Day Four...

Okay. As I forget to mention my piano skills with all the new-way-of-eating hubub, let me start by saying that I am now sightreading hymns (albeit unsteadily and without a metranome) playing all four parts at once.  Thats like an embarrassing admission and a triumph all at once...

I am trying not to weigh myself too obsessively, but I started this new way of eating at 162.2.  So far it feels as though I have lost... nothing!  However, I believe I will eat this way for life because:

Main Reason:
I really believe this is the way our Creator intended for us to eat.
Other Reasons:
- I don't think about food anymore.  No cravings, no desire to eat outside of mealtimes.  At all.
- I am eating more variety now than before (sadly). Creative salads, meats, cheeses, veggies, fruit...
- I am cooking every night! Suddenly, I am taking 20-40 min to prepare dinner, and it's real food.
- Best tasting foods ever.  Hello fine aged cheeses... and kick ass salads... and REAL BUTTER

Also, I feel like I'm sticking-it-to-the-man in my own little way. Make healthy food more expensive? Fine, I'll buy the full-fat version. Carbs are money-makers-I-mean-healthy-for-you? Too bad - I reject that.  But that's not really a reason, it's more like a spiteful little jab...

AND it seems that on the real, healthy Atkins Diet, alcohol (without sugar or carbs) can be consumed in whatever quantity you want, and all that happens is you pause your weight loss. Yeah, that sounds a hell of a lot better than drinking wine ONE night and waking up with a 3-5 pound gain that never leaves.  But wine has sugars, you say?  Ah yes, but a winemaker in California discovered an all-natural process of using a natural "sweetener" found in grapes that has no sugars. The result is Slender Wine, in white red or blush for $10.99 per bottle.  I hear it's actually very good, but I don't care.  I WILL drink and enjoy Slender Wine in two weeks when I'm allowed.

And by the way, apparently Hollywood is obsessed with Slender Wine, even though it is slightly higher in calories than regular wine.  Wait, so all the famous beautifully skinny people actually care about carbs? Hmm...  :)