Olive Garden or the Garden of Eden?

 

Weight: 268.3
lbs. lost= 6.7  (my starting weight a few weeks ago was 275)

Well, something weird or wonderful is happening. In the last week that I haven't consumed caffeine nor sugar, and have done vegetable juicing each day and limited my food intake to just once a day, I'm simply not hungry. There is no doubt in my mind that filling up on Mean Green Monster juices (kale, cucumber, celery, broccoli, lemon and an apple) is filling up my body with such potent nutrition that evidently it satiates me and I'm not hungry.

I mean, I get hungry, but only about twice a day. It is just SOOOOO WEIRD. But I like weird. I'm okay with this kind of weird. All my life I have battled cravings that are so intense, that I literally think about food all the time-- mostly junk food and sugary foods. This confirms my belief even more that sugar and processed foods are addictive in nature. The more you eat, the more you want to eat.

At any rate, my mom and dad were down here this weekend. I've eaten a few things that I really didn't want to eat-- like pizza. But I kept my portions small. But tonight we went to Olive Garden. Prior to Olive Garden tonight, I had raw apple pie and blackberries for breakfast, and a mean green juice for lunch. At Olive Garden it struck me that there really aren't any healthy foods at Olive Garden. Atleast not what I want to eat. The salad-- while delicious, consists mostly of iceberg lettuce which has minimal nutrients in it; croutons that are processed, and who only knows how much oil and sugar in the dressing. The warm, melt-in-your-mouth breadsticks are pure white flour, which is a big no-no in my book, since my goal is to avoid sugar and flour. Honestly after tonight's breadsticks, I'm now ready to commit to "no flour" as a committment, not just a goal.  I ordered Eggplant Parmesan, and while I didn't eat the spaghetti that came with it, I knew full well that the eggplant was fried, and not my friend. Bless!

Eating out is losing its appeal. I have felt better in the last few days than I've felt in so long, and I really want it to continue. I really do not want to eat sugar, flour or processed, or fried foods. I'm not going to. I'm looking forward to starting over tomorrow with juicing and green smoothies only for a few days. Yeah!