JM One - Craving Zero
Things have been going great for me over the past month and a half or so. I’m finally seeing weight loss, I’m feeling better about myself, I’m actually happy to exercise… So far, so good.
However, last night I was reminded that not all my demons have been so easily vanquished.
Though I have ventured into the realm of ‘real food’ (non-meal replacement, non-veggies, non-fruit type food) on occasion, I have always kept it bread/rice/pasta/etc free and very light. Mainly meaning I had mostly grilled fish when I strayed. This has been what I feel is a big factor in my sticking with meal replacement.
But last night was the first really hard night for me.
I’m not sure if it was because of time of month coming up (I’ve been known to have HUGE meat cravings the week before TOM) or just some weird thing, but I told my husband all I wanted was a lamb souvlaki or a burger. (We’re talking good quality, good ingredients Australian burger – not fast food crap.) We sat at the pub and all I could talk about for fifteen minutes was souvlaki.
I consider it a victory that the thought was just to have something ‘real’ (which was pretty much any combination of meat and bread that I could think of) instead of wanting to quit the diet entirely. In fact, quitting the diet never entered my mind.
I should change the title to “JM Two”.
In the end, I didn’t have any souvlaki. We got caught up with trivia night at the pub, and we were having so much fun that I wanted to stay there rather than run off an indulge my cravings.
And today? I still kind of want some meat, but it’s not that ‘GIMME MEAT’ type of craving anymore.
Phew. Now only if I could combat every craving with random trivia.
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:14 pm
I know what you mean with a proper burger - we have them too and I eat one on occasion. And souvlaki - yum!
Well done on beating the cravings. When you’ve done it once, you give yourself such a confidence boost. Now you know you can!
July 5th, 2009 at 12:42 am
Yum indeed.
Yeah, I’m not sure why the craving hit so hard, but I am proud that I dealt with it.