A Week of Eating Consciously, Day 3

For "parameters" see this post.

Breakfast: 9:30 a.m.

• ravenous, but also feeling an urge to scale binge; beat the urge
• ate the full portion of breakfast slowly; still bored silly--must take a picture of the kitchen clock and post it; managed to stretch out eating a modest bowl of porridge over 6 whole minutes; thought longingly of the crossword puzzle but stayed away
• felt about 80% full but had a glass of water and my morning vitamins
• did the crossword (not completely, it's tough)
• felt fairly emotionally satisfied

Snack: 11:30 a.m.

• ravenous
• quick snack since I was going out for lunch with my cousin. Why eat now? In order to avoid devouring a shoe (or something even less healthy) in the next hour or so.
  
• ate the snack quickly, but still, one piece at a time.
• felt fine

Lunch: 1:15 p.m.

• did the right thing by having a snack, wouldn't have been able to survive until lunch, otherwise
• hungry, but not ravenous
• ate slowly since we were also chatting away; left some of main course on plate and enjoyed a small but scrumptious dessert
• happy all 'round

Supper: 7:15 p.m.

• no afternoon snack (hanging out with my cousin), so ravenous by about 5:45 p.m.
• made a great, very healthy supper
• ate with hubby and one son at the table--they were mostly reading the paper, I managed to stay focused on the food
• speed: quicker than I'd like
• ate complete, reasonable portion, plus a few pieces of mango for dessert
• felt really full but as I write this at 9:15 p.m., I'm starting to feel a bit peckish

Snack: 10:15 p.m.

• ate at table, took snack out of box to eat, ate pieces one at a time
• feeling bored; looked at crossword as I ate--found some solutions but didn't write them in!
  

I did not scale binge today. Truly a non-scale victory in the most literal sense of the word.