Pretty much every Friday this summer has been spent at the Artisan Market here in Floyd. I love it, and come November I know I'm going to miss it. In it's absence I will be able to pick catch up with my slightly empty Etsy shop.
This is how we get down at the Artisan Market:
By taking crazy face photos of ourselves when things get slow:
And when things get really out of hand we eat chicken curry wraps from Oddfella's:
Not the best one I've had. The chicken was tough and the pasta salad was not as dilly as I like. Is dilly even a word?
My camera died at some point in the evening, but I also consumed 3/4 of a strawberry slushy (which was basically strawberry milk), one glass of red wine, and a few more tomato crackers when we got home.
I really tried to focus on eating only when I was hungry. I didn't need, nor want the strawberry slushy. I think I would have been more content with a quarter of a chocolate chip cookie.
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Today is Saturday! Do you have any exciting plans for the day? It's beautiful here. We have a date with Home Depot after I shower and get ready to pick out paint for both of our studios. I'm redecorating/organizing my studio today, more about that here: www.beautifullayers.com.
I also have jump rope, cleaning, blogging and article writing on the schedule.
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I read somewhere once that ‘imagination is stronger than willpower’ – meaning that when you (we..) go on a diet, imagining how yummy a delicious ‘forbidden’ food item is, will always win out over the willpower not to eat it. Which is why diets are stupid and they never work!
The only time in my life I have ever lost weight (without even realising it or going through some kind of hell to get there) was when I ate when I was truly hungry and had what I truly felt like eating. And I had no panicked feelings of ‘I have to eat all these honey roasted cashew nuts now because tomorrow I’m back on my diet’ because…well..there was no diet. I had no limits and because I had no limits I didn’t immediately want to eat everything I knew I shouldn’t.
The imagination vs willpower thing really resonated with me.. it was kind of my lightbulb to stop dieting forever and ever. I feel so free, like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders (literally!). I probably weigh myself once a month these days and each month has resulted in a loss without me even trying. And that, my friend, is kind of awesome.
So I know this is a long, ranty rant type of thing.. but I guess I wanted to say that I think you’re doing exactly the right thing by taking the pressure off yourself with conventional diets and stuff. If you keep on doing what you’re doing, you will totally get to wherever it is you want to be, in the healthiest way possible and you will be infinitely happier than the poor people who obsessively watch calories and are miserable. Life is too short
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So keep up the good work and keep posting, I think your blog is fab