Day 12 of Optifast - more than halfway there!

Oct 27, 2012

Optifast is a breeze for me now.  I'm so used to it!  I'm looking forward to being able to eat real food again after surgery, but honestly, I'm not feeling hungry anymore, and I'm not overwhelmed by cravings or urges.  Every once in a while I'll get a good craving going, but it goes away quickly, and I've learned how to distract myself.

Yesterday, after my appointment downtown, I had no cash on me and had to get some money out of a machine.  I went into a convenience store (something I've been avoiding since being on Opti).  The ATM was right in the middle of all the potato chips and junk food.  I looked at all of the junk and felt nothing.  And was fully conscious of looking at all the junk and feeling nothing and marvelling that I felt nothing.  No overwhelming urges to buy it, no heavy cravings.  I just got my money out of the machine and left, with no problems at all.  It was really strange, because before this Opti stage, I wouldn't have been able to resist grabbing one, or at least having the urge to grab one.

I got wondering - is this how "naturally thin" people feel when they walk into a store?  Do they just not really notice all the junk unless they actually went into the store wanting a snack?  Am I already starting to think like a normal eater in some small way?

What I really want these days is good food.  Scallops pan-seared to perfection on a bed of wilted greens with a few shaved almonds.  Shrimp curry made the way a friend taught me, which is extremely low fat but delicious.

I also have this urge to try experimenting with cooking things with unflavoured protein powder.  What would meatloaf be like if I used protein powder to make it stick together instead of breadcrumbs?  I don't know, but I wouldn't mind giving it a try!  I want to try Eggface's egg bites and other recipes of hers.  I want to try making soups from scratch (something I never do because it never turns out very well).

The great thing is, I'll have 6 weeks off work to recover, so maybe I'll get the energy together to experiment in the kitchen a bit, learn how to feed myself really healthy food cooked from scratch.  It's something I never bothered to do before very much, but I'm looking so forward to starting a new food and cooking life. 

I'm feeling really positive today, I guess!  This weekend has been a breeze, unlike last weekend, my first weekend on Optifast.  This stage has really made me feel confident about the future.

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