Small Slice

I wish I would just wake up with a healthy relationship to food, because I'm using a lot of brain power to mull over brown foods and green foods and complex foods and what really sounds much better is a grande latte and some peanut butter cookies.

Doesn't that sound better?

So, of course I'm not having the latte, and I'm not having the cookies and instead I'm having a salad with hummus and waiting to feel virtuous.  Once those vitamins get into my bloodstream, I'm sure I'll be Kung-Fu Fightin' in the halls.  But right now...

Why is it that when I decide to make a healthy change, I begin to behave like a spoiled six-year-old.  Lattes aren't even my problem.  And peanut butter cookies?  I can live my whole life without another.  But they start sounding good once I decide that I'm not having them.  They are today's sacrificial lambs.

I got a very nice email from Dr. Will Clower (!) who is the author of The Fat Fallacy (!!) which was my inspiration for this whole blog and lifestyle change.  He acknowledged in a very kind way that I maybe sort of misinterpreted his recommendations (Dr. Clower likes pie!  I will eat lots and lots of pie!) and that what I really need to do is focus on changing my behaviors.

Man, I've got a list as long as both arms of behaviors that could use changing.  But he meant regarding food.  Oh.  Well.

He suggested that I visit his site and see what's new - they've made some significant changes to their online program offerings.  Back when I started BigSlice, they had a 13 week program that was basically a .pdf file a week that gave you food for thought and guidance for the week, with the ultimate goal of changing your food behaviors.  My thought at the time was that 1) I don't need no stinkin' advice.  and 2) I already own the book.

We all know how well I've done on mastering what Dr. Clower suggests.  I'm down with full-fat dairy and have jettisoned faux-foods, but I'm still a long way away from where I had hoped to be.

At Fatfallacy.com, they are now offering an 8-week webcast program that is lead by an RD, which is apparently interactive and very personalized to your individual needs.  I'm not 100% sure how it works, so I'm going to check it out and ask some questions. 

The program is $120 dollars, which seems expensive at first glance.  But considering you are getting live interaction (I think) with a RD, plus they send you program materials to work from, and there are a bunch of online tools, it might be a good answer for someone who needs to have some real live human interaction to make their weight loss goals achievable.