Day 37: My kids ate nothing today until I came home from work!How skinny people eat.
Can you imagine? I left cereal and fruit on the kitchen table for the kids before I left for work. I was gone for 10 hours and they ate nothing else until I got home and they weren't even starving. These are not small children. They will be driving soon.
They do not care about food and will eat if it is in front of them if they like it. Food is almost always left on the plate. Even desserts! They do not live by the clean plate rule. They are alien children.
They eat when they are hungry and very slowly. It is not important to them. They could care less. One will eat anything and the other is picky. They are both skinny, skinny, skinny.
I make sure I eat regularly and not go too long without a healthy meal or snack or else I run the risk of overeating later. My body is fine tuned to good foods and reacts immediately to foods that are not healthy for me. I plan and portion. Every pound I lose is work and it is coming off slowly. I never leave food on my plate and forget that trick. Exercising has helped me eat less. I am not as hungry as before. I will never be skinny, skinny, skinny or if I am, it will take a long, long time. This is not an eight week quick fix. This is behavior mod to be more like my kids. Live and learn.