I have just realized a very significant positive change in my behavior!
This past week was extremely stressful for me at work (it was the week from h#ll). That's why I wasn't around much....limited time, and when I came home I wanted to just keep to myself and ruminate.
I am an emotional eater. My normal, life-long response to stress, anger, frustration, sadness, guilt, etc, has been to go for the comfort food (which has always been carbohydrates in some form or another).
This past week, I didn't crave or want or need the food. In fact, I experienced just the opposite! I had very little appetite, and had to actually force myself to eat each day. I have been tracking my food on fitday, and for several days last week I had to struggle to get my total caloric intake up to 800 calories. (That should be reflected on the scale when I weigh tomorrow....I actually did step on the scale this morning, but since Monday is my official weigh-in day, I'll wait until then to log my release.)
So I've been thinking about what brought about this paradigm change. It could be that I was simply so stressed that I surpassed my need for comfort food (a higher level of "stressdom"), but I really don't think that's it. I think that I am finally learning to think and react like a thin person would. I'm learning that I control myself and my eating, and I'm not letting the food control me. Remember when we talked about E+R=O? I think I've been putting that concept to work in my day to day life so much lately that it's now becoming a habit or way of life for me, and I react more appropriatetly now to events without even having to consciously think about it.
The desire to become a thin person has now become stronger in me than the desire to eat food that is not healthy for me....the desire is strong enough to overcome even the most powerful old habits and reactions.
I will succeed!!!!!!!
A paradigm shift
For you
: since that is what he is all about--changing attitudes and mind set. 
