Damn the Man!

The hypothetical question is, "Who do you trust?"

My hypothetical answer is, "Yourself."

The time is Thursday night. The place - my kitchen. I've got a 6 pound baked ham on my counter sitting next to my handy dandy new scale. I start carving the ham and putting it on the scale. I have the nutritional information for "Sliced, Cooked Ham" pulled up on its screen. I want us each to have 350-400 calories of ham each. I'm slicing and slicing and I have almost 2 pounds of ham on the scale and it says I have 750 calories there. It feels like a lot but I split it up between our plates and served dinner. Chris asks how much it is and I tell him and we're both in disbelief but continue eating.

A little more than half way through the ham we are both full but it is so good, we just keep eating. After dinner, I'm feeling a bit guilty for stuffing myself and decided to look online to see how many calories Fitday says that baked ham has. Fitday claims that the amount of ham we had was 950 calories each!!! I found other websites claiming anywhere from 450-900 calories!

At first I was really upset that the brand new scale that I paid so much money for had incorrect information. Damn the man! Then the question popped into my head. Who are you supposed to trust? There are just too many sources of information! I thought about this for awhile, the whole time being angry.

I came to the realization that we just need to trust ourselves. If it looks like too much food, it probably is. If it looks loaded with calories, it probably is. When you stomach is full, you should stop eating.

This is not something that comes easily to me. I like to eat - that's why I am in the situation I'm in. Learning to stop eating when I am full is something I've really been struggling with since we started the challenge. It is not as hard as it used to be - I get full quicker now but I still enjoy that satisfyingly full feeling.

Chris has a work associate who had gastic bypass surgery and his takeaway on the experience was this, "Fixing your body is the easy part. Fixing your head is what's most difficult."