Hunger management

[avram]

I’m back down to 276.5 today, pretty much where I was before my Passover weight gain. I’d feared it would take me another week to work it off.

A lot of this stuff is just becoming aware of my own habits and counter-acting them. For example, I had breakfast about 45 minutes ago — scrambled eggs with cheese and onions (I liberated one of the Passover onions for the freedom-loving peoples of Hommetzia, what with Passover ending in a few hours) — and afterwards I was still a bit hungry. I know that it takes ten-to-fifteen minutes for the stomach to get around to telling the brain “Hey, I’m full here”, so I held off eating anything else for a bit. Cleaned the dishes, headed back upstairs to finish ripping the four-disk Cowboy Bebop soundtrack set I picked up at Anime Expo last summer. (Also, swapping email with mamishka, in which I wrote a very short piece of Cowboy Bebop fan fic.)

It’s 45 minutes later now, and I’m still a bit hungry. Time to have a banana or something, because I want to do laundry, and I know if I do that while I’m hungry, I’ll wind up having a slice of pizza or a cheesesteak sandwich or something.