of challenges have already been overcome with success and great satisfaction.

Down the road, I see her. The me of a few months ahead, and I already feel her reflection upon me. Thin, yes, but above all, smiling…

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