What Does Abstinence Look Like?

[grabec]

I seem to be in a place where I drink coffee all morning in many forms, fraps, coffee with cream, coffee, coffee, coffee and I know it is a crutch since it helps me to not be so hungry. Without coffee I would be eating all day long. So, taking that into account I would say that abstinence for me now is eating lightly around noon and then having a salad and maybe some protein around 4:00 then nothing else. Usually I just don't make it. I have a lot of trouble in the late afternoons and evenings. That's where I am for now. Subject to change

[Alexistrophic]

I have been thinking about this a lot lately, too. For me, it's still a process of experimentation. I started out trying only not to eat in the evenings and everything else was fair game. Little by little, I starting to notice things that my body likes and doesn't like. I'm forming a meal plan of foods that work for me (mainly protein and veg) and I also find that I'm losing the taste for the foods that just aren't good on any plan (refined sugars, mostly) I have no idea how long this way of eating will last, but I'm hoping that my body will feel so good that I won't want to go back to eating for comfort.

One day at a time...