One of the best things about Eat Stop Eat is that it allows you to really take control of how you eat.
After all, once you have gone without food for 24 hours a couple of times, you really start to get a feel for the real reasons behind why you eat, what you eat and when you eat.
Often times, hunger isn’t one of these reasons. Habit and emotional connection are usually the culprit.
If you take this new found wisdom, you can create a big difference in the way you eat by making SMALL changes.
Take coffee for instance.
One of the first things I noticed when I started fasting was how much I loved my coffee with cream and sugar (I put up with black coffee during my fasts, but I DEFINITELY don’t like it)
Fasting also made me realize just how often I craved coffee…typically drinking 2-3 cups per day.
I realized very quickly that this was the perfect opportunity to make SMALL CHANGES for BIG RESULTS.
My typical coffee was (at the time) was an extra large with two cream, two sugar – which contains about 280 calories.
I slowly weaned myself down to a large coffee with 1 sugar and 1 cream, which contained about 110 calories.
After about a week of drinking large coffees with 1 sugar and 1 cream I realized I wasn’t enjoying my coffee nearly as much as I used to, so I switched to 2 cream, 1 sugar..about 180 calories.
This did the trick.
So, thanks to one small change I reduced my coffee calorie intake by 100 Calories, 2 to 3 times per day, saving myself between 1,400 to 2,100 Calories per week without cutting out any of my favorite foods.
In my opinion this is much better than simply trying to stop drinking coffee all together. After all, I enjoy my coffee, so this would have been punishment, and weight loss and eating healthy should NEVER be about self-punishment. Plus, I know that I would have lasted about 3 days without coffee before going back to my old habits, so it would have been futile punishment at that.
Small changes, big results.
BP
PS- the other day I tried a coffee with 2 cream, 2 sugar (for old time’s sake)..I can honestly tell you I like my coffee with 2 cream 1 sugar better!
