Where Has My Appetite Gone!?

Where has my appetite gone? I never taught I could go a day and only eat 1600 calories when I started this journey. But now I don't think I really need that many. I never thought I'd say that but after changing the foods I eat and exercising every day my appetite has went way down.

When I started this journey just a week and a half ago I used all my calories plus my exercise calories for the day and still felt hungry. Yesterday there was no way I could have used all my exercise calories without stuffing myself so I didn't use them.

Today Jimmy and I went out to eat as a late Valentines dinner because he works until five and our babysitter(my in-laws) don't like to watch them that late. This was my Valentines gift to him so he got to choose where he wanted to go. His favorite place to eat is a local restaurant so I couldn't just go to a website and figure out the calories. I had to add up everything that is in the meal I always get which I did last night then I divided it in half because I planned on only eating half and saving the rest for later. I planned my whole day around this meal so I didn't go over my calories today. When we got our order I asked for a take out box and divided the meal in half before I started eating. I use to eat the whole meal plus a bunch of chips before that. I ate 12 chips and the half of the meal that was still left on the plate and soon realized it was way to much. I was so full, I mean the Thanksgiving day full.

It's been two and a half hours since I ate and I'm still full. I need to exercise but I can't exercise on a full stomach so I'm waiting a little long before I try to. I'm going to divide my left overs in half and the next time we go there Jimmy and I are going to split the meal. Then I'm going to divide my potion in half so I'll only be eating 1/4 of the meal and that will be plenty.

I'm not complaining, in fact I couldn't be happier with losing my appetite. It will make this journey easier and I didn't know it was so simple to retrain your appetite. I don't plan on using any of my exercise calories from today and I still have 106 calories from my 1550 to have a small snack later. This is a life change not a diet and I honestly feel like I could do this for the rest of my life! Any other time I've lost weight I couldn't say that because I was just waiting for the day I could eat normal again but now I feel like I am eating normal. MY NEW NORMAL!