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I feel like I don't have much to report, but figured I'd kind of check in anyway. My weight is steady since my last weigh in, and I'm doing fine on the diet. I feel like I'm kind of in phase 3... or at least pretty close to being phase 3. So, I'm allowing myself to have a few bites of my kids' ice cream cones when we go out and have had an occasional mixed drink. Those things are pretty occasional, though, not part of my daily life like they were pre-SBD.
The biggest thing I notice about being on this diet is that it has changed the way I think about food. I think about food more often, in some ways, because I'm very conscious about what I'm eating and how much of it. But, in another way I think about food less because I find that I don't really care about it that much any more. I don't eat to comfort myself or out of habit as much anymore, and I am not that interested in making really superb/outlandish/super yummy dinners.
When I first started the diet I was really concerned with making a variety of kinds of meals and making sure they are really yummy, because having yummy food was a really important thing. This might be kind of sad in a way, but now it's more like I eat just for sustenance --and then have an occasional treat-- rather than thinking that each dinner has to be an exciting and wonderful thing. (This is really different from my family background.) I guess the variety or fanciness of the food has less meaning to me than it used to. I still eat well, don't get me wrong. But, if I have the same kind of fresh veggies and low fat meat etc. for dinner several days in a row it doesn't bother me like it used to.
I suppose my food is more boring because of that... probably a bit more innovation would be good. LOL
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