Saturday, May 14, 2016
Positive cascade
Last November's windstorm, followed by a week of shivery darkness, left me with a stark need for coziness and comfort. After losing about 6 pounds in the previous year, I started eating more and gained the weight back. Recently I decided to resume the losing. Found that I could eliminate 'second breakfast' without any trouble. Start first breakfast later and endure the hungry feeling.
This morning the growling was a bit too loud just before a store walk, so I gobbled a piece of bread to keep the stomach busy. The bread left a nasty day-long aftertaste, which is exactly the same aftertaste I'd had during the power outage.
Aha! I had ass-u-me-d that the aftertaste was from food spoiled by the warm refrigerator. Nope. Today's bread is new, has never been in the fridge. It's just bad bread. Mold or yeast or chemicals.
So: Normally my midday meal is an omelet with toast, formed as egg sandwiches instead of an omelet. Because the bread is unusable today, I left off the toast and made the omelet in proper form. Nice! One more calorie-generating item removed from daily diet and shopping list. No harm done.
This is sort of like the positive cascade that happens when you switch from debt to saving. One paid-off debt allows the next paid-off debt. One removed food item leads to another removed food item. Obviously there's a limit to the removal, and I've probably hit the limit. Stick to this pattern for a while and see if the scale starts turning downward again.
Update 6/1: After a month of eating less, I've taken off 4 of the 6 pounds gained since November. Astonishing! Eating less is One Weird Trick to lose weight! Whoda thunk it? Maybe I should patent this unprecedented idea!
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