I thought I would list some of the foods that I was eating last week, as in a week on a diet, I wouldn't have touched half of these (except within my Atkins stint). They included:
Clotted cream, mince pies (Gordon Ramsay's brand, surely cooked by his own fair hands), many types of cheese including FRIED halloumi, Wensleydale, and Brie (I eat cheese on a daily basis, sometimes a few times a day), full cream milk, chocolate (of course, chocolate), curry, and buttered bread. Oh, and always the full fat versions of hummous rather than the 'lighter' varieties.
So while I had a panic on holiday, after the lack of mindfulness over Christmas, I've again realised that I can include all these foods in my diet when I'm hungry for them, eat until satisfied, and this week, I haven't put on weight.
Okay, so I'm the same weight - maybe a bit more - as when I started this intuitive eating approach, but my guess is that it will take time for me to get used to this new way of thinking about food before I begin to lose any weight.
My other guess that I might not actually need to lose any weight, if I can accept that I'm not a skinny bird, maybe never will be again (yes, I did hold that trophy once), but I don't have to be.
Like many women, I've always wanted to be that 'half a stone' less. And maybe now, a stone less (but I am 36!). I know from my clothes sizes, though (generally a 12), that I can still shop at Top Shop should I wish, and that's not fat.
Body acceptance - something for me to work on now I have Positive Attitude.
I'm Andrea, and am obsessed with creating fabulous food. After I managed to ditch dieting, the reason Chocolate and Beyond was born, it seemed natural to evolve my site into a foodie blog. More so since I also ditched animal produce to be vegan. Now, I love showing how inventive cruelty-free cooking can be. And sometimes I like to rant, too. I wouldn't be myself otherwise :) x 
You must be reading my mind or raiding my fridge for fried haloumi is what I have been eating all week,crumbled up into little pieces with pistachio nuts on my salad.YUMMMM
Posted by: lisa jane | January 15, 2007 at 10:20 AM
Lisa, I saw your comment on my last posting and meant to have answered that halloumi was also one of my current cheese favourites! I ate lots of it while on Atkins but didn't think it was possible outside of that regime! Nice to be 'back there' - it's so yummy.
Posted by: Andrea Wren | January 15, 2007 at 10:26 AM